40ft container - How Much?
Jun 1st 2007 | 10:42 pm
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Re: 40ft container - How Much?
Our 40ft container left last Fri. We used Anglo pacific and it has cost us £10,000 Thats not including insurance. They came and packed everything and will un pack once we get to Brisbane and take away all boxes, packaging etc. Hope this helps
Jun 1st 2007 | 10:57 pm
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Re: 40ft container - How Much?
Jun 2nd 2007 | 5:49 am
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Re: 40ft container - How Much?
Has anyone considered buying a container and selling it over there? Obviously a higher original outlay but it might pay in the end....just wondering!
Jun 9th 2007 | 4:28 pm
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Re: 40ft container - How Much?
For £10,000 I'd want them to cook dinner and babysit the kids for a month as well! Jeeeez!!!!! Or did you move from a country mansion?
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Jun 9th 2007 | 4:35 pm
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Re: 40ft container - How Much?
Yes, but there are a number of disadvantages... Your cargo will be collected and left waiting in a consolidators warehouse until such time as he has enough to make a full container... This may be relatively quickly or, as has happened to a couple on here, it may be a couple of months... Then the reverse happens at the other end with everything being unpacked and divided up into final destination areas with the traffic operators looking to maximise delivery routing, so again you may wait a while before getting delivery... Also with the extra handling and storage there's a much greater chance of pilferage/damage... Bear in mind that if you have say 2/3 of a container load or more you won't save anything anyway...
Must admit I'm not impressed. Company at the Uk end have been great, they are Migrate Global,
Unfortunately the stuff ended up in a container being shipped by a company that are very low in my estimation, and who have now stuffed me around for the second time. If I'd known that they were involved in the process at all then I would flown the stuff as excess baggage and sod the cost.
Australian Vanlines are now supposed to be importing it in conjunction with the company that is in control of the container, and between them the service is nothing less than diabolical. So far I've had 18 unreturned phone calls, requested 3 emails that haven't arrived, been blatantly lied to that my goods were cleared and ready for delivery when they hadn't even been released by Customs.......and so it goes on.
As before its not damage I'm complaining about it a total lack of information, or blatantly wrong information being provided to both myself and the exporting company, who I have to say have been fantastic the whole way though.
As my naming of the main company, the last time they stuffed me around they complained that I was giving them adverse publicity, so I shall refrain from naming them, but will just say that I wish Chrissie181 the very best of Anglican luck
Jun 9th 2007 | 5:12 pm
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Re: 40ft container - How Much?
You deffo got the short straw in the relocation stakes Polly...
Those shippers do seem to get a fair bit of flack on here... :curse:
We used a complete unknown in the UK but someone that was local and their agent over here is Kent International... It took a month for us to get our stuff as well but it was over the Christmas period so in reality probably no worse than 2 weeks...
Those shippers do seem to get a fair bit of flack on here... :curse:
We used a complete unknown in the UK but someone that was local and their agent over here is Kent International... It took a month for us to get our stuff as well but it was over the Christmas period so in reality probably no worse than 2 weeks...
