shipping containers to move overseas??
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Topic: shipping containers to move overseas??
Posted By: BaAsKa
Subject: shipping containers to move overseas??
Date Posted: 07 February 2010 at 9:02am
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anyone used 1??
I really want to take quite alot overseas... How much do they cost? How much can fit in it? TIA |
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Posted By: MrsH23
Date Posted: 07 February 2010 at 9:39am
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Not sure of the cost but you will be able to "hire" one from the shipping company, they usually will provide a container at an address x days before the ship is leaving and it must be ready by x date otherwise it wont make the ship. Then you will have x days once it's arrived to unpack (devan) it. I think they give you 2-3 days to unpack it before you get charged. ------------- Lisa mummy to Ryan http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Gardengirl
Date Posted: 07 February 2010 at 9:44am
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Depends on if you buy or hire. We bought a 20' hi-cube to shift islands and you'd be looking at $2-2,500 for a certified furniture grade one. We bought our own as our stuff would be in there for some months and we knew we'd get our money back that way (and we since have) but you may find hiring one works better for you.
We were just about able to fit in the contents of a 5 bedroom house but that was with some very skillful packing by DH. A regular 20' would have been too small and a 40' way too big for us. You're probably better off giving a relocation company a call and getting a quote, that way you know all your associated costs will be in the picture, try someone like Crown or World Movers. They'll do the packing for you too if you want and of course make sure all your customs obligations are met. |
Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 07 February 2010 at 10:17am
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Try a freight forward company that deals in Less than container loads for personal effects. The container sizes are 20" and 40" which is huge , so incase you dont fill one you can still ship. There are quite strict restrictions on safety of carriage - items must be well packed. obviously you dont want them flung around on the sea either. A freight forwarder will also have agents that can complete customs declarations and all the paperwork to shift your cargo.
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 07 February 2010 at 10:27am
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Friends just moved to the UK and they used a 20' GP (general purpose) and they still had to sell/give away alot of things.
I worked for a shipping company a while ago and I would suggest that you use a moving company (e.g. Allied Pickfords, The Moving Company, Crown Relocations etc) as they will do alot of the work for you. Thanks to Sept 11 and the US it can be very difficult to get the paperwork donweif you are going anywhere near the US or through it. You could use a Freight Forwarder like RasberryJam suggested but they won't do the packing for you like a moving company will so just depends on how much work you want to do yourself ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 07 February 2010 at 10:05pm
| my friend has moved to and from oz and taken a container, both times it was around $7k for half a container, thats enough for a house load, and thats packed and shipped. She used Crown going over and said never again, they had sooo many problems with them with things getting broken and it being over 6 weeks longer than they said it would which is a long time without your furniture. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 07 February 2010 at 10:09pm
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Yep same for my parents as well althou they didn't have issues with getting their stuff on time they got these earlier than they said but I think that was because of a bottle of rum!!! ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 07 February 2010 at 10:16pm
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You also need to remember insurance. A specialist moving company will have that all in the package.
Crown has a good website where you go through & virtually pack stuff room by room. They can give you a cost on this but you can save it & print it to get costing from other companies. This website http://movetoaustralia.net/ is fabulous for moving to Oz. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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