International shipment for household

AliciaCC · Post by **AliciaCC** » Tue, 17 Aug 2010 5:45 pm

Dear all, please give me some suggestions ~
I am moving out of SG (to beijing China) and I am looking into the method and cost for moving my personal stuff. no furniture, mostly books and cloths. I m thinking about sea shipment~~ anyone have any idea about which company i should go to and how they gonna charge for it?

thankssssssssss

Leesh

beppi · Post by **beppi** » Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:44 pm

Singpost

Everything else will cost more!
(Unless you ship a whole container, but without furniture I think that's unlikely.)

Fineke · Post by **Fineke** » Mon, 06 Sep 2010 9:10 pm

Hi Alicia, If it around 2-3 boxes better to use DHL/FedEx

Mad Scientist · Post by **Mad Scientist** » Thu, 09 Sep 2010 7:14 am

AliciaCC wrote:Dear all, please give me some suggestions ~
I am moving out of SG (to beijing China) and I am looking into the method and cost for moving my personal stuff. no furniture, mostly books and cloths. I m thinking about sea shipment~~ anyone have any idea about which company i should go to and how they gonna charge for it?

thankssssssssss

Leesh

If it less than 1 metre cubic or M3 they call it, go for LCL freight via Hong Kong or direct by sea. Much cheaper than DHL or Fedex.
DHL has a limit of 25kg on Jimbo box. Will cost you about $350.00 on retail then . Not sure now.
If thru account $250.00
1 m3 will cost about $500.00 Shop around for freight company that can do that. Shipment time 5 days on ocean

Snow Ball · Post by **Snow Ball** » Sun, 12 Sep 2010 1:12 am

Just a few boxes? Maybe better to pay for excess baggage @ the airport?

Post by **sundaymorningstaple** » Sun, 12 Sep 2010 1:31 am

Well, snowball, guess you melted now that you got your five posts in just so you could use the PM function.

Mad Scientist · Post by **Mad Scientist** » Sun, 12 Sep 2010 6:06 am

Snow Ball wrote:Just a few boxes? Maybe better to pay for excess baggage @ the airport?

Well the excess baggage is about $13.00 per kg if I am not wrong. Go figure !!

Snow Ball · Post by **Snow Ball** » Sun, 12 Sep 2010 8:30 pm

no no....seriously....it is better to just check it in. China is too tough....my friends told me that it takes about 1-2 months just to get the documentation ready. so i figured that if anyone asks me, i will say, if only 4-5 boxes, better to pay for excess baggage. you get it immediately!

Mad Scientist · Post by **Mad Scientist** » Mon, 13 Sep 2010 4:25 am

Snow Ball wrote:no no....seriously....it is better to just check it in. China is too tough....my friends told me that it takes about 1-2 months just to get the documentation ready. so i figured that if anyone asks me, i will say, if only 4-5 boxes, better to pay for excess baggage. you get it immediately!

This is really BS. I have been sending and receiving stuff from Mainland China with no problemo. Yeah right "your friend said the other friend said that actually no one did "You thought China is in Ice Age. well think again.

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