FCL

20′

Volume

30 Cubic Meters

SOUTHAMPTON, UK

            2,000.00

Quoted  April 23rd, 2008 — Valid ’till  end April  2008

Trucking

               720.00

Handling & Stuffing

               180.00

Fumigation — ISPM#15

               150.00

Documentation

Bill of Loading

                 40.00

Doc. Handicraft, Furniture

                 25.00

Courier

                 30.00

Packing to be advised at time of shipping but, as

a rule-of-thumb, generally approx. 6% of the total invoice value.

TOTAL (excl. packing material)

            3,145.00

THC (Freight Collect Only)

                95.00

LCL Rate — Based on 1 cubic meter

Antwerp & Rotterdam

     80.00

Per CBM

DDC

     31.00

Per CBM

AMS

     20.00

Per Shipment

TRUCKING

     10.00

Per CBM

PACKING W/ WOOD CRATE

     35.00

Per CBM

HANDLING

     25.00

Per Shipment

BILL OF LADING

     10.00

Per Shipment

CUSTOM CLEARANCE

     30.00

Per Shipment

DOCUMENT & COURRIER

     55.00

Per Shipment

FUMIGATION

     60.00

Per Shipment

ABSORMATIC

       5.00

Per PCS

TOTAL

    361.00

We’ve made a few small changes to our structure over the past 2 days — hopefully, they’ll make your life easier.

The Indonesia Export Site Map

You can access this from our Information tab in the top navigation menu. We hope it will give you a clean and easy way to navigate through the website.

Product Index with Thumbnails

In addition to our Alphabetical Product Index, we’ve now added an Alphabetical Index with Thumbnails (first image from every category). You’ll have to navigate through page by page (using the menu at the bottom) but rather than our sometimes obscure product line titles, you’ll have a handy small image to help you identify what you’re looking for.

Product Index by Type

We’ve also broken down the different product lines into categories that may help you find similar or related product lines while you’re putting together an order. No hard or fast rules, just fairly general headings:

1. Furniture
2. Classic Bali Carvings — Decorative Artwork & Craft
3. Modern Craft — Decorative Giftware & Home Decor from Bali, Lombok & Java
4. Candles, Incense & Oils
5. Homeware, Tableware & Functional Home Decor
6. Stone, Glass, Ceramic & Terracotta
7. Stock Lists

(These links, by the way, are clickable — you can use them to go straight to the relevant section on the Product Index.)

Finally, I had removed the Logon link from the top navigation bar — sorry about that, it’s back now.

Afternoon,

Sean

I’m probably way off base calling this line “rococo” but, like the French style of the 18th Century, it’s elegant, ornate and ornamental.

The category comprises wooden corbels (shown in the photo) which can be used decoratively on their own or mounted as pairs for shelving; medallions mounted on bases for display and mirror frames.

Wood types are a combination of Durian and Wani.

Enjoy the whole range by going to:

Bali Rococo Corbels, Mirror Frames & Medallions

Sean

We don’t have many Durian Wood products — we do find the wood used a little however in some of our Storyboards, The Bali Rococo Line and the pole for Balinese Umbrellas.

Strictly speaking, Durian is a plant (bears fruit) rather than a tree. The fruit is very popular here in Bali and when it’s in season, it’s sometimes hard to escape the sickly sweet smell. And, when I say it’s sickly sweet, I’m not kidding — that’s how it smells.

The Durian over here is probably Durian zibethinus but as there are a few species across the archipelago, feel free to correct me if you have a better candidate for the type used in handicrafts.

If you’re interested in learning more, please visit the Durian Palace:

http://www.durianpalace.com/

Excellent site, written by a real fan of the Durian.

Botanically speaking, durian is a member of the plant family Bombacaceae, which also includes the baobab (Adansonia digitata) of tropical Africa, malabar chestnut (Pachira aquatica), bombax (Bombax ellipticum), silk floss tree (Chorisia speciosa), and the balsa or corkwood tree (Ochroma pyramidale). Duri is a Malaysian word meaning “spike.” In the genus Durio are at least 27 or 28 species, 19 of which are native to the island of Borneo (thought to be Durio’s original center of diversity), 11 to peninsular Malaysia, and 7 to Sumatra. Of 27 species, at least seven are notable for producing edible fruit, one of which (Durio zibethinus) is cultivated commercially in huge quantities in southeast Asia. Zibethinus is derived from the Italian word zibetto, which means “civet cat,” an old name for “skunk”—very unflattering for the durian, and some durian antagonists would say, for the civet cat!

The durian is a very ancient and primitive fruit. Some botanists regard the wild ancestors of modern durians as one of the first plants to rely on animals for dispersal of its seeds, enticing them to do so with attractive, nutritious, delicious, and odiferous food surrounding the seeds within a large fruit capsule. A British botanist named E.J.H. Corner originated this “durian theory of plant evolution.” In scientific papers published starting in 1949, he argued that the enticement of animals to transport seeds in their bellies arose before all other methods of plant seed dispersal, and that primitive ancestors of D. zibethinus were the not only the earliest practitioners of that strategy but the earliest plants to evolve into woody trees. (Read David Quammen’s entertaining and informative article about E.J.H. Corner’s durian theory of plant evolution here.)