If moving house is one of the most stressful things you will ever do, then moving more than 3,000 miles could be at the top of that scale. So your choice of shipper for that aliyah move is crucial.
Stephen Morris Shipping has been moving people across the world for 48 years. The company’s expertise is in transporting high-value items safely in a cost-effective manner. Clients include five royal families, three British prime ministers and countless A-list celebrities and politicians, museums, galleries, auction houses etc, and we have also handled the odd fighter jet, London bus and submarine.
The process begins with a free physical survey at your home (wherever you live) to gain more information about your move and assess the volume to be packed and shipped. Video surveys will be conducted only when a physical survey is not possible, a rarity.
The survey will be followed with a written quotation for your move, full insurance documentation and even details of how to complain and who to complain to in case of a problem – but this too, is very rarely used. Your quotation will include all charges to deliver to your new home, excluding only any unknown and unavoidable charges for such things as import duties/taxes/inspections and any charges for an outside hoist/crane required due to access difficulties at the destination.
A form is provided for acceptance of the quotation and, once returned, dates for the packing and shipping can be agreed. Stephen Morris has multiple trained crews and vehicles, enabling multiple moves to be accommodated simultaneously, so we can meet most move date requirements.
The crew that comes to your home to pack will be fully trained and have experience of those moves and apply the same care to packing your contents as they would those of a prime minister. But the costs (for both a prime minister and for you) will remain sensible and affordable. Once the export packing has been completed, the shipping will be booked for dates that work for you and the container(s) booked to be loaded. The company will attend to the transport of the container to the UK port, UK port charges and UK customs formalities, sea freight to Israel, Israeli port charges, Israeli customs clearance and delivery to your new home. Casing for fragile items and valuable art can be included if required.
Stephen Morris Shipping has three warehouses with full shipping facilities – in London, Milton Keynes and Sheffield. From those locations, crews can be despatched anywhere in the UK and indeed worldwide.
They will take with them a comprehensive range of packing materials including cartons, packing paper, tissue, bubble laminate, edge protectors, card and tape. They will pack and protect everything, label each package/carton and create a full inventory to be checked off at both ends of the journey.
Preferably, your shipment will be loaded directly to a sea container outside your home. If this is not possible due to access or timing or the need to ship as a part-load (groupage), the company’s own fleet of vehicles can collect everything and remove it to one of the warehouses to be stored in secure wooden containers in a highly secure warehouse until shipment.
It is the very fact that Stephen Morris Shipping has its own trained crews, its own warehouses and its own fleet of vehicles that enables it to offer a complete, seamless move that extends into Israel, where its Israeli counterparts will offer a similar fast and friendly service to ensure that the move into your new home is as stress-free as possible. But ask those who have already made aliyah which company they would trust. It is always possible to do things more cheaply – but to do things better?
Stephen Morris Shipping: 020 8832 2222, stephen@shipsms.co.uk.
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