[Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Club Mate shipment

[David Hulton]

FYI, Emmanuel said he could get us a pallet for ~$2k (800 bottles),
does this seem inline with the pricing you guys have been looking at?
How many bottles would we have to buy to get better pricing?

-David

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
<crypto.rpw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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>