International Moves
International moves are undertaken with the same enthusiasm and knowledge as our domestic service. Customers moving with Moving Home Made Easy are put in the hands of staff specially trained in importing and exporting of household goods.
Your delivery dates, be it arrival at port or custom cleared and delivered to your residence, will be forwarded to you in good time. Custom restrictions and documentation advice will be available from our specially assigned overseas representative appointed to deal with every stage of your move to ensure any concerns you may have are shouldered by ourselves, leaving you to deal with other matters.
There are various ways of transporting your goods around the world, usually determined by volume of goods, urgency and cost.
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Sea Freight
Goods going by sea freight are generally placed in 2 sizes of container; either 20 feet (1050 cubic feet) or 40 feet (2100 cubic feet), and ferried by container ship to the nearest container port to your destination. Sea freight charges are calculated on the overall volume of your consignment.
Full Container Load (FCL)
In the instance a container will be assigned solely for exclusive use. Delivered directly to your door, your goods will be loaded customs sealed, delivered directly to the port of sailing for immediate transportation. In many instances the container can be delivered directly to your new destination address.
Groupage
Your goods will share a container with other customers this is cost effective in the respect that you only pay for the space you utilise.
Less Container Load (LCL)
Your goods are export cased by our staff at either your home or our warehouse and delivered directly to the container terminal at the port of departure and placed in a container for shipping by the shipping line.
Air Freight
Goods are placed in enclosed airline pallets and placed inside an airplane cargo hold. Charges are calculated on weight and volume. Advantages include speed of delivery and can be cost effective for smaller consignments.
Road Van
Generally used only for European consignments. Goods are loaded at our warehouse on vans bound for your destination. This can be either a part load (dates mutually agreed) or a special run with dates dictated and tailored by your own requirements. VAT applies on deliveries within the E.U.