Products by return on investment
One full truck of each product. ROI = selling price ÷ landed cost − 1. Click a heading to sort.
| Product | Box | Boxes / truck | On the vessel | Fish cost / t | Landed / box | Selling / box | Margin / box | ROI | Profit / truck |
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Truckloads from what the vessel has
The vessel's stock packed into trucks of up to 26 t, taking the highest-return products first. Where a product runs out part-way, the truck is topped up with the next product. Trucks are listed by ROI. Cash required is everything it takes to land that truck in Kasumbalesa; the running total shows what an investor needs to fund every truck down to that line.
| Truck | Load | Weight | Cash required | Sales value | Profit | ROI | Cash, running total | Profit, running total |
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How the landed cost is built
Per truck
- Fish: fish cost per ton × kg loaded ÷ 1,000
- Documents and levy: US$165.57 + 1.5% of the fish
- Transport: US$7,900 per delivery
- Zambian customs: 5% of (fish + documents + transport), charged as that many kwacha
- Border fees ZMW 4,463, offloading ZMW 1,000 and bank charges US$90
Landed per box = the truck's total ÷ the boxes on it.
Boxes per truck
- Second-grade products
- 1,250
- 18 kg products
- 1,444
- All other products
- 1,300
A mixed truck is full when its products together fill one truck at these rates, never more than 26 t.
Inputs
Selling prices are Deep Harbor's Ongula prices in Kasumbalesa. Not included: VAT and storage in Kasumbalesa.