The person that he bought it from did a lot of exporting so the process was pretty easy. We rented a Uhaul with a vehicle trailer and drove it down that morning from NC. We went to the importer/exporters office, dad signed a few papers, and we drove to the port with a huge file of paperwork. Showed some papers to the port officials and loaded up the unimog. As far as the container is concerned, at the time, as long as you could fit it, you could ship it. Weight was never an issue, it was all about the size. I will be buying a G wagon wolf in the near future but i will not be bringing it back on a trailer. I'm taking a cab from the airport to the port. Cant wait to drive my new G wagen!
You wouldn't expect port operations to be "sexy" enough that there'd be commercial tours of such facilities, but that actually was pretty interesting. I take it this tour was something done by the State of SC?
There's no way they would run tours here. I was putting in silt fence there about a year ago and I wasn't even allowed inside the actual port. I had to stay on the other side of a tall ass fence. with razor wire. and they hired us haha
@@ThePaintballfreak97 they actually do quarterly tours there in Charleston. They only allow 13 on the tour. Talked to the lady that organizes the few tours they conduct, she also told me, about a vessel tracking app. I used it to watch the msc Francesca come in to the harbor under the Ravenel bridge. We parked walked up the bridge and she floated underneath us. So cool to see something that size and not really make a peep coming into the Wando terminal. I hope to go back and do the tour.
I've noticed on the shipping containers they have various different names on them (cosco,maersk,msc "just to name a few") are those the names of shipping companies or something?
I am driver in CA and have gone in and out of the Ports of Long Beach and Oakland and let me tell you its hell having to deal with those overpaid lazy and rude union port workers
The container is loaded onto chassis called "bomb carts". They have sides so the container won't slide off...hopefully. Usually the only times you see a road truck being loaded or unloaded by a ship-to-shore crane is when there are explosives, 1.1 or 1.2, or a "hot" load.
I can't stand when the city/company allow these tours to come in our ports in LA/LB. Would you like people coming to your job and stare at you while you work? My job is dangerous, go away!!!
It really is amazing how much they can move in and out of a port like that.
This didn’t age well…
This is so cool, how it all happens so seamlessly.
Im a switcher truck driver and I think it would be fun to work there and I love Charleston ❤️
Love from container terminal operations in Sheiyba Kuwait!
Greetings from local 13 port of LA/LB California
Thanks for the tour.
Thank you!
My dad bought a Unimog a few years back and it shipped to that same port. It's a beautiful area and Market street is really nice too.
How'd that process go. He had someone there to take possession at the port for him? Did it come in a normal container?
The person that he bought it from did a lot of exporting so the process was pretty easy. We rented a Uhaul with a vehicle trailer and drove it down that morning from NC. We went to the importer/exporters office, dad signed a few papers, and we drove to the port with a huge file of paperwork. Showed some papers to the port officials and loaded up the unimog. As far as the container is concerned, at the time, as long as you could fit it, you could ship it. Weight was never an issue, it was all about the size. I will be buying a G wagon wolf in the near future but i will not be bringing it back on a trailer. I'm taking a cab from the airport to the port. Cant wait to drive my new G wagen!
I'm terminal operator in Redsea gateway terminal and hope one day i will come and work here
BMWs produced in SC are exported there too, as are tires by Continental and other firms.
You wouldn't expect port operations to be "sexy" enough that there'd be commercial tours of such facilities, but that actually was pretty interesting. I take it this tour was something done by the State of SC?
+Aaron Fink yes it was a tour for journalist organized by Mercedes and the state port authority.
There's no way they would run tours here. I was putting in silt fence there about a year ago and I wasn't even allowed inside the actual port. I had to stay on the other side of a tall ass fence. with razor wire. and they hired us haha
@@ThePaintballfreak97 they actually do quarterly tours there in Charleston. They only allow 13 on the tour. Talked to the lady that organizes the few tours they conduct, she also told me, about a vessel tracking app. I used it to watch the msc Francesca come in to the harbor under the Ravenel bridge. We parked walked up the bridge and she floated underneath us. So cool to see something that size and not really make a peep coming into the Wando terminal. I hope to go back and do the tour.
I'm trying to find out how you ship cars ,school busses or SUVs in the port of Houston out to the Caribbean ?
How do you take this tour?
Damn my favorite youtube came to town and didn’t tell me
That looks like where the opening sequence of the first Fast and The Furious movie was filmed
I've noticed on the shipping containers they have various different names on them (cosco,maersk,msc "just to name a few") are those the names of shipping companies or something?
Yes - the companies you listed also have their own ships. Evergreen is another big name.
They are shipping who own shipping lines
I am driver in CA and have gone in and out of the Ports of Long Beach and Oakland and let me tell you its hell having to deal with those overpaid lazy and rude union port workers
Overpaid? Have u ever taught that your just under paid. you would step out that rig any day to be apart of that union facts
Not ever because I could never act like they do too work there you have to be first class jerks
@@cartman4885 I work on that port and those ILA drivers...just wow bunch of cry babies sometimes.
What is a typical turn around time through the port, gate to gate?
About an hour
Some days 40 mins . Some days an hour and a half
I would never be ok with city/state employees driving cranes. When are state employees more efficient?
Wow nice vedio..
I like your video
If your here due to a buisness assignment, your looking for landlord ports at around 5:40
it makes me wonder how the crane just drop the container on the trailer and the truck goes without securing the container and it doesn't fall off.
The container is loaded onto chassis called "bomb carts". They have sides so the container won't slide off...hopefully. Usually the only times you see a road truck being loaded or unloaded by a ship-to-shore crane is when there are explosives, 1.1 or 1.2, or a "hot" load.
I like your vidoe
I want to know. .. how many containers gets lost at sea.
I think I read between 1500 and 3000 containers get lost at sea each year.
That's is my State
They are NOT boats.... they are ships.
I can't stand when the city/company allow these tours to come in our ports in LA/LB. Would you like people coming to your job and stare at you while you work? My job is dangerous, go away!!!
Shame it all leaves by truck and not train.
The Metal Butcher Why?
Yeah we receive them by train tho
System of employment sucks!
People pay to be on a tour of a port? What a waste of money.
Depends on your interests, which may be professional and include logistics. The average shmuck doesn't need to know that stuff.