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First iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Shipments Reportedly Land on U.S. Soil

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Air Cargo

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Oct 31, 2005
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200 Million Yuan for airfreight??

One 747-400 cargo freighter is around US$500,000 from China to USA.

The cargo payload capacity is around 85-92,000 kilos.

Air rates ex China are climbing, however, Apple is mostly using exclusive cargo charters, rather than passenger aircraft.

200 million yuan is around US$32,600,000! That's around 65 chartered 747's.

Apple normally use airfreight for the first month, then at the same time, start using ocean transportation. Shanghai to West Coast is 13 days.



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Apple's first iPhone 6 and 6 Plus shipments are already landing on U.S. soil, reports CCAonline (via iPhone in Canada). According to the report, the first cargo pallets have been transported to Chicago in two "special cargo" batches from Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport via China Southern Airlines.

Shipping manifests show the cargo weighed a total of 93 tons and was broken into two parcels, one weighing 14.5 tons on September 6 and a second one weighing 78.5 tons on September 10. MacRumors had previously heard similar word that shipments would be beginning late last week as Apple begins staging units at central locations before distributing them around the country for launch.

As a very rough estimate based on the device weight supplied by Apple, these parcels could hold approximately 720,000 iPhone 6 units or 540,000 iPhone 6 Plus handsets. Apple is reportedly paying up to 200 million yuan for the freight in what may be a single-day shipment record for China Southern freight.

This shipment is one of many Apple has planned in the coming weeks with the company supposedly booking much of the available cargo shipping space coming out of China. Apple supposedly has a stranglehold on outgoing shipments, forcing some smaller manufacturers to delay the transport of their products out of the Asian country.

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ericzchu

macrumors newbie
Sep 11, 2014
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Air Cargo said:
One 747-400 cargo freighter is around US$500,000 from China to USA.

The cargo payload capacity is around 85-92,000 kilos.

Air rates ex China are climbing, however, Apple is mostly using exclusive cargo charters, rather than passenger aircraft.

200 million yuan is around US$32,600,000! That's around 65 chartered 747's.

Apple normally use airfreight for the first month, then at the same time, start using ocean transportation. Shanghai to West Coast is 13 days.
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Yup. The translation is wrong. The original Chinese article says that the cost was over 2 million yuan, not 200 million yuan.
 
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Narg

macrumors member
Jan 23, 2008
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Shipping

I ordered a 27" computer monitor once from Korea, with "standard shipping" It landed on my door step in 36 hours, and it came directly from Korea. Still can't seem to get some things from over the state line in a week! Shipping is so crazy these days.
 
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