[markkh]

I've quoted about £900 for the transporttion of 2.5 sq meters worth of cargo from UK to NZ. Is this about right? I thought it cost about 3000 to hire a container so £900 seems a lot for a small spot? any advice welcome

[TonnyTessa]

Does seem quite a lot, I paid £1600 or so for my 9 cubic meters. I guess a large part comes from the paperwork, transport from home to port and from port to home. That doesn't change that much with the volume. Worth trying a few more companies so you can compare

[markkh]

Does seem quite a lot, I paid £1600 or so for my 9 cubic meters. I guess a large part comes from the paperwork, transport from home to port and from port to home. That doesn't change that much with the volume. Worth trying a few more companies so you can compare

Thanks TonnyTessa, yeah I thought it was a bit high..i'll keep shopping around. Thanks for replying

[Twig]

I've quoted about £900 for the transporttion of 2.5 sq meters worth of cargo from UK to NZ. Is this about right? I thought it cost about 3000 to hire a container so £900 seems a lot for a small spot? any advice welcome

We paid for half a container (500 cubic sq) for £2550, so in comparison, that seems quite steep but you might be paying more because it's such a small amount.

[markkh]

We paid for half a container (500 cubic sq) for £2550, so in comparison, that seems quite steep but you might be paying more because it's such a small amount.

thanks Twig, I've got onto them now. Hopefully they'll come back with something a bit better. cheers, Mark

[mikey and tor]

have you tried PSS?
they gave us a very good quote indeed.

[nickiware]

Our 20 foot container will be 3600 pounds if that helps

[92Immigrant]

Take my advice, don't ship stuff over. Keep it to an absolute minimum. People always tell me that they regretted it.

Dave.

[IanW99]

Take my advice, don't ship stuff over. Keep it to an absolute minimum. People always tell me that they regretted it.

Dave.

So did you ship all your stuff over and regretted it?

Ian

[YouMeAndThree]

People always tell me that they regretted it.

Dave.

There's plenty on the forum who would agree with you there, but also the same number who would disagree, me included :) I have found it quite comforting having some familiar things around me and it's also settling for my children too, plus a lot of our white goods and sofa's were virtually new (it was a sudden decision to move to NZ otherwise we wouldn't have bought them in the first place).

We paid around £4K for a 40 ft container. Hope you get a better price through as that sounds a bit steep.

[dilanium]

There's plenty on the forum who would agree with you there, but also the same number who would disagree, me included :)

I also disagree. I am very glad for bringing my things over. We didn't bring much (15 boxes worth) and brought most of it as excess baggage so it was a real pain in the airport, but it was worth every penny to me to have my books, my kitchen supplies, my dvds, video games (and systems) etc. We didn't bring any furniture though as we didn't really have anything that valuable that we wanted to ship, and I've accumulated furniture that I like much more now (but it took almost a whole year for me to settle in with the new furniture).

I think it really depends on what makes a house a home for people. For me it takes a while to get comfortable. Having some personal goods around me really helped (as did having my cat).

[92Immigrant]

So did you ship all your stuff over and regretted it?

Ian

No, just 2 suitcases. :nice1

The customs officer could hardly believe it.

Dave.

[mylesdw]

We shipped a wooden crate last year at 1.3 cubic metres. It came out at 100 ukp per cubic metre and on top of that, extra costs totalling just under ukp 60, so you should expect to pay ukp300 to ukp350 for yours. On top of that is the cost of buying a crate, getting it to the shippers and the NZ costs which were around NZ$200 (as far as I can remember).