If you have something really fragile like a piece of coral, put it in a shoe box and fill the box with rice and tape it up and place inside a regular moving carton. The rice (uncooked of course) fills all the little gaps around the item, keeping it in place...

20 May, 2011 /
When moving electrical items keep the little black box plug thingy with the item. Its really hard to try and figure out which plug goes with each item the other end and if you get it wrong and plug your drill plug into your bug zapper as I did you end up with not just the bugs fried but the whole machine!
09 May, 2011 /

One of our competitors went bust this week leaving shipments stranded all over the world. Make sure whomever you move with that they have a license and the financial bonds in place that if things go wrong, the financial guarantee bonds can kick in and pay shipping lines and agents to...

05 April, 2011 /

Thinking about Moving Overseas? Here are few tips to help you. Go and visit the place in advance at least once. Make sure you like their culture, the weather, the people, and check out housing prices, schools if needed, local taxes & cost of living. Enquire early on about Visa requirements, paperwork...

29 March, 2011 /

A big "Thank you" to UPakWeShip/EuroUSA and WS Logistics!! You have both done an absolutely excellent job shipping our household from the USA to the UK. The container has arrived safely in the UK in an excellent condition. On both ends of the ocean, we have received a top-notch service...

25 March, 2011 /

A customer moving to New Zealand called me today and asked was it ok to pack his things into Banana boxes. Answer is absolutly not! 1/ Australia and New Zealand do not like anything living coming into their country and if they see fruit boxes they are likely to put...

08 March, 2011 /

This is a good picture of a 20ft shipping container just arriving at the residence. The driver is opening the doors before reversing up the driveway. Thanks Krista for sending this to us....

07 March, 2011 /

When packing cardboard cartons, please make sure you load completly full. If you tape up the top and there is space between the lid of the box and its contents, when you stack another box on top of it the one underneath will collapse. If you have space left at...

02 March, 2011 /

Last　November　my Mom used your company to arrange a shipment for me from the States. She accidentally made errors on some of the paperwork so once the shipment arrived in England I was required to fill in some additional documents. I have a new baby and things are a bit of...

28 February, 2011 /