International Relocations

Moving Overseas? World Moving & Storage Ltd offers a range of services to meet all your needs. Be it a single box (such as a tea chest), a vehicle, a part house lot or a full home, your personal and household effects will be treated with the utmost care and respect.

Our Sales Representative will visit you at your residence or office, at a date and time suitable to you, for an obligation free quotation. In most cases after about 3/4 hour of surveying your home and discussing your needs, we can give you an "on the spot" quote and full inventory of all the goods that you wish to send. Our people can do this because we use the latest technology in your home to survey with and are very confident in our knowledge. We will discuss all your needs and the best and or most economical option for your move, whether by sea or by air. Our promise is to offer you the best service available.

World Moving’s highly trained packing team will come to your house to pack and wrap your effects and load your goods for your final destination (we can provide references if required). We are equipped to handle all aspects of your removal, including crating of specific items, special wrap on leather furnishings/ oil paintings and antiques.

We can even move your pets, boats and motor vehicles. See our links page for relevant sites to assist with various countries’ regulations and permitting.

Through our long standing membership of the internationally respected Household Forwarders Association of America (now called IAM), World Moving and Storage Ltd can select the best overseas Agents who will guarantee the safe professional service we are proud to offer our clients. These service partners have proven to be a secure extension of our promise to you as “Experience & Advice You Can Trust”.

Transportation and Terminology

Household effects can be transported internationally by various types of services depending on the quantity of effects, the speed of delivery required, routing and cost considerations.

The terminology applied to the various modes of transport available can be confusing and to assist you we have prepared the following summary for your information:

Sea Freight

With sea freight your household effects are loaded into large steel containers, which are then carried to your new destination by modern container ships. There are two main sizes of containers used for household effects shipments, a 20ft and a 40ft. Sea freight charges are calculated on the overall volume of your household effects being transported within the container. There are 3 common methods of sea freight:-

Full Container Load (F.C.L)

This term applies to a container loaded, on a ‘sole use’ or ‘exclusive use’ basis. F.C.L’s can usually be positioned and loaded at your home, sealed in your presence, delivered directly to the port of export, and shipped on the best available vessel to coincide with your arrival in your new destination. On arrival at your new port (except for Australia), the container can normally be delivered directly to your new residence for unpacking subject to local Customs and Ministry of Agricultural requirements, provided that it is a direct delivery from dockside and not via storage. There may be instances where a sole use container is more economical than sending a smaller LCL consignment, even if you do not fill the container.

Groupage Consignment (Shared Container)

This is a very popular option to our main destinations as it is cheaper than sending a whole container just for your goods, it is also cheaper and safer than a LCL shipment. With this service your household effects are loaded and shipped with other household consignments in a shared container when there is sufficient volume to fill a container. We will give an estimated time of shipment based on our average transit times e.g. Approximately 4 - 6 weeks to Sydney or Aproximately 10 - 12 weeks to London, but please note this is an estimate. Sometimes the container will be filled and shipped earlier, but occasionally volumes build slower to fill the container and the container is delayed.

Less than a Container Load (L.C.L)

Your household effects, after packing, are loaded into purpose built crates and then sent through a general freight forwarder for shipment to your new destinations, via steel shipping containers to the nearest port. This service is beneficial for consignments that are of a small volume and are going to a country with lower traffic volumes to or from New Zealand. LCL is a safe service if organised and packaged correctly, but it does cost a little more per cubic meter than a Groupage consignment due to extra packaging costs, higher crated volume, higher freight cost and higher destination services charges. The only extra risk is the goods can be loaded into a container with many different types of freight, unlike Groupage consignment where we load only personal effects "like freight". We do a lot of LCL consignments around the world and they run very smoothly.

Roll on Roll off (RORO)

This is where a vehicle, boat or machinery is driven or craned onto a ship. We do offer this service for larger goods but prefer the safety of shipping personal cars inside shipping containers. There is far less risk of damage and tampering in a container and the extra cost is minimal.

Air freight

Following the packing and collection of your effects, they are then delivered to the Airline, secured in enclosed airline pallets (Igloos), loaded into the cargo hold of the aircraft and flown directly to the nearest airport of your destination. On arrival, if required, we will arrange collection, customs clearance and delivery to your new home.

Air freight has the advantage of speed and is a great idea for essential items that you will need when you first get to your new country until your sea freight goods arrive. All air freight charges are calculated on weight or a volume/weight ratio, which ever is greater i.e. 1m3 will be charged at 167kg even if the actual weight for your 1m3 is only 105kg.

Dangerous Goods

Certain commodities cannot be accepted for storage or transportation and we have listed some examples below.

• Explosives
• Flammable Gases
• Flammable Liquids
• Flammable Solids
• Poisons and Toxins

Shipping Container Sizes:

Here are the four main Shipping Line containers and their sizes that we use for shipping your goods. Please note that when loading a container just over 12.5% cubic capacity is unable to be utilised due to small air gaps and volume of packing material. We expect aproximately 28m3 to fit in a 20ft FCL.

m3 = cubic meters (Length x Width x Hieght)

cu.ft = cubic feet.

1m3 = 35.315 cu.ft

20 ft Standard Dry Container

20 ft High Cube Dry Container

Only available for some Australian ports ex NZ

These are 300mm taller inside 

40 ft Standard Dry Container

40 ft High Cube Dry Container

Avaliable for all ports

300mm taller than a standard 40 ft container

 If you have any concerns please discuss with our representative, at the time of survey or contact us directly and we will advise you.