I'm sorry for wasting bandwidth on this topic. I'll avoid this thread after this one posting... Once those containers have failed an inspection they are abandoned. They're not going to be re-used by any cargo company, and no forwarders are going to waste space on board their vessels to haul an un-usable container back to the states for scrap. I would expect that the people collecting the $500 or whatever amount for it are not employees of the shipping company, but in fact locals who offer to get the containers out of the way of the harbor.
At 11:26 AM 9/14/02 -0500, Stan wrote: >OK BenTee in the middle. >As for expense; there has to be some middle class working residents of >the Phillipines that can buy a $500.00 cargo container. Wouldn't you >think? |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.