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Drewbie:

Possible bonus at keeping the container at the exporter's facility is the higher security aspect of the container being loaded at an approved exporter by their staff rather than by "Dodgy Movers/Cocaine Exports Inc" at an insecure location?

Ground_Loop:
Hire a crating company with a fork lift. They show up with a flatbed trailer loaded with crate material, tools and a fork lift.  Face it, this is a business venture that is going to require an investment.  Having done exactly this I suggest you specify screw assembly as it makes break down on the other end go a lot easier.

TerraHertz:
Update.

I've signed the shipping agreement with the freight agent.
Also bought and paid for 500 of these boxes from ULine:
https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-4898/Corrugated-Boxes-200-Test/18-x-12-x-18-Corrugated-Boxes
S-4898    18 x 12 x 18"    $1.96 ea for 500    25 / 125    40  (BUNDLE/BALE QTY.    LBS./BNDL.
That's 4 pallet loads.
These fit the manuals well, AND are a pretty good fit to the container when stacked. They are also man-liftable when full. This is crucial for multiple reasons. Both at the sending end, and receiving.
I'd have preferred tougher cardboard, but nothing was available.

I have a moving company in Sacramento lined up to do the box packing and loading boxes into the shipping container.
Presently there's a tentative date for when that happens, mid next week. But it may drift due to uncertainties with getting a booking for loading to a ship.

There was quite a runaround with trying to arrange for delivery of the pallets of box flats, to the recently hired 2nd small storage unit at the storage site where the manuals are. Several problems, related to the delivery company refusing to de-paletize even one of the pallets and stack the box flat bundles on top of 2 or 3 pallets that fit on the unit floor space, the storage site refusing to dispose of the unwanted pallet, stuff about keys to the unit and needing the ID of the (random unknown) delivery driver beforehand, and blah blah blah.

Circumvented by just having the pallets delivered to the moving company. They can take them to the site in a van on the day. With the advantage that then the boxes are right there beside the loading operation, rather than way off elsewhere in the storage site.

Currently keeping the smaller (empty) 5' x 10' storage unit, for use if there are any excess boxes of manuals that don't fit in the shipping container. (That's a possibility!)  Much cheaper to keep them in the smaller unit till another form of transport can be arranged, so the lease on the big 10' x 15' foot unit can be ended asap.  (I've been paying that lease since Nov 2021.)

This whole operation, all the organization that can be screwed up by the smallest unforseen snag, terrifies me.


--- Quote from: jpanhalt on January 13, 2022, 04:49:57 pm ---I think you mean West coast of the US.  ;)

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Oops. Fixed.
As for used boxes, it would be a good idea except for Australian Customs and Quarantine inspection issues.

Brumby:
Glad it looks like you have a plan that can work.


--- Quote from: TerraHertz on January 14, 2022, 07:36:12 am ---This whole operation, all the organization that can be screwed up by the smallest unforseen snag, terrifies me.

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Yeah, that too.

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: TerraHertz on January 14, 2022, 07:36:12 am ---Update.

I've signed the shipping agreement with the freight agent.
Also bought and paid for 500 of these boxes from ULine:


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