Bella Donna

We've just had an e-mail from our shippers saying that our freight is estimated to arrive in Fremantle on 12th September - the packers finished on 12th August, so am I right in thinking that this is pretty good, assuming that date is accurate?

bridiej

Blimey, that's quick!!!!

I thought it took about 6 weeks for full containers - ours is part and they've said 12-16 weeks....

pootle26

thats right

ours left 10 june & arrived 10 july into freemantle - our stuff was delivered to our house about a week later


hth

pootle26

bridiej

Wow, home come it's so quick?

pootle26

not sure - ours was on the next shipment after they picked it up - 2 days later - we used britannia - we only got 2 quotes - them & pickfords - i didnt like the pickfords guy so didnt even bother looking into shipping times etc
i thought it was standard so not sure why others are really long


pootle26

Timber Floor Au

Ours docked 14th december after leavin uk 11th Oct

We finally got it released 28th January 2005

Was full container from Uk to Brisbane via some twat in JUPITER lol

bridiej

might have to look into this... do you have a website address for Britannia?

wargod

Perhaps there are many people 'sharing' your container and they have to wait to fill it before it gets shipped?

Failing that perhaps they are finding it a tad difficult to get that many pigeons to strap to it?

pootle26

here you go

http://www.britannia-movers.co.uk/

we used lanes as they are our local one - being in devon they were really good


hth

pootle26

bridiej

thank you, k sent

marco121068

The tide was running the right way?

Seriously though (what me?) - that does seem very good. I thought it was more like 10/12 weeks.

bridiej

that's what i thought..... JM said even if we had a container to ourselves it was 6-8 weeks!

Bella Donna

We had a full 20' container and shipped with Bishop's in Exeter. I don't know when the container was going to be loaded but we were told it would be around 6-8 weeks, so if this goes to the date predicted it will be a nice surprise. Having said that, if it does arrive on 12th September it will be going into storage as we won't even be in WA then...and then we still have to find somewhere to rent.

I'll just be happy to know it's in Oz!

natty

Ours was a shared container and was packed on 28th April and it arrived this week- 17 WEEKS !!!! AAAHHHHH - it had been so long that I couldnt even remember what I had shipped and despite thinking I had been ruthless in getting rid of rubbish I still managed to ship a lot of useless crap !!!! Why oh why did I think I would need 7 disposable plastic pots !!!!

Nat xxx

Pollyana

Shared containers take longer as you have to wait for them to fill. Then the actual time on the voyage is affected by numerous things - number of ports en route, ocean currents, wind, whether the container has to be moved to another ship, just to name a few.
And most people shipping into Perth/WA will get their ship into port before the East Coast people.
Then theres time taken in Customs..........thats another minefield!