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Landed Cost Estimator for an Imported Play Area
Equipment price is not project price, and the gap is mostly freight and duty. This builds the equipment line from your play area, adds ocean freight at a published index rate for your port pair, and adds US import duty where it applies.
Your project and routing
Square metres of play area, not gross lease.
Band is US$80–350. Low end is single-level toddler; high end is four levels with trampoline.
Index rate per 40 ft container.
A part-filled container still ships as a container.
The rates this estimator applies
| Input | Rate applied | Where the figure comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment | US$80–350 per m² of play area | Our own published band. Where you sit in it is driven by level count, theming and trampoline content. |
| Shanghai → Los Angeles | US$6,244 per 40 ft | Drewry World Container Index, week of 13 August 2026 |
| Shanghai → New York | US$8,706 per 40 ft | Drewry World Container Index, week of 13 August 2026 |
| Shanghai → Rotterdam | US$4,425 per 40 ft | Drewry World Container Index, week of 13 August 2026 |
| Shanghai → Genoa | US$5,080 per 40 ft | Drewry World Container Index, week of 13 August 2026 |
| All-route composite | US$4,339 per 40 ft | Drewry World Container Index, week of 13 August 2026. The same composite stood at US$1,852 in November 2025. |
| US import duty | 4 percent ad valorem | Column 1 General rate on HTS subheading 9506.99.60. Section 301 action, where it applies, is set at 8 and 10 digit level and is not included here. |
Get the real number instead of the index
Freight is quoted at booking against your actual port pair and sailing, not at an index. Send the floor plan and we price the equipment line properly, then quote freight against the routing you need.
Send Your Floor Plan for a Quote →Freight rates here are a published market index read on 13 August 2026, used so you can build your own estimate. They are not a quotation and they move weekly, so re-check the index before you rely on a figure more than about a month old. Duty is the Column 1 General rate and assumes the goods are correctly classified under 9506.99.60; play structures declared as plastic toys or as furniture change both the duty basis and the compliance paperwork, and the importer of record carries that correction, not the factory.
