Shipping Goods
 

Hi

Can anyone recommend a good shipping company? We live in Lincolnshire and are looking to depart April/May next year. I estimating cost to be about £3500 ish is that fair?

Looking at Nova Scotia / New Brunswick..

Thanks

John

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Marsley in Wakefield West Yorkshire were very good and reasonale.

Ruby

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We are looking at around the same cost to ship in a 20x20 container from London.

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Hi BadgerNaboo,
Can you tell me the company who gave you your quote please, as my partner and I have been quoted £5500.(i would mind if we had a large house with lots to ship) We are based in the South East
Many thanks

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How much do you want to ship? Check out 'Excess Baggage' for very reasonable rates. But, not for shipping your entire house or anything.

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That's the kind of quote I had the 1st time.

http://www.evl.co.uk/services.htm#guarantee

I'm pretty sure it's the people at the link above that gave me a cheaper quote.

Let me know how you get on :)

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Thanks BadgerNaboo, i'll give them a try and let you know. :)

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Try

www.bishopsmove.com

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I am only shipping CD's, DVD's and clothes and my boxes arrived on Monday - just need to start packing them. I am using Excess Baggage, as I have friends who work for the firm, so they are trying to get me a good discount.

Looking to go next month, its all getting very real now and family have already started crying.

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Thank you to you both Miss Clinque and ga1lf for the recommendations.

ga1lg good luck with the move! :)

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Good luck with the move where are you heading to?

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Heading to Vancouver, hand my letter of resignation in tomorrow - its all go at the moment with so much to do.

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We are also going London to Vancouver :) Not quite as soon as you though!!!

Good luck tomorrow

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Has anyone used EVL for shipping? Any comments,

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Try Whites as long as your not shipping vehicles they were fabulous with our household possesions but didn't secure motorbike properly three weeks of bouncing around at sea and one poorly fireblade later. Household goods all arrived in one piece and their service is excellent.

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I'll be moving from Rome, Italy to Vancouver in March (only clothing and books no furniture) and I need help selecting a reliable company. I've written to several and the best quote so far for 5 cubic meters of boxes has come from Pickfords for 1353 sterling www.pickfords.com. I'll check out the companies you've mentioned here. Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

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Hi we have just arrived in Ontario we used Simpsons removals in chesterfield they were brilliant both ends nothing broken and very well packed, ask for John Matkin very good price, tell him Dave Conaghan reccomended them

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Could you ask your airline to give you an air-freight quote? If you're not bringing much, that could work out cheaper.

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Airlines are way too expensive. To ship 10 cubic meters and to fly 1 cubic meter comes to about the same price.

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Can anyone tell me if you pay the entire amount prior to pickup? Is that normal?

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We went to Halifax from Edinburgh and used Anglo Pacific. Went no damages well and we were charged £3500 for a full container.:thumbup:

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Oh and we got an invoice later when it was delivered

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What size was your container?

http://www.srinternational.com/standard_containers.htm

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Erm not to sure :confused: but it was big enough to fit all the contents from our 3 bed and Shed. We had a lot of stuff.

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We are lookng to ship a full container in the summer from the Midlands to NS.

I have just done a search through the thread of the last 6 months or so and took a note of the companies who had three or more people recommend or warn about them. Thought I would share the results, as it took a surprisingly long time to find the information:

Whites + 2 -1
Robinsons +8 -1
Simpsons +2 -1
Dorree/Bonner +3 -0
GB Liners +9 -0
Anglo pacific +2 -1
Pickfords +3 -2
PSS +3 -3

Based on this I plan to get quotes from Robinsons, GB liners and Dorree/Bonner.

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Thanks for saving me the time Pebblebeach:) I was going to call Robinsons but wasn't too sure on what other 2 to call also :thumbup:

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We used Doree Bonner - OK for household stuff but not very good on clothes and personal belongings.