International auto shipping- who has done it?

Who should I go with. There car is coming from The UK. I want a fair price, but want if in one undamaged piece. Any red flags to look for.

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Rat Hawk
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I have done it a couple of times the other way: 1953 coupe from USA to Finland / Sweden -even picked one Hawk from UK myself. hhat I have learned is to avoid so called Ro-Ro vessels which are mainly used for new car transportation ( also for newer used cars) It is safer to have your car loaded into either a 20 foot container or to ship in a shared 40 feet container with 1-2 other cars. The company handling the loading of the container should have experience how to load old cars - otherwise some things may not go as planned. Same goes with unloading...

There are companies that do more the other way - from US ports to Sweden or UK and so on. But they tend to have reliable contacts in the US ports as well.

I know that a company in Sweden is shipping a 4-digit figure of old American classics from various ports to Sweden. ( I used them once a couple of years ago to have my former 1953 coupe shipped from N.Y.)to Sweden/Finland. If you want I can send you the contact information. ( They have a network covering also UK and they ship also cars from Europe to various US destinations.)

Pekka from Helsinki

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PekkaP

Some container brokers / shippers will pack the container with other goods, like small packages. This can result in a discount for you or a hidden added profit for the shipper, depending upon if you know it's done. One guy ebejn got a doublre-drcker bus over here for free, by packing the bys with small packages, I hear. Will you be there to meet it?

Karl

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"Rat Hawk" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...

20 years ago I bought three cars, the remains of a wrecked late '64 Avanti, the NOS R-3 and R-4 engines and a bunch of spares from a man in Birmingham, England. He packed everything in two ocean containers and arranged a shipping agent on his end. I found an international freight forwarder at the Port of Baltimore who arranged the receipt of everything including going through customs (he told them the stuff was US origin and they signed off without even looking). Except for an aggravating decision by the ocean carrier, everything went smooth as silk- no damage or shortages. This was in spite being loaded at Cork, Ireland, trucked to Waterford, loaded on a small container ship which took them to Hamburg, Germany where they were re-loaded on a larger container ship which crossed the North Atlantic in the winter (rough). The ship was supposed to bring the containers to Baltimore where my freight forwarder would hold them for me to unload at his facility about 35 miles from me. The ship decided it didn't have enough cargo for Baltimore so they dropped the containers at Norfolk and hired truckers to bring them to Baltimore. The truckers wouldn't leave the containers so the freight forwarder had to unload them into his warehouse. I was in South America while this was going on. However, everything was fine. So, you might try to line up an international freight forwarder at the port you intend to use. Let them deal with the shipment. It might cost you a little more, but that is what they do and they know how to do it. For one, marine insurance is MUCH different from land or air shipments and it requires special expertise to handle. Go for it. Paul Johnson
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