You need 100 metric tons of paraffin wax. How do you aquire it?

  • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    2 years ago

    You can’t buy that kind of thing by just putting it in a shopping cart and checking out on some website. You have to call, work with a salesperson for a company that specializes in the product, and then place an order. They’ll send you the product and an invoice with payment instructions. This will usually be a check or wire transfer. If it’s a big enough order, you also have to work collaboratively on logistics to receive it. How far they will take it and how far you have to go get it will depend on your contract. This can be as little as “you have to pick it up from our warehouse” or as much as “we’ll get it into your warehouse” They might take it as far as the nearest rail yard and you have to organize trucks for the last mile.

  • Haus@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    You can get 24MT of corn in a 20 foot container. So step 1 is deciding whether you want 96 or 120MT. For comparison, a mid-sized container ship can carry 6000 containers.

    The Maersk Triple E class ships can carry the equivalent of 20000 20-foot containers. In reality, a significant number of those would have to be 40 footers.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Doesn’t exactly answer your question, but the folks over at Donut bought a cheap truck from China and had to deal with the logistics of getting something shipped over. I think it’d give you at least a high level idea of how to coordinate getting things put in a shipping container and getting it sent over, and then receiving it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRG0Wai4sR0

    It’s interesting seeing someone coordinate all of this, and how expensive it gets

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    … dunno what you’re planning… but usually things are done in much smaller lots. Regular but more frequent shipments.

    A ship full of wax is a lot of wax. You’d have to arrange for shipping - possibly international shipping…- and transport from the port to your warehouse etc.

    There’s a lot of overhead for something you’re probably not going to be able to use much more than a few pallets at a time anyhow.

    Assuming your making something to sell…Keep in mind there’s a lot of overhead for product you may go out of business before you can fully use.