Shipping to Australia
#1
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Shipping to Australia
Hi,
Can anyone reccomend some good shipping companies, to move our possesions to Australia? We don't have that much, it's not a full house or anything, but i does include a lot of valuable electronic/AV equipment. I think a 4 x 4 metre container would do it easily. And I don't mind how long it takes to get there, 3 months is fine.
Thanks!!
Can anyone reccomend some good shipping companies, to move our possesions to Australia? We don't have that much, it's not a full house or anything, but i does include a lot of valuable electronic/AV equipment. I think a 4 x 4 metre container would do it easily. And I don't mind how long it takes to get there, 3 months is fine.
Thanks!!
#2
Re: Shipping to Australia
Hi,
Can anyone reccomend some good shipping companies, to move our possesions to Australia? We don't have that much, it's not a full house or anything, but i does include a lot of valuable electronic/AV equipment. I think a 4 x 4 metre container would do it easily. And I don't mind how long it takes to get there, 3 months is fine.
Thanks!!
Can anyone reccomend some good shipping companies, to move our possesions to Australia? We don't have that much, it's not a full house or anything, but i does include a lot of valuable electronic/AV equipment. I think a 4 x 4 metre container would do it easily. And I don't mind how long it takes to get there, 3 months is fine.
Thanks!!
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Re: Shipping to Australia
We are having a 40 ft container & Crown are coming tomorrow for 4 days to pack our things..I will let you know how we get on.
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Re: Shipping to Australia
Hello there
Im going through this process of searching the market and prices for a 20ft container vary by a great deal, Dorree Boner are quite expensive but seem very good. PPS did n't rock my boat, there's a joke in there somewhere. they were about 400 quid cheaper than Doree. Crown were about 1,000 dearer and Britannia forget it. I said a few swear words when I read that.
I am at the moment looking at Gobal relocations & EVL who are very competative and will price match. Does anyone have any experience Good or bad experiences please let me know. As it will be decision day soon..
We fly out on the 6th march. Yipee
Im going through this process of searching the market and prices for a 20ft container vary by a great deal, Dorree Boner are quite expensive but seem very good. PPS did n't rock my boat, there's a joke in there somewhere. they were about 400 quid cheaper than Doree. Crown were about 1,000 dearer and Britannia forget it. I said a few swear words when I read that.
I am at the moment looking at Gobal relocations & EVL who are very competative and will price match. Does anyone have any experience Good or bad experiences please let me know. As it will be decision day soon..
We fly out on the 6th march. Yipee
#6
Re: Shipping to Australia
I have John Masons coming on Thursday to pack 70% of a 20ft container... I'll let you know how I get on.
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Re: Shipping to Australia
what exactly is a 40 or 20 foot container? obviously its 20/40 feet long, but what are the other dimensions?
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Re: Shipping to Australia
right... and where is the packing done? they bring the container to your house?
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Re: Shipping to Australia
Hi,
Can anyone reccomend some good shipping companies, to move our possesions to Australia? We don't have that much, it's not a full house or anything, but i does include a lot of valuable electronic/AV equipment. I think a 4 x 4 metre container would do it easily. And I don't mind how long it takes to get there, 3 months is fine.
Thanks!!
Can anyone reccomend some good shipping companies, to move our possesions to Australia? We don't have that much, it's not a full house or anything, but i does include a lot of valuable electronic/AV equipment. I think a 4 x 4 metre container would do it easily. And I don't mind how long it takes to get there, 3 months is fine.
Thanks!!
We are just starting the process ourselves We will need a 40ft container can anybody give us some quide prices. We have a local company giving us a price next week who work in partnership with Robinson International anybody used them before.
Thanks
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John Mason are bringing a truck to move it all as it is going into storage and we are sharing a container... otherwise i think they sometimes bring the container
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Re: Shipping to Australia
gonna be awful, seeing all of my worldly possesion's disappear onto a truck... I hope they are careful!!!
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No I think the hardest thing so far is giving stuff away that is worth quite a bit of money, having to skip/chuck stuff that still has life left or not being able to get rid of stuff.
I'll let you know of thurs/fri how it feels when its all taken away!
I'll let you know of thurs/fri how it feels when its all taken away!
#14
Re: Shipping to Australia
Hi,
Can anyone reccomend some good shipping companies, to move our possesions to Australia? We don't have that much, it's not a full house or anything, but i does include a lot of valuable electronic/AV equipment. I think a 4 x 4 metre container would do it easily. And I don't mind how long it takes to get there, 3 months is fine.
Thanks!!
Can anyone reccomend some good shipping companies, to move our possesions to Australia? We don't have that much, it's not a full house or anything, but i does include a lot of valuable electronic/AV equipment. I think a 4 x 4 metre container would do it easily. And I don't mind how long it takes to get there, 3 months is fine.
Thanks!!
We will be taking a similar amount, can anyone recomend the best way to ship this amount, either as part of a container or tea chests, individual boxes etc ?
Cheers
Shona
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Re: Shipping to Australia
Hi Shona
We did a similar thing - only bought what we couldn't bear to leave which turned out to be about 20 boxes total. Used Anglo Pacific, they had been to quote on the whole house but we changed our mind about taking everything so I just emailed a list of the items and rough sizes (or actual sizes where it could be put back in its box) and they gave me a quote. They just confirm the cost once the packers have been, turned out to be cheaper that the quote for us as the packers put things inside other things that I hadn't thought of. We just insured the things that were worth something other than sentimental value (as they can't be replaced at any cost obviously).
The packers were great in the UK, they just pack all your goods into the relevant sized industrial cardboard box complete with a forests worth of padding paper, make a note of what's in them (little hint here, I listed absolutely everything that we were taking including the names of dvds and serial numbers of computers etc as they're quite general in how they term the contents of your world!) and put them in a van. They just stay together then until a container has the appropriate amount of space left in it, then get shipped. It can take a bit longer but there are that may people coming over now that I don't think it matters like it used to. I also checked that they don't employ casual staff as I read on here ages ago that can be where the problems start.
We got our boxes just before Christmas after leaving beginning of Oct (inc a detour via Brisbane as that's where we thought we'd end up initially) with everything intact and working - including OH's computer, media centre, dvds etc. Very impressed.
Hope it works out the same for you
We did a similar thing - only bought what we couldn't bear to leave which turned out to be about 20 boxes total. Used Anglo Pacific, they had been to quote on the whole house but we changed our mind about taking everything so I just emailed a list of the items and rough sizes (or actual sizes where it could be put back in its box) and they gave me a quote. They just confirm the cost once the packers have been, turned out to be cheaper that the quote for us as the packers put things inside other things that I hadn't thought of. We just insured the things that were worth something other than sentimental value (as they can't be replaced at any cost obviously).
The packers were great in the UK, they just pack all your goods into the relevant sized industrial cardboard box complete with a forests worth of padding paper, make a note of what's in them (little hint here, I listed absolutely everything that we were taking including the names of dvds and serial numbers of computers etc as they're quite general in how they term the contents of your world!) and put them in a van. They just stay together then until a container has the appropriate amount of space left in it, then get shipped. It can take a bit longer but there are that may people coming over now that I don't think it matters like it used to. I also checked that they don't employ casual staff as I read on here ages ago that can be where the problems start.
We got our boxes just before Christmas after leaving beginning of Oct (inc a detour via Brisbane as that's where we thought we'd end up initially) with everything intact and working - including OH's computer, media centre, dvds etc. Very impressed.
Hope it works out the same for you