Shipping a car overseas

[Bob_Defly]

I remember looking into this years and years ago, and it was about £1K, including insurance.

Anyone know what it is now? Especially if you have a container to yourself? Can you get a half size container, like 20' or something?

I would be shipping from the UK to the US or Canada.

[Kev T360]

Did thieves steal £170,000 Ferrari racing car to order? Hummmmmm.......shipping container you say?

[Ozzie Osmond]

Ro-Ro is by far the cheapest.

I'd be guessing £2k for Ro-Ro and £4k for a container (inclusive).

[999gsi]

Kev T360 said:

Did thieves steal £170,000 Ferrari racing car to order? Hummmmmm.......shipping container you say?

[WhereamI]

I'm shipping a car to Australia at the moment, my quotes were a 20ft container at £1,740 whereas sending it by RoRo was £1,157.

So presumably less to the USA/Canada...

[Bob_Defly]

Kev T360 said:

Did thieves steal £170,000 Ferrari racing car to order? Hummmmmm.......shipping container you say?

I'm assuming Ro-Ro means driving it on and off? If so, I'm also assuming you have to be there at both ends, or let someone from the ship do it for you? Isn't that how many Japanese imports came to the UK with blown turbo's etc as the monkey from the ship would rev the nuts off it at the dock?

If I choose the Ro-Ro route, is there any way to protect against this?

[WhereamI]

Bob_Defly said:

Kev T360 said:

Did thieves steal £170,000 Ferrari racing car to order? Hummmmmm.......shipping container you say?

I'm assuming Ro-Ro means driving it on and off? If so, I'm also assuming you have to be there at both ends, or let someone from the ship do it for you? Isn't that how many Japanese imports came to the UK with blown turbo's etc as the monkey from the ship would rev the nuts off it at the dock?

If I choose the Ro-Ro route, is there any way to protect against this?

You don't drive it on or off, they do. Received wisdom is that a container is safer but manufacturers use RoRo, you pay your money and take your choice and take out insurance for any damage.

[Bob_Defly]

I suppose, but some abuse may not show up until a later date.

[Bob_Defly]

WhereamI said:

I'm shipping a car to Australia at the moment, my quotes were a 20ft container at £1,740 whereas sending it by RoRo was £1,157.

So presumably less to the USA/Canada...

What did you choose in the end?

[WhereamI]

This is going in a container, but it's not my car, I'm organising it for a friend.

Whether container or RoRo is better is hard to know, another advantage of container is that it is much easier to arrange, there are lots of container ships, not so many RoRo are going to where you want. The big RoRo customers are the manufacturers, your car will be just filling spare space so it can take a while to get on a ship.

[folos]

WhereamI said:

This is going in a container, but it's not my car, I'm organising it for a friend.

Whether container or RoRo is better is hard to know, another advantage of container is that it is much easier to arrange, there are lots of container ships, not so many RoRo are going to where you want. The big RoRo customers are the manufacturers, your car will be just filling spare space so it can take a while to get on a ship.

Not a ferrari is it?

[WhereamI]

folos said:

WhereamI said:

This is going in a container, but it's not my car, I'm organising it for a friend.

Whether container or RoRo is better is hard to know, another advantage of container is that it is much easier to arrange, there are lots of container ships, not so many RoRo are going to where you want. The big RoRo customers are the manufacturers, your car will be just filling spare space so it can take a while to get on a ship.

Not a ferrari is it?

No, but it is amazing how easy it is to export a vehicle you don't own.

[Ozzie Osmond]

WhereamI said:

I'm shipping a car to Australia at the moment, my quotes were a 20ft container at £1,740 whereas sending it by RoRo was £1,157.

If that includes insurance (as OP specified) I'd say it's bargain of the week?

[WhereamI]

Ozzie Osmond said:

WhereamI said:

I'm shipping a car to Australia at the moment, my quotes were a 20ft container at £1,740 whereas sending it by RoRo was £1,157.

If that includes insurance (as OP specified) I'd say it's bargain of the week?

Insurance depends on the value of the vehicle, I think it comes in at something like 2%.

Of course shipping is only the start of it, particularly if going to Australia, there's a whole bunch of taxes and other charges to pay that make the shipping a relatively small part of it.