Originally Posted by katiejane

we used a guy called philip white, he was really good, and a lot cheaper than the others i spoke to, if you google philip white freight his website should come up xx

Originally Posted by VEROVITA

Dear all,

We are relocating from south africa to sicily. We are considering shipping our household contents to the UK (shippers warehouse in south london) then adding a few items being passed on to us by UK family and then getting quotes for it to be driven to sicily in a truck.

Will this be exhorbitant do you think? The alternative is to ship direct from SA to sicily and have a smaller van deliver the stuff from the family.

Any comments or advice will be appreciated!!
THANKS

Originally Posted by 6monthshere6monthsthere

Shipping an extra 3000 miles and getting your stuff unloaded then stored and re loaded does not seem likely to be cheaper!

k

Originally Posted by VEROVITA

We have been quoted about R70,000 from here to sicily and about R30,000 from here to the UK. So if it will be more than R40,000 to get from UK to sicily we wont bother. We just thought it would save the extra cost of shipping things from SA and shipping a few pieces from the UK - made more sense to ship them together.

I made contact with Philip White (as per earlier suggestion) and he is trying to put a quote together for us - extreemly helpful guy

Didnt mean to hijack the thread - just wanted guidance on costs from UK to Italy



Thanks very much for the comments

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy

It's not just the cost. having your goods transhipped is a recipie for disaster whatever the carrier tells you unless the effects are very securely packed. It stands a chance that it wont be the same company that does it (they will probably sub contract the second leg).

Add to the freight costs all the transhipment costs and the Customs clearance in the UK

Originally Posted by 6monthshere6monthsthere

Just as a note to anyone else looking at this thread.

For a small fee I am willing to do the long drives for you

35 years old
no accidents in 15 years of driving, 100% clean license no speeding tickets etc

Non drinker
Non smoker

Have done deliveries and house removals in the past.

From the UK to Italy (or back)
£0.90 per mile, will help load and unload also.

Plus £30 per day with max miles per day 500, if its practical to chop an 1100 mile route to 2 days I will do it, but assume that I would not so you can be delighted if I can!

Hire the van and I will get it done for you - you need to add £99 to cost for independent contents insurance.

so as guesstimates

edinburgh to sicily would be £1920 (4 days and 2000 miles)
edinburgh to Turin would be £1094
aberdeen to turin would be £1175

glasgow to Turin would be (probably would not go to Glasgow) har har


you get the picture

thanks


Just as a note to the MODs

This is not my job and its no problem if you delete this as I have PMd the original poster.
This route happens to fit with my plans (as you may be aware from my other recent posts).

I worked the rates out of the top of my head, I have done 2 routes to Italy for people, Bologna and Augusta (southern Sicily)

thanks again

Originally Posted by Mitzyboy

I'm sorry, this is not a place for business transactions

I suggest if you are going to talk about this then please do it by pm, away from the forums

Originally Posted by onmywaytomilan

This was dealt with in a PM.