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Freight Rate Manager
A freight dollar is not a dollar. Freight sits inside the customs value, so duty is charged on it and then consumption tax is charged on the duty. The same $1,700 quote lands as $1,742 into the United States and $2,244 into the United Kingdom — and nothing on the forwarder's invoice tells you that. This puts every destination side by side at the number you will actually pay.
One vehicle, every destination
Enter a freight quote against any lane to price it. Blank lanes use our indicative figure.
Your worst lane is Kenya: a $1,900 freight figure lands as $2,755 — $855 of it is duty and tax charged on the freight, not the freight itself.
| Destination | Freight quote (USD) | Per $1 freight | True freight cost | Marine premium | Landed total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | est. | $1.10 | $330+$30 tax | $54–$115 | $18,180 |
| United States | est. | $1.02 | $1,537+$37 tax | $58–$124 | $18,275 |
| UAE | est. | $1.10 | $1,984+$184 tax | $59–$126 | $20,023 |
| Canada | est. | $1.11 | $1,782+$182 tax | $58–$125 | $20,100 |
| New Zealand | est. | $1.15 | $1,725+$225 tax | $58–$124 | $20,550 |
| Australia | est. | $1.16 | $1,848+$248 tax | $58–$125 | $20,901 |
| United Kingdom | est. | $1.32 | $2,244+$544 tax | $58–$125 | $23,754 |
| Kenya | est. | $1.45 | $2,755+$855 tax | $59–$127 | $30,880 |
The estimated freight figures are ours, and they are not sourced. They are WATTSHIP internal working estimates for a Japan-origin used vehicle, not carrier tariffs — ocean freight moves weekly with the port pair, the season, and RoRo versus container. Every column that follows from them inherits that. The arithmetic on top of them is exact; the input is not. Put your own quote in the box.
Not priced here: ZA. We hold a freight figure for that lane but no duty or tax table, so a landed total would be a guess dressed as a calculation.
Sea only. There is no air or rail column because we hold no air or rail rate for any of these lanes. An invented shipping rate is not worth less than no rate — it is worth less than nothing, because you would book against it.
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Get a live freight quote →WATTSHIP may earn a referral fee.The duty, tax and clearance figures are the same ones behind the Landed Cost tool and the import-cost pages — one table, so these numbers cannot disagree with those. The freight estimates are ours and are labelled as estimates wherever they appear.