Heather and I build these; happy to answer any questions!
-Luke
@Luke - A few years back I looked at opportunities to resolve the issue of having surplus containers stacking up largely in U.S. ports due to trade (import/export) imbalance. As you probably know, it turns out that its generally cheaper for Asian companies to abandon containers overseas and simply fabricate new ones than it is to book a return trip for an empty container. So, the continership capaciy surplus (rcord cheap shipping rates) coupled with a trade imabalance has helped create a container surplus.
Given the surplus, and knowing that nobody is going to pay $2K to ship an empty container, I would think you could get a much lower cost per unit than $2K. Is there no longer a surplus?
2k is delivered to my door. Definitely still a surplus, but they're worth something as scrap: prices fluctuate directly with steel's scrap price.
Ah, got it. Sounds like as you look to scale you could probably increase your margin by doing your own trucking.