The obvious cost of container delivery is the transport quote. Lovely, neat, reassuring. A number on an email that makes everyone feel terribly organised. Unfortunately, that number is not always the full cost of getting a container where it needs to be. The painful costs often sit in the awkward bit nobody puts on the first spreadsheet: waiting time, failed delivery, extra lifting equipment, site disruption, double handling, missed loading windows, damage risk, yard chaos and the charming admin confetti that follows when a container is not where it should be.