You skid & strap the scrap & then a forklift just loads it into the container. The steamship line have fixed rates for movement of containers with the RRs. Usually the more you guarantee the lower the rate in say a key corridor like LAX/Chic [:o)][:D][:p]
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Originally posted by daveklepper
Shipping scrap here in Florida is very good business. Just in Tampa Alone, we serve 6 scrap loaders and get 10-15 loads daily and are shipped out the same day to processors up north. We are not concerned with the revenue part. They are our customer and are in need of our services and are handled like any other customer. The empties are allocated to the customer and are switched whenever they request a pull. There have been some instances in the past when there were a shortage of gonds, but now it is cycling very well for a low cost commodity, safety issues notwithstanding.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by spbed
You skid & strap the scrap & then a forklift just loads it into the container. The steamship line have fixed rates for movement of containers with the RRs. Usually the more you guarantee the lower the rate in say a key corridor like LAX/Chic [:o)][:D][:p]
Perhaps you could do that with the cubes that come out of a compactor, but that would not work with the irregular shapes and dimensions of general scrap. Maybe if you shredded all the scrap (big, costly machine needed to do that), it might work, but only the big yards have the money needed to purchase and maintain a shredder.
Yes if they are using steamship containers I would say they would compact it as it would be most difficult unloading the container at the other end unless you have some sought of machinery to tilt it upward sort of like what you do when tarring a road. I am not in the scrap biz so it is only my opinion but if they did the same skidding procedure for used newspapers (also a very cheap commodity) I would say it sound practical to me. I would also suspect most scrap yards have compactors since much scrap moves on flatbed trucks as well.
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Originally posted by zardoz
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Originally posted by spbed