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Originally Posted by supafamous
I work at a place with suppliers in Vietnam and China so we book hundreds of containers each month. Our costs are about 4-5x higher now for entire containers and even then we can't get enough of them b/c a lot of containers are stuck in North America (not enough buying out of Asian to get them sent back).
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This is kind of what one of my supplier told me, unless I misunderstood him every time they get a container shipped now they have to buy the container because none available which has added huge to the shipping costs. Those costs are passed right along down the line to the consumer.
For the most part I'm able to get my steel prices held, suppliers are adding escalation but wood they won't guarantee anything more than like a week. When I'm bidding jobs that aren't starting until next year and not finishing until halfway through 2023 that's rough. I'm terrified when they want me to include any wood items, so much risk for us. Some projects I'm just refusing to include it,probably costing us jobs but oh well.
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