SHIPPING

The cars have been packaged and stacked on pallets for shipment.  These pallets are loaded into a shipping container and taken to port where they are placed on a container ship.  It takes approximately three weeks for the product to travel across the Pacific ocean and reach a port city on the West coast of the United States.  

The container must go through customs before it is unloaded and checked into a local warehouse.  The product is then distributed to your local die-cast retail location.  Sometimes we have product brought to a local warehouse here in Indianapolis, IN.  For the container to get to Indianapolis, we must have the container loaded onto a rail car.  It then travels by train to Chicago where it goes through customs and is taken to a local warehouse.  The container is then loaded on a semi and driven 3 hours to Indianapolis.    

We hope you have enjoyed this rare look into the production side of the die-cast business.  It is an exciting yet tedious process with many ups and downs, but seeing the finished product after an 8-12 month process is incredibly satisfying and rewarding.