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“How many tires fit in a container?” is the first question almost every new buyer asks us, and it is the right question — freight is a fixed cost per container, so the piece count decides your landed cost per tire. Here are the real numbers we load from Japan, by tire type. The short answer Passenger car tires (PCR), 12–17 inch, 40ft container: around 2,500–2,800 pieces Truck & bus tires (TBR), 11R22.5 only, 40ft container: around 288 pieces Mixed PCR + light truck, 40ft container: around 2,000–2,200 PCR plus 500–550 LT pieces 20ft container: roughly half of the above — we offer it for a first trial order Those

Buyers often assume every container from Japan leaves Yokohama. It does not. We load at 13 ports spread from Hokkaido to Kyushu, and the port your container sails from depends on where the tires are collected and which service reaches your destination fastest. The 13 ports we ship from Hokkaido: Ishikari, Tomakomai Tohoku: Hachinohe, Akita, Sendai Sea of Japan side: Niigata, Kashiwazaki Kanto: Tokyo, Yokohama Chubu: Nagoya Kansai: Osaka, Kobe Kyushu: Moji All thirteen are working options, not a list of ports we could theoretically use. Which one applies to your order is confirmed at the quotation stage. Why the port changes from order to order 1. Where the tires

Comparing two used tire offers is impossible until you know which Incoterm each one is quoted on. A cheap FOB number and a higher CIF number can land at exactly the same cost. We quote CIF and nothing else, so here is precisely what that includes. What CIF means CIF stands for Cost, Insurance and Freight. The seller pays to bring the goods to the named destination port, and arranges marine insurance for the voyage. In practice, on our quotations, that means the following is already inside the price: The tires themselves, graded and sorted Loading the container at our yard Inland movement to the Japanese loading port Export handling

Payment is where a first order from a new supplier feels riskiest, so it is worth setting out plainly. Here is how buyers actually pay us for a used tire container from Japan, and which currencies we invoice in. The methods we accept T/T — bank to bank transfer This is how most of our buyers pay. A telegraphic transfer from your bank to ours, against our invoice. It is the standard instrument in this trade, it leaves a clean record on both sides, and it is what we will quote against unless you ask for something else. L/C at sight For buyers on a yearly contract, we also work