Fifteen years of doing this, written down. What to check, what things cost, and what your own customs are going to ask for.
Buying a machine from another country is not complicated once you have done it, but the first time raises a lot of fair questions. What is a reasonable price. How many hours is too many. Whether a low hour Chinese machine beats a high hour Japanese one. What your own customs people are going to ask for.
We would rather answer those properly than leave you guessing, so this section is where we write them down as we go. Everything here is written from fifteen years of actually doing it rather than from a template.
Straight answers to the questions we are asked most often. If something you need is missing, tell us and we will write it.
What the machines cost, how the payment works, how long the shipping takes, and how to tell a real exporter from a bad one.
Low hour Japanese and Korean excavators from USD 35,000, with the tracked and wheeled options explained and every price on the page.
What loaders cost, which rated load actually suits your work, why the Chinese brands dominate, and how a loader travels by sea.
Single drum against double drum, seven tons against twenty two, and the expensive mistake buyers make when they pick the wrong one.
HOWO trucks for haulage, concrete and fuel, how to choose between six wheels and eight, and what each configuration costs.
Caterpillar and Komatsu against XCMG, SDLG and Sany. What you save, what you give up, and which machines hold their value.
An honest comparison of the landed cost against your local dealer, including the situations where importing is not worth the trouble.
Every part of the bill, the machine, the freight, the duty and the clearing, and which of them we can put a firm number on.
Almost every seller in this trade hides behind a contact form. Here is why we do the opposite and what it means for you.
Container, flat rack or bulk vessel, which one your machine needs, what drives the freight, and how the machine is secured.
The honest answer, the things that actually go wrong, and the four questions to ask any exporter before you send money.
What the hour meter really tells you, what counts as high by machine type, and when a higher hour machine is the smarter buy.
The photographs and video to demand, what to look at on the undercarriage and engine, and how to use an inspector properly.
The warning signs in a seller, the payment mistakes that cost buyers everything, and the checks that take ten minutes.
Machines in our Mohammedia yard priced in dirhams with the douane already settled, ready to inspect in person and take away.
Dakar, Abidjan, Tema, Lagos and the rest of the coast, from Morocco or from China, and which route lands your machine for less.
Karachi, Port Qasim, Chattogram and Colombo, served from Qingdao on one of the shortest and cheapest lanes we handle.
Port Klang, Jakarta, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City and Laem Chabang, with frequent sailings and competitive freight from China.
Georgetown, Paramaribo, Port of Spain, Kingston, Colon and Puerto Cortes, and why Guyana is the market we are watching.
Poti, Batumi, Baku and Aktau, then overland by rail or road, and how to budget for both legs rather than one.
Mersin, Umm Qasr and Aqaba, including the overland route into Iraq that many buyers prefer to the direct one.
Casablanca, Tanger Med, Algiers, Oran, Rades, Alexandria and Damietta, from our Morocco yard or from Qingdao.
Callao, Valparaiso, Iquique, Guayaquil, Buenaventura and Cartagena, plus the overland route into Bolivia.
Montevideo and the onward river and road route inland, and how to budget for both legs of the journey.
Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Djibouti, and the corridors running inland to Uganda, Zambia and Ethiopia.
Durban, Beira, Maputo and Walvis Bay, and how a landlocked buyer should choose between them.
Port Louis and Toamasina, where nothing is made locally and the sailing schedule decides your start date.
What the published auction fees actually add to a winning bid, and what the same machine costs at a fixed price.
Pay a company registered in the United States and we ship from our China yard. For buyers with no contacts in Asia.
Which machine to buy first, what it costs, and why one machine is usually enough to begin with.
Douala, Kribi, Owendo, Pointe-Noire, Matadi, Luanda and Lobito, and which port suits the Congo copper belt.
Fifty and hundred tonne Sany truck cranes from USD 93,000, how to work out the capacity you need, and how a crane ships.
A British built JCB 3CX at USD 47,000, when a backhoe beats an excavator, and when it does not.
A Caterpillar 305.5E in Mohammedia at MAD 235,000, and where a five tonne machine beats a full size one.
Diesel forklifts from USD 8,500, what capacity you need for pallets or containers, and how they ship to your port.
A Caterpillar 140H at 260 hours, dozers sourced to order, and which of the two your job actually needs.
Large excavators, production loaders, quarry tippers and crushers. What we hold now, and what we source to order.
Four hundred to one thousand dollars per machine for putting a buyer in front of us. Nothing to buy and nothing to pay.
The Mohammedia yard, prices in dirhams, spare parts, repair and servicing, and machine sourcing to order.
Undercarriage, buckets, hoses, filters and engine parts for Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hyundai, Doosan, SDLG and XCMG.
Rollers, graders, loaders, tippers and excavators, and why used wins on a fixed price contract.
Mini excavators, backhoe loaders and tippers for trenching, pipe laying and connection work.
Hydraulics, engines, undercarriage and routine servicing, at our yard or on your own site.
For dealers and traders. What resells fastest, what sits in a yard, and how buying in quantity changes the price.
The questions buyers ask us most often before they commit to a machine.
Those two pieces of information are all we need in order to give you a real answer, and you will normally hear back from us on the same day.
