I hold no brief for this or any other router building company,but their business is building machines and not predicting cost trends in other industries.I can't actually think of any business that would depart from their specialist operation to do so.If you want their product they will tell you the cost of that when it is ready to leave the factory and it seems that they gave the choice of organising your own alternative shipping.I don't believe they have been unreasonable given that the annoying increase in cost won't give them any financial benefit.This article illustrates what has happened with container shipping costs and shows that they may be coming down https://splash247.com/container-spot...-in-free-fall/ .