[Stoves] NGO is looking for a stove update in production process

Tue Jul 26 11:24:40 CDT 2016

Dear Friends

What a great story.

For those (like me) who have to get stoves moved around vast distances for testing, please be aware that there is a DHL air freight service that operates just like the document service and it FAR cheaper. They don’t operate out of the same office so when you take your ‘little stove’ to the document people they will charge you per 10 grams or some such as if it was a heart transplant and guarantee to get it there in two days, a service level which is not needed.

The Air Freight service is more like a bus parcel express and charges regular rates on the ‘slow’ plan like 10 days or 3 weeks depending on where it is going. I was able to use this version of reality to send a very heavy, high accuracy platform scale to Ulaanbaatar last year. The price about half for not being procured in Ulaanbaatar, but the transport accounted for most of the difference. Basically the vendor charges you the ‘letter rate’ for the heavy shipment and adds that to the retail price. 

So…check to see if the DHL (or other) air freight service is available to the destination. I found that the local airlines, like Swazi Air or Garuda or… also have a little-known air freight office and send parcels in a reasonable time – often cheaper than the surface rate even for very heavy items like rock crushers. We routinely send heavy items to Togo or Kenya by air because it is cheaper than by sea, but only when using the airline freight office. They put it on the passenger planes which often carry 50% of their load as passenger-unrelated cargo.

Regards

Crispin

For the record Camilla Fulland at Prime was the  European connection who carried her 

her own personal stoves  to  Aprovecho because mine got stuck in EU Customs.

They were then forwarded Todd Albi at Silverfire to mail to me.

the stove now reside at the College of the Marshall Islands where they are used as demonstrrators in both

Environmental Science and Agriculture. 

Yeah on the whole stoves list!!!  AND I hope Deniz finds the same kind of support!!!

From: Camilla Fulland <mailto:camilla.fulland at primestoves.com>  

Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 7:35 PM

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Subject: Re: [Stoves] NGO is looking for a stove update in production process

Truly epic but we made it :)

Camilla Fulland

CEO | Prime Cookstoves

 <mailto:camilla.fulland at primestoves.com> camilla.fulland at primestoves.com 

Norway: +47 48 12 05 37

Indonesia: +628 2147 600 141

Skype: camilla.fulland

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From: Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Michael N Trevor
Sent: tirsdag 26. juli 2016 09.07
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Subject: Re: [Stoves] NGO is looking for a stove update in production process

Todd at Silverfire has unfortunately pointed out a truly sad state of affairs.  There are many great stoves of all kinds.

However the world shipping industry has now managed to make it near impossible for people to get samples

for experimental or testing.

Probably the  most extreme example was the TLUD stove made in Indonesia. The stove costs about a nominal 20.00 USD

but shipping it to the Marshall Islands was in the hundreds. It was finally shipped, swapped,   hand carried and mailed: Indonesia to Europe 

to the USA to the Marshall Islands. Absolutely absurd but a true testament to all sharing bond of stove advocates workers and supporters all 

the way around the world.  A really epic journey.

HAIL ALL WHO HELPED 

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