Shippers that claim they cannot insure if you pack
Mar 15th 2016, 6:10 pm
#16
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Re: Shippers that claim they cannot insure if you pack
I suspect that's what the shipping company/warehousing facilities charged for the inconvenience/extra costs, on top of shipping costs, not CBSA.
Or is that your total shipping cost?
Mar 15th 2016, 9:58 pm
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Re: Shippers that claim they cannot insure if you pack
This is correct and as far as I'm aware is the same for every country in the world.
I know of a UK Removals firm who had to offload every item of a 36 tonne truck at the France-Spain border.
The Spanish customs looked through the stuff for about 20 minutes then left, leaving the three crew to re-load everything....set them back about five hours..
Mar 15th 2016, 10:40 pm
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Re: Shippers that claim they cannot insure if you pack
40 foot sea can was approximately 6500 quid if I remember correctly. Including packing at the UK end and unloading into a storage unit at this end. That was Carlisle to Kelowna via Vancouver (Liverpool to Montreal sea crossing and rail to Vancouver, then shipped to Kelowna on a semi).
It did have a Landrover 110 in it as well as our belongings, hence the 40 foot...
Cost also included transferring Landrover on to a flat deck and delivering to our house so that I could then get it on a temporary plate and take it for inspection.
Last edited by withabix; Mar 15th 2016 at 10:43 pm.
Mar 16th 2016, 3:23 am
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Re: Shippers that claim they cannot insure if you pack
Try letton Percival.
Mar 17th 2016, 11:03 am
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Re: Shippers that claim they cannot insure if you pack
Don't use your moving company's insurance. They will charge you double the going rate because 50% of it will be their cut...
As for Canadian Customs inspecting your goods - yes, we had ours inspected and you have to pay for handling - it cost us nearly $1300, $1070 of which was for a 3rd party company to move our sea can to a bonded warehouse, unload it for Customs inspection, reload it and return it to the shipping company for onward elivery to us.
As for Canadian Customs inspecting your goods - yes, we had ours inspected and you have to pay for handling - it cost us nearly $1300, $1070 of which was for a 3rd party company to move our sea can to a bonded warehouse, unload it for Customs inspection, reload it and return it to the shipping company for onward elivery to us.
Mar 17th 2016, 11:10 am
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Re: Shippers that claim they cannot insure if you pack
If a shipment is inspected the amount charged goes directly to customs not the shipping company. Some shipping companys will pay CBSA on your behalf just to get the shipment moving again as CBSA will not release it without payment. Your shipping company will quiet rightly expect you to pay them. I should add that it is the receiving agent who pays this, not the origin shipping company.
