Geordie8888 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I'm looking at shipping a trailer from the UK to the US, door to door. Does anybody know of a shipping company that could arrange this for me. Alternatively, is there anybody who is just about to ship a vehicle over who could share a container with me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I'm looking at shipping a trailer from the UK to the US, door to door. Does anybody know of a shipping company that could arrange this for me. Alternatively, is there anybody who is just about to ship a vehicle over who could share a container with me? Kingstown Shipping in Hull, ask for Steve, Alan, or Mark, tell them Gordon sent you :blush: They will organise local pickup here, consolidated container shipping, and local delivery in the US. As cheap as anyone else I've used and much more efficient as shipping this sort of stuff is their core business. ( No commercial connection, but the more people I refer the more biscuits I get when I visit ) Gordon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie8888 Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Kingstown Shipping in Hull, ask for Steve, Alan, or Mark, tell them Gordon sent you :blush: They will organise local pickup here, consolidated container shipping, and local delivery in the US. As cheap as anyone else I've used and much more efficient as shipping this sort of stuff is their core business. ( No commercial connection, but the more people I refer the more biscuits I get when I visit ) Gordon Fantastic Gordon - will give them a go. Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 No problem, Whatever Kingstown quote feel free to try to get something cheaper, but the one time I used someone else ( no names ) to ship trailers to Canada they arrived in bits ... Bottom line costs would be around £1 per loaded mile for the pickup, and $1 per loaded mile for the delivery, plus container percentage, dockside taxes, etc. Be aware there may be additional taxes payable before it can be delivered, not too much, but your receiver and you should have some agreement about squaring up for those. Kingstown will give you numbers, but have to hand the length, width, height and weight of the item before you call, plus the pickup postcode and delivery zip code, and do make sure you send a good Bill of Sale with it, copies up front to Kingstown and your receiving party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulbrook Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 100% agree - Kingstown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzaw Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Ditto Kingstown Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie8888 Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 No Luck with Kingstown - they don't have many shipments going to the US, only the other way around. They also think it could ber very costly trying to ship the trailer to the US as a part load. :-( Anybody got any more ideas? I'll also post something in the shipping forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzaw Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 What about car exporters (or importers in US) who may have spare capacity in one of their containers? Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Hmmm, sorry about that, though I'll admit most of my stuff has come this way across the pond. Might be worth staying in touch with Kingstown in case they have a client that needs to ship a container out and it has space in it, Apart from that I wouldn't recommend anyone else as my other shipping experiences have been - less than ideal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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