Moving From Vancouver to Belgrade

A friend of mine told me how well they organize their material sent abroad, which are always the losers. Opaque is an agreement in which you simply have to accept some unexpected changes, cost increases, lack of information, etc. I have also heard from people who send things overseas, but within Canada or the United . .. UU

My experience is similar to this account, but of course there is much more than that. When I'm happy that all my things arrived safely, nothing is lost or broken (although the "not broken" is largely due to my careful packing).

Anyway, here's the way it was for me. I began to inquire about shipping companies 4-5 months before the date of the move. I contacted a few and talked to some people who have done it before. Companies not impressed. Major seemed expensive - one of them asked 10K whole thing. By the way, wanted door to door service, ie including all individual costs. 10K seemed expensive, but now in retrospect, I was not as big a figure. Basically, I was hoping to get ahead in the range of 4-5K. Some smaller seemed almost amateur (collect your things, you pay us 5 km, we deliver, there is not much more than that actually).

I must say that one of the companies, in particular, its owner was so impressed that I immediately decided to go with them. Astra International is located in North Burnaby, in Lake City industrial park. I found on the Internet, and was going to contact them. But before that, a day on a lunch break that went through a headquarters and decided to pop in for a 5-minute introduction. Lady, the owner, although obviously very busy, happened to me, probably an hour explaining every detail, the production of forms, even took me to the cellar and showed me that everything is done, what the package looks like this some seem prepared shipments. After that conversation I had an excellent picture of what I have to do. Later I heard from others who took their service were very happy.

I wanted to send a BDR 2. material home and possibly a car, Honda Civic. It appeared that a 20-foot container would be sufficient. They compartments in the container for the material and the car and you can even build a platform over the car if necessary. They can pack up pretty well. However, I learned that you can not import the car, although it is practically new, due to different emission standards in Serbia. So I thought I need less space. Now that option is not much cheaper. When you are paying for the entire container, you pay a fixed price, say $ 5,000. But when you are using only part of it, then you pay per cubic meter, cubic meter and the first is twice the price. Then you have to buy wooden boxes, each one costs around 300-400. The boxes are necessary to protect and preserve their stuff. Especially if the carrier has a route where the change of transport. For example, a route is Hamburg, Germany by boat, and then load the material into a transport train. If they have a lot of cardboard boxes that can lose or break some of them in the reloading process, while if they have the boxes or the entire container is much safer.

Therefore, if you have less than a container of your stuff and go per cubic meter, the price will probably be a little lower if you took the entire container. In any case, it is necessary to calculate and see what is best.

In addition, estimating the amount of stuff you have is very difficult. Companies can get to your place and make an estimate, but generally do not like that - they all seem too busy to make a "trip" to her apartment. So what I did is that it measures all the boxes and packages and add all those values ​​and the "red" levels. I could not get my company to tell me how to measure the volume (because the "network" is the final volume - must have some slack when you load the container), and until we get that information after it is filled ( as I said, very opaque industry). I could only guess from the documentation, after all was over, but at that time did not matter much since the bill has already been presented to me. I can freely double the "red" levels for the last container will determine what you need and what you'll pay. But if you can get an estimation for you.



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