Category Archives: Moving to a New Country

What to Do Before You Move Overseas

Are you considering an international move in 2024? You’ll have an enormous amount of stuff to do to prepare for an overseas move – everything from researching your destination to making memories with friends to searching for the best affordable shipping. The very first step is to start making a list of all of those Read More >

Why Use Surface Shipping When You Move Overseas?

If you are planning to study abroad, relocate overseas for a job, retire in another country or make an international move for any other reason, you will need to debate air shipping versus surface shipping. Sometimes you have little choice. That bedroom set is not going on an aeroplane, after all! Or if you have Read More >

Making Yourself at Home When You Move Abroad

When you move overseas, you can expect to experience a mash up of conflicting emotions. Excitement, anxiety, wonder, homesickness, pride. They’re all part of it. You can, however, minimise the hard parts with a bit of prep. When you are preparing to ship your belongings internationally, you can start preparing to hit the ground running Read More >

Door to Door Shipping for Your Overseas Move

International door to door shipping can make your move much easier. Sorting out everything you own, deciding what to bring and then packing it all up is time-consuming. Bringing it all to the port yourself means spending time in traffic that you could be using to learn more about your destination or even get some Read More >

Shipping Personal Effects to UK Post Brexit

Our parents and grandparents might have just hopped on the ferry to England, taken a friend’s recommendation for a boarding house and started looking for work. We live in a very different world now. Brexit has changed the process for importing personal effects to the UK. To avoid customs duty on personal belongings, you need Read More >