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Deatails- Transportation

     Another personal communication by email with Taylor Murphy from Hedley Technologies explained that Protect-It® is not very dense, so a 5kg box is larger than expected (T. Murphy, personal email communication, November 24, 2015). For transportation from Canada to Nepal, a plane would not be cost effective (T. Murphy, personal email communication, November 24, 2015). Other countries that currently import Protect-It®, import by truck in the Americas and by cargo ship container overseas (T. Murphy, personal email communication, November 24, 2015). The cost per box for shipping would be lowest if a full shipping container was being shipped (T. Murphy, personal email communication, November 24, 2015). A 20-foot container holds 10 pallets of Protect-It®, each pallet containing 63 x 5kg boxes of Protect-It® (T. Murphy, personal email communication, November 24, 2015). It was also discovered that shipping to Nepal would involve land or rail transport to a North American port, then cargo ship to a south Asian port, then transport over land to Nepal (T. Murphy, personal email communication, November 24, 2015). Taylor estimated that the cost of shipping a 20-foot container to be between $2500.00 and $3000.00, plus about $1000.00 for insurance and perhaps $300.00 more for export documentation (T. Murphy, personal email communication, November 24, 2015). This works out to about $6.82 per box in shipping. The cost per box would be less if a 40-foot container was to b e shipped instead of a 20-foot container (T. Murphy, personal email communication, November 24, 2015). 

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