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Personal Effects Shipping Guide by Spratt Personal Shipping

Personal Goods Shipping Guide

In Ireland’s current economic climate, although getting better, there is still a lot of people emigrating abroad or foreign nationals and students moving back home onto either more attractive jobs pay wise and countries with cheaper and more quality style of living. These people would need to move their household goods or personal goods with them. Other terms include personal effects, personal belongings, mini moves and excess baggage. For the latter, excess baggage can be very costly when booking direct with airlines, however if you contact a freight forwarding or shipping company in Ireland you will always get a much cheaper value rate.

When you make the decision to leave the country and move abroad, you will need to choose the right personal shipping company in Ireland who specialize in personal moves  and who can take care of everything to leave you stress free such as Spratt Personal Shipping. Once you have found the right company who can offer you the best balance of cost-effectiveness, speed, reliability and reputation you are ready to start packing. Have the goods ready for the shipping company to either collect from your premises / residence / home or if you prefer you should have the option of delivering everything direct from your Ireland base to the shipping companies own warehouse facility.

Once the shipping company receive your shipment at the warehouse facility, a quality shipping company should always offer to shrink-wrap and where possible, palletise your goods (i.e. build the goods onto a pallet). Palletising  your goods involve putting your goods on a secure pallet, shrink-wrapping the pallet and then banding the shipment if desired. For personal effects shipping, this is highly recommended and usually included in the cost from the quote provided to you by the shipping company in Ireland. Whilst this is usually included in the original quote, bear in mind that you will still pay for the extra space a wooden pallet takes up size wise by the time your goods are palletised although this usually isn’t much of an increase in space.

A shipping company will usually have a few different methods to move your goods. These are air, sea/ocean and road freight.  The cost varies for each method of shipping and you would need to provide as much information that you can to the Irish shipping company in order to receive the most cost-effective method for you. For airfreight for example, if you had a box, suitcase or travel bag etc. at a weight of 35kgs then this would usually be your most cost-effective option, however any more than that is usually cheaper to send by sea freight. Air freight is charged by weight however volumetric weights also apply. Sea freight is normally charged by the size only. For air and sea freight this would usually be for further destinations such as a different continent. The opposite can be said for road freight as this service is usually for closer moves abroad i.e. if you are moving within the same continent. Road freight is charged a few different ways depending on what type of goods you have, how much goods you have etc.

Once you have decided to proceed with the shipping of your goods and have all the required booking documentation completed and sent to the shipping company, you are ready to proceed with the movement of your goods. As a private individual, payment will always be required to be paid up front before any goods leave the shipping companies warehouse to chosen destination.

When your shipment arrives at the destination, you may be required to pay customs/handling charges if shipping from one EU country to a Non-EU country. This is the owner of the goods responsibility only. The shipping company have no control over these charges. Once these charges are paid, the goods will be released to the receiver at destination.