Shipping
Shipping, CBM, and what actually drives your landed cost
The machine price is the number everyone compares. The number that decides what you pay is the volume it occupies on the ship, and we publish it on every unit.
Freight is priced on volume, not weight
Sea freight on a truck is charged on the space it takes up, measured in cubic metres and written CBM. Every unit on this site publishes its CBM figure, because on the bigger machines it moves the landed cost more than the machine itself does. Almost nobody in this trade puts that number on a public page, which is the reason we do.
The 6×4 / 8×4 example, using our own numbers
32% more volume on every leg of the journey. The 8×4 carries more, so it can still be the right buy. Compare the two on landed cost rather than on machine price, because the freight difference finds you later. Which one is actually cheaper for your job →
What CBM looks like across the catalogue
The widest machines we ship take roughly twice the space of a tractor unit. When you are ordering more than one thing, this is the table that decides how they go on the vessel and what the whole shipment costs.
- LGMG MT95H Wide-Body Mining Truck145 m³calculated
- SANY SY365H-9 Excavator131 m³calculated
- SDLG Wide-Body Mining Truck125 m³calculated
- Tonly Wide-Body Mining Truck125 m³calculated
- Sinotruk HOWO 8×4 Dump Truck102 m³
Marked calculated where the figure is derived from the printed dimensions rather than printed as a CBM in the catalogue. Every unit's CBM is on its card →
Where our stock ships from
Our stock sits in our own yard in Hebei, in northern China. We load in Tangshan City, Hebei and ship through Tianjin Port. One yard, one port, one inland leg, which is what lets us give you a total instead of a range.
That inland leg costs both money and days. Ask us for the total before you commit, and ask again if you are ordering in winter, because Hebei winters run below freezing for months and that moves preparation schedules.
Freight rates and transit times come from us, not from this page
Rates move weekly and they move by port, so any figure printed here would be out of date by the time you read it. Tell us your destination port and we will get you a current figure for a sailing we can actually book.
Whose forwarder
You can use your own forwarder or ours, whichever gives you the better rate. It is entirely your choice.
Sometimes yours is cheaper, particularly when you already move volume into your port. Check both. We would rather lose the freight margin than have you find out afterwards that you could have done better. FOB and CIF, and which to ask for →
Tell us your port
With a port, a machine and a quantity, we give you a landed cost instead of a machine price.