661 containers were lost overboard in 2022, out of 250m transported, representing the lowest losses in percentage since the World Shipping Council started the survey in 2008. That is less than one-thousandth of 1% of the containers shipped each year. Average losses for the past three previous years were standing...
If you have more than a U Crate 200's worth of stuff and may be some furniture, consider our shared container service. We have all inclusive rates from our terminal in South Carolina to your final destination overseas. All you do is book a Pod, U Haul Crate or...
When you are a physics professor at Purdue and obviously a very good carpenter, and moving to Germany you order a UPakWeShip pallet service and add wooden walls to it and make it a crate! Perfectly packed with same sized boxes, nicely labelled in a wood crate traveling from...
Guess where this lovely couple are moving to? They have done such a fantastic job packing and loading their pallets. It looks like they used the same size boxes to pack everything so it all stacked nicely together. The shrink wrapping and tie straps are perfect and obviously you can see...
Here is a great looking pallet picked up by our trucking partner SAIA . (Full marks if you can pronounce it as I've been trying to figure it out for years!) So as many of you probably know, the pallet service is a DIY thing where you find you own...
Moving to Portugal? Please read this before you go! Although the Golden Visa has been discontinued in Portugal, there are still multiple ways of moving and residing there and Portugal is still a hot spot for UPakWeShip. In fact, it is one of the top three destinations we ship to from...
If you are moving to England or anywhere else in the UK (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) you will need to complete a TOR form online (this link takes you to our customs forms page where we have info about the TOR) in order to see if your shipping...
I recently flew over to Amsterdam and visited the EU office. Here are some pictures of the office. Its a new build, powered by solar in a nice safe neighborhood. Perfect if you want to drop off your shipment and also perfect for us to load containers of U Crates...
Moving abroad alone can be an exciting and rewarding experience. You’ll need to get to grips with a new job, a new home, and a new life pretty quickly, but with only yourself to please, the opportunity and adventure can be hard to resist. But moving to a new country...
While shipping your goods might seem a fairly straightforward task, there’s much more to it than meets the eye. With various shipping types, there’s a whole range of international shipping terms to go with them – all to ensure your goods are in the right place at the right time...