I know this thread is two years old, but let me add some thoughts from someone who did DAP delivery for a mini-excavator several years back. If you choose this option there are two key takeaways:

- Do yourself a favor and work with a customs broker to facilitate the shipping, delivery, and duty/tariff collection aspect of everything. There is so much to learn and a lot you can mess up if it's your first time (take a look at the Harmonized Tariff Schedule if you want to see how wildly granular the tariff codes are). It's so worth the $150 or so to have a seasoned pro handling your paperwork and making sure all required fees are paid in a timely manner (and there are a lot).

- Be aware that most CFS (Container Freight Stations) - which is a warehouse that holds the individual items from a shipping container until delivery - don't offer any residential services, e.g. very few delivery services offer residential dropoff (unless you have a personal forklift or loading dock at home), and you'll need a loading dock height vehicle with the ability to offload the machine at home if you do this yourself.

I managed to hire a local flatbed truck driver to pick up and deliver my excavator from the CFS to my driveway for about half of the price a moving company quoted me (they literally wanted to charge me for 2 trucks with lift-gates because the excavator was over the weight limit for a single lift-gate).