I would guess that the rate is by volume, not by weight. David Potipcoe 519-654-7816 dpotipcoe@home.com ---------- >From: "John Gaquin" <jgaquin@ici.net> >To: "Trawler World" <trawler-world-list@samurai.com> >Subject: Re: Shipping >Date: Fri, Mar 5, 1999, 12:32 PM > >>>...I just received an estimate of $20,000 for shipping a 44' boat >weighing >>24,000 lbs. from Australia to Georgia...<< > > >Tom.... >That's about 83 cents per pound. I had thought that surface shipping >would be cheaper than that. Maybe not. As an example of what >competition can do, consider this: in early 1992 the going air cargo >rate Hong Kong to New York was a little less than $5 per pound; by >about mid 1994 competition had driven that rate down to about $1.50. > >Regards, >John Gaquin >