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Question about shipping lingo

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SaltyNuts

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I am trying to buy, just call it fertilizer, from China. As far as the quantity, they said:

It can load 25MT/20FCL with pallet

Can anyone translate that to speak I can understand LOL?

Thanks!
 
I asked if I could buy 1 ton, they said no, they said I had to buy a whole container, I asked how many tons in a container, then they sent the above cryptic thing.

Thanks!
 
You are the crazy one that wants to buy one metric tonne of fertelizer from China. One cubic yard of 12-51-10 is about 724KGs. Why would they ship you one metric tonne? Just order a cubic yard from local lawn companies.
 
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sdifox said:
20 foot container. It irks me.
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they are telling you what they can pack in a single TEU ( twenty foot equivalent unit) pretty standard on international shipping. TEU is used everywhere on earth.

the slash is "per" so 25 mt per TEU and you can order by the TEU usually i want 100 TEU full of fertilizer. or i need 20 teu of space from Houston to Darwin

the bureau veritas tag on my 40 ft Hicube in my front yard is all in metric though.

I worked offshore, over seas. shipped lots of TEU's places.
 
herm0016 said:
they are telling you what they can pack in a single TEU ( twenty foot equivalent unit) pretty standard on international shipping. TEU is used everywhere on earth.

the slash is "per" so 25 mt per TEU and you can order by the TEU usually i want 100 TEU full of fertilizer. or i need 20 teu of space from Houston to Darwin

the bureau veritas tag on my 40 ft Hicube in my front yard is all in metric though.

I worked offshore, over seas. shipped lots of TEU's places.
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20' and 40' foot containers are de facto standards but they are non metric, this irks me.
 
herm0016 said:
what's mixed? they provided the metric and we converted it?
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herm0016 said:
they are telling you what they can pack in a single TEU ( twenty foot equivalent unit) pretty standard on international shipping. TEU is used everywhere on earth.

the slash is "per" so 25 mt per TEU and you can order by the TEU usually i want 100 TEU full of fertilizer. or i need 20 teu of space from Houston to Darwin

the bureau veritas tag on my 40 ft Hicube in my front yard is all in metric though.

I worked offshore, over seas. shipped lots of TEU's places.
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