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shipping boxes only
« on: May 21, 2009, 06:57:38 PM »
Based on prior advice, I've looked at  http://www.upakweship.com/  and  http://www.oceanfreightusa.com

I was going to go with upakweship since they ship door to door, and oceanfreightusa ships only to their container freight station.   

Does anyone know how much more it would cost to hire a mover to transport a small truckload (more than a van) of boxes to/within London?   Somewhere around 200-250cft, or 50 assorted boxes.

upakweship is ~$2000 for 200cft.
oceanfreightusa is ~$1100 for similar amounts.  Plus xxxGBP for extra movers to flat...
will xxx ~= 500GBP?  or less?
Any suggestions or any RECENT prior dealings with these companies, negative or positive?

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Re: shipping boxes only
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2009, 08:05:49 PM »
Don't know if ten months ago now still qualifies as recent, but if it helps, I had a suberb experience with UPak in July to September 2008.

I did warehouse-to-door, (me taking the boxes to an in-town warehouse where they shrink-wrapped and palletized then trucked it to Houston port, then at the UK end they cleared everything at port for me then delivered to my door) 100cf for $1,300, and the service was great. The one and only extra charge was a port fee of I think £34 payable by debit card over the phone, upon e-mail notification of the ship arriving at the London port, but we were told about that at the outset.

Everything went very smoothly, and was about seven weeks all told.

Edited to add: This won't be very helpful, but I seem to recall I looked into OceanFreight also, among the several companies who were candidates, and for some reason I didn't want to go with them. I wish I could remember what put me off, it may have been nothing bad, just something that didn't fit my own needs perhaps, I can't remember but something made me not want them.
« Last Edit: May 21, 2009, 08:09:47 PM by Midnight blue »
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