/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>8726383

bump

sounds interesting, OP, but beyond my expertise

good luck

It could be like a giant accordion

If youre serious then find a chink business partner

>>8726642
how do i get one?
poach some guy from a chinese restaurant?

>>8726383
LMAO. anon what advantage would collapsible containers have?

i'd imagine that those things would need to be tough. those containers go everywhere... ship, trains, semi trucks... contractors use them as offices... Offices use them for storage... etc...

how hard it would be to make a collapsible something into an bomb proof shipping container. You're not talking about a fucking pup tent anon.

>>8726684
Not OP, but you could fit a lot more on a ship and pay less to return them. Isn't that obvious?

>>8726684
You can move more of them back and forth when they're empty?
At sea, they spend close to half their life empty. Including on land, containers spend 2/3rds of their life empty.

>finding a chink business partner
Duuuude.
Finding a chink business partner is like the equivalent of finding a nigger to hold your wallet while you tie your laces.

>>8726383
Chink here, thanks for the idea. Gonna undercut you while you still figure this shit out, cya.

>>8726736
>>8726722
Any folding mechanism is going to be less robust. And weight is more important than space, no?

>>8726736
Why do you need more? America only fills 10 and sends the rest back on ship. I'd understand it if China was sending less and America was sending more.

>>8726804
And much more expensive

>>8726752
It's easy if you live in Toronto. Just go to RBC Royal bank (mostly chinese business clients due to their competitive interest rates) and leave your card with some information around. Better yet go to Asian-American business events and try to pitch to the people giving speeches that are in the import/export business. Or go directly to chinese import/export businesses and speak to the people there. You're not going to find somebody established with connects on 4chan lmao.

>>8726804
Not necessarily, lighter flexible objects can be stronger than heavy rigid ones if engineered correctly. The question would be "why reinvent the wheel?". All these export businesses would have to throw out their shipping containers or repurpose them (not a bad idea for housing) so his solution would have to be amazing and affordable in order to be viable.

The biggest container ship company is maersk from denmark though.

>>8726818
Sorry, didn't explain very well.
They tend to accumulate since they're obviously not unloaded and sent back immediately. So in my example they only send 990 empties back because that's the ships capacity. It's too the point where China's starting to charter empty cargo vessels to countries just to retrieve their own containers.

>>8726713
>>8726804
These are good questions and like I said I don't have an actual prototype. But this was tried about a decade ago and it only failed because it wasn't profitable. I think demand for this has grown exponentially though and with some new material sciences insights , I think it could be profitable this time.

>>8726778
No offense bro, but chinks lack American ingenuity. You couldn't make this happen with a million chink minds combined.

I recommend you find a chink partner

>>8726997
>No offense bro, but chinks lack American ingenuity. You couldn't make this happen with a million chink minds combined.
Top keks mate. We have enough money to buy white bois. East takeover meanwhile US owes us a shit ton of debt. The West is done. Hail Trump :')

I work for one of the biggest cargo forwarders and I think your idea sucks.

>20 posts in and no gib.gif

>>8727042
I noticed a lot of cargo industry guys are lazy union luddites.
The only reason half of you guys have jobs is protectionism. /g/ could write an algorithm to automate your job in a day.

nice taste anon

>tfw The U.S. debt to China is $1.17 trillion as of January 2018.

... they need the ships too anon.

>>8726383
Oh... you mean kind of like this?

>>8726997
You won't be able to find a well connected partner with zero prototype. There are likely thousands in your same position, and a few with actual prototype. Don't seek out a partner until you have a tried and tested prototype better than the others and can answer the hard hitting questions. Otherwise you'll make a fool out of yourself.
>No offense bro, but chinks lack American ingenuity
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Asians are the highest earning group in your own country. The reason they aren't innovating is because it's not profitable. A lot of engineers forget that it isn't about designing the most innovative structure, it's about creating a viable and easily adopted option for an existing problem. You're lucky that shipping container homes are gaining traction lately, design an option that will be cheaper than the amount that they can sell their current containers for.

>>8728314

>>8726681
ya go to panda express, those chinks really know how to do business

>>8728372
>>8728314

hahahaha btfo'd

>>8726383
sounds like a fucking hassle

>>8726383
Find an American that speaks Chinese instead of a man actual chink

Also give me her goddamn name holy shit

With the way shipping containers are abused I doubt those collapsible things will last a year or two without breaking.

>>8726752
https://youtu.be/f6PjsHrrNgU?t=4m5s

>>8726383
>>8728482
Agreed. Name please sir Anon?

>>8727041
>butthurt chink who owns a fake iPhone and buys his shoes as New Bunren
>thinks we are going to ever payback debt
>has to order pork from America because Chinese pork is radioactive
>radioactive milk powder so has to go to Hong Kong or have relatives in Australia buy it
>changes name to Robert, or Jack, when they get to America because Hiung Hong Chung Ching Chong is embarrassing

I don’t blame you for leaving, Chung.

>>8727557
newsflash... China actually bought the debt... as a... wait for it... investment. If they sold the debt then their investments would ... guess what... be worthless, and then the Chinese would go back to being one giant poor third world country.

Who do you think would buy all the made in China rubber dog shit?

>>8728314
RIP OP
Maybe next time you have an idea spend 10 minutes googling it

the solution was bigger ships.

>>8729333
>>8729535
White bois getting mad. How does it feel to get cucked by China? If the America's power isn't slipping, why are you so mad? GOOO TRUMP! :')

>>8726383
Sup OP
Don't mean to piss on your idea but have you thought about the ships?
You're suggesting collapsible containers so a single ship can bring back 10 ships' worth of empty uncollapsed containers, right? Well, the ships that brought the full containers must return either way:

Current setup
>10 ships bring 10 lots of full containers
>10 ships return with 10 lots of empty containers

Introducing collapsible containers
>10 ships bring 10 lots of full containers
>1 ship brings back 10 lots of collapsed containers
>9 of them return empty

Doesn't sound like there is a sizeable reduction in cost

Its Stacy vandenberg

>>8726383
>>8726642
yeah do this and see what happens. i cant wait to see the pink wojak when they instantly steal your shit and fuck you in the ass

外國人不會做到這一點

>>8729878
不会做到
You mean 做不到
Fucking fake ass bitch nigger larping as a chink

>>8729752
the ships could harbor until they are filled since they would no longer need to come back immediately to return their empty crates

>>8730405

I don't even know what hew as trying to say.
"foreigners cant do this at all"?
my chinese sucks