Thought some members may be interested ,..I got a quote today for a 20ft container to be sent to our house, 3 hours to load , then delivered to the port at Cebu for a price of £1050. Does that seem quite cheap to you ? The company was Seakargo , anyone heard of them ? Although I'm aware that the costs could start to mount up once the port officials get hold of it. I'm still waiting for a reply from Manila forwarders to give me a price for same, but door to door,..inc. customs clearance and port fees.
Dont send it with this crowd John...... http://www.british-filipino.com/showthread.php?7414-Snap!&highlight=snap
That looks like a pretty good deal, to me. However, three hours to load is very tight when loading household effects for sea passage unless you have some expert and fit people to help. Try to get a little longer. In stowing the box, remember these points: 1. As a guide, Pickfords say that the contents of the average three bedroom house will fill a twenty foot container. 2. In the Red Sea, the temperature inside the box will reach at least 40 deg C. 3. The box will be picked up by container cranes and banged down again quite hard - certainly hard enough to smash china that is not very well wrapped. 4. The box will roll up to 30 degrees each way and will be subject to fore and aft accelerations and decelerations of the order of 0.1 g. or so. 5. Use cardboard packing boxes and label them in a logical order 6. You will need a Packing List for Customs and for insurance showing the contents and the declared value 7. You absolutely must find and use a reliable Customs clearance agent in the Philippines - this can be the firm that delivers to your door.
Ha ha. Yes. I used to have to regularly pack 20ft plus "containers" with a range of items including chemicals in glass bottles, computers and screens, along with a heap of other stuff inside and everything had to be "lashed down" pretty tightly or else damage would be certain en route from the rig to Aberdeen by supply boat. And they certainly are great conductors of heat.
Also, keep in mind that your container will be spending its three hours on the trailer - to load it you need a warehouse type loading bay and a fork lift. There are ways to deal with this, such as having the container delivered to you for a longer period using a lift on lift off trailer, which puts the container on the ground. This involves the same arrangements that you would make for having a skip delivered.
Thanks for the advice , especially the packing. My work used to be loading containers last year, and the factory owner has said I can use the loading platform there. I was going to ask the local removals men to take the stuff from my house to the factory 2 minutes away and help load it. There's a Manitou teleporter that I can use.
That is a really good price. I looked into it a few years ago and got a price of something like £3500 all in for a 20ft and £4200 for a 40ft
Would these figures be almost the same if it were Manila to London? Very tempted to have furniture (sofas, bed frames, cabinets, etc) manufactured here in the Philippines then shipped to London if we get a place. We furnished a 2br condominium unit for about 13k GBP and it was pretty cheap compared to buying the stuff in Philippine malls
The prices will be somewhat higher because most of the trade in containerised goods is East to West. You will do better if you avoid the period in the run up to Christmas - February is a quite a slack time and you should do better then.
Thanks for that! Do those prices include customs duties and unloading already or just plain shipping?
I recently furnished a two bed house for around 1.4k GBP perhaps a business opportunity, if you puchase the container it could bring dry fish back
