I was searching internet this week and came across an interesting case of loading a boat in an ocean container for overseas shipping. I always look for any “creative” ways of shipping oversize cargo internationally and this one caught my attention.

Here’s a picture:

The boat was about 27′ long by 9′ wide and 8′ high. As someone who spent the last 10 years shipping boats, cars, trucks & equipment overseas I know that boat with such dimensions can’t fit inside the ocean container. It’s just too wide. But by looking at the picture more carefully I was able to get the trick: The container is actually laying on the ground on its side (you can see the door on the ground). This makes the container big enough to accommodate this boat for international shipping.

So is this a really “creative way” of shipping boats overseas or very risky way that can cause damages and financial losses to a customer?

The first problem is that container will have to be turned back to the original position for international transport. So the boat inside the container will be sitting on its side. I don’t care how tight you secure it inside there’s a very good chance that the side of the boat will get scraped and possibly cracked. Repairing a crack in the hull of the boat is expensive.

The second problem in unloading. Once the boat gets to the final destination overseas it will have to be placed again on the side which will require a crane. Not a lot of ports are equipped to do this plus hiring a crane is quite costly.

Here’s how the boat looked once it was completely inside the container:

There’s a good reason why the international boat shipping company decided to undertake such a risk: cost. International shipping is very competitive and customers are very price-sensitive. A shipping company with the lowest bid would normally get the job. And the truth is shipping a boat of this size overseas will require employing roll-on roll-off vessel or a flat rack container.

I found more information about this international boat shipment later on at one of the online shipping forums. Apparently the customer paid about $7,000 to ship it from USA to somewhere in South Eastern Europe. The cost to ship this boat via roll-on roll-off or flat rack container would have been around $12,000. So savings on the overseas shipping cost for the customer were substantial. However, the customer wasn’t happy… Why? Well, the boat got badly damaged (surprise, surprise!). Plus the container got damaged as well (probably due to the flipping it on the side). Now the customer in Europe has a damaged boat plus the ocean carrier is asking to pay for the damages of the container. So how much money did he really save in the end?

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