[Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Club Mate shipment

[Ralf-Philipp Weinmann]

Hi David, dear Noisebridgers,

a) there are two types of ISO 668 freight containers: the so-called
TEU (twenty feet equivalent unit) and the FEU (forty feet equivalent
unit) variant. The TEU variant measures 20ft x 8ft x 8.5ft (L x W x H)
and may load up to 21.75 tons, the FEU variant is twice as long and
may load up to 26.7 tons. A problem is that the container height is
not standardized, sometimes it can be as low as 1.3m, the maximum is
2.6m.

b) one bottle of Club Mate (there are two variants, the 0.5l bottle
and the 0.33l bottle, I'll be assuming the larger variant for the
moment) weighs approximately 904 grams. Thus far I was not able to
convince Loscher to fill the Mate into lighter PET bottles.

c) I have not actually seen the pallets, but the dimension of a pallet
should be approximately the same as for a crate of Club Mate. This is
40cm x 30cm x 30cm.

c) Let's assume an overhead of 25kg per pallet.

Assuming the above, we are more constrained by volume than by the
weight if the container is half-height and the other way round if we
have 2.6m height in the container. We can pack 14-16 pallets per TEU
if we assume half-height and at most 28 if it is full height (because
of weight). This also means that going FEU is pointless.

Hence a TEU will fit at least 11200 bottles but may hold up to 22400
if we're lucky. I reckon 11k bottles should be more than enough for
the first run, though. Assuming the fixed cost of USD 2900 we're
getting a fixed-cost transportation overhead of USD 0.29 per bottle if
we fill the container with 14 pallets.

Thoughts, orders?

Cheers,
RPW

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Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
CryptoLUX / Laboratory of Algorithmics and Computer Security, FSTC
University of Luxembourg
phone: +352-466645654