What you need to do is to figure out the true weight. Are they going to charge you by volume or weight. To ship by boat, even in a consolidated container, you usually pay between US$75-US$125 just for the Bill of Lading (depending on your relationship with your freight forwarder.) But, with airlines you usually pay between US$25 - US$50 for Bill of Lading. So, depending on the weight/volume sometimes that difference absorbs the extra cost for airfreight.

Example, at this moment I am paying US$0.65 per kilo (including extra fuel and other charges) to airfreight between Miami and Guatemala (vice-versa). When I compare this against the urgency and total cost, given the weight for me to ship, it is sometimes better cost wise to airfregiht.

Another example, when I lived in Miami, my FIL asked that I send him a Jeep V8 engine. In a consolidated container it was going to cost me something like US$200. But I aired it and it cost me US$225. Very small difference but worth it since he got it the next day.

Iggy

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