Getting it to you is part of the product

For tonnages where containers stop making sense.

Above a few thousand tonnes, containerising a mineral costs more in handling than the freight saves. Bulk loading moves the material straight from the stockpile to the hold — no bags, no pallets, no stuffing. The trade-off is that bulk needs a full parcel, a berth window and a buyer who can discharge it, so it suits recurring supply contracts rather than first orders.

The default for export, and the only sensible way to send a first order.

Minerals are dense, so a container fills up by weight long before it fills up by volume. That is why a 20-foot box is the working unit for this cargo and a 40-foot is usually the wrong buy — you pay for space you cannot legally load. Material travels bagged on pallets or in jumbo bags, and the stuffing plan is built around the payload limit of the destination road network, not just the container.

Domestic delivery, and overland to markets a truck can reach.

Inland freight is where a competitive ex-works price quietly turns into an expensive landed one, so it is quoted openly rather than buried in the tonne rate. Tipper trailers carry bulk grades to site; flatbeds and curtainsiders carry bagged and palletised material where the customer unloads with a forklift rather than a loader. For neighbouring markets, overland delivery often beats a short sea leg on both cost and door-to-door time.