B4.4.1.1 Moving to New Zealand: Shipping stuff to NZ p2
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This article is from the New Zealand FAQ, by Phil Stuart-Jones and Lin Nah with numerous contributions by others.
B4.4.1.1 Moving to New Zealand: Shipping stuff to NZ p2
Frits Schouten adds:
"It's not really a followup on Richard Turners experience, but it's
certainly related. Five years ago or so, I had to move my household from
The Netherlands to New Zealand and using movers is not the cheapest way to
go.
"Here is my experience. Note: all prices are in US dollars unless
otherwise stated!
"Various big international movers quoted me between $7000 and $9000 for
door to door moving. Basically what they do is, pack your goods in a
container (20ft for a normal household) and ship it for you. This is an
easy way of doing it but not cheap. Also, if anything is broken on arrival
the insurance will pay for replacement. The insurance is in most cases
based on an itemised list of the contents of the container and is not
cheap. Normally 6% of the contents value.
"If you like a bit of challence in life you could do it my way.
"I went to a shipping company (NEDLLOYD) and asked them what it would cost
me to hire a 20ft container (you know the same one the movers were using)
to ship my household to New Zealand. Answer: $2500 from Rotterdam to
Auckland. I had to pay an aditional $150 for the truck to bring the
container to Rotterdam and agreed to have the transport in New Zealand
organised by their agent in Auckland. Here was a cost risk I was prepared
to take.
"The insurance is quite different. You can only insure the container for
total loss. You agree on a contents value and the premium is normally 1.3%
to 1.6% of that value. If the container goes overboard or is dropped from
a crane etc. the insurance pays out the value you have agreed. This means
that if, on arrival, you find lets say your beautiful mirror broken that is
then to bad. But that is not a problem because this will not happen you
know. You've packed it yourself :-)
"The people from NEDLLOYD gave me heaps of help and excellent information
on how to go about packing a container to get it flawless through customs
and MAF inspections.
"Bottom line is:
- Have a very detailed list of the contents of the container, like box
numbers and content lists per box.
- Very inportant is to state how everything is cleaned!!!
"The container arrived at the worst possible time of the year. The week
before Christmas. Anyway the local agent for NEDLLOYD worked out to be of
great value too (for the really keen ones, check out www.nedlloyd.com).
That was btw International Forwarding Co Ltd.
"We got a phone call from them telling me that the container had arrived
and if I could come to Auckland to organise the paperwork. I dropped in
just before lunch and the guy said: give me your passport and consignment
papers and I'll take care of the rest. Bit scary but. Come back after
lunch, please. So I did and guess what, everything was organised after
lunch. The only thing left was to pay an additional few hundred NZ dollars
to get the container to Papakura. The cost risk wasn't really there.
"Two day later the container arrived and within a few hours I had several
people asking if I had a garage sale. My whole household was on the front
lawn :-)
"Moral of the story is: take that challenge, it's exciting and it might
save you a lot money."
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John Mee wrote:
"The hot deal for shipping goods [from the US?] is via Australia-New
Zealand Direct Line, or any Conference member and ask them about using a
'Non-Operating Refigerated Container' (NOR). Because these are used to
ship meat OUT of Australia and New Zealand, they have to get them back
there, so the savings can be substantial.
"I was quoted a price of $1525 for a NOR container, as opposed to about
$3,500 for a regular container. I am not sure about the regular container,
but the NOR container, I just looked up in my notes.
ANZDL's home page is at:
http://www.anzdl.com/
"I would also look at the Port of Oakland's (California) home page which
has a lot of pointers to other shipping companies. It is at:
http://www.portofoakland.com/shipping.html
"At the rates for an NOR container, I seem to recall that the breakeven
pont for Less-than-Container-Load (LCL) was about three or four cubic
metres. On top of that, you can buy all kinds of stuff to fill your
container and then sell it when you arrive in NZ."
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