Whats the difference between shipping a car by Container and Roll-On Roll Off?
With container shipping your car is driven into a Shipping Container, secured by tie-downs and the whole container is shipped to your destination port. With Roll-On Roll-Off, the car is driven into a special car carrying ship which transports your car to the destination port where it is driven off. Since the cost of shipping RO-RO is determined by the vehicle size it is usually cheaper to ship smaller, lower vehicles by RO-RO. However, this advantage diminishes as the vehicle gets bigger and containers offer better security. Shipping multiple vehicles in a 40 foot high cube container is generally cheaper per unit than shipping a single vehicle in a 20 foot container. Vehicles containerised in combination with parts usually offer you the highest container load factor, which means the lowest landed cost per item. There are sometimes capacity problems on some routes with both containerised and RO-RO shipments, so this can also determine which option you choose. For an indicative FOB Cost
