Importing with Sea Kargo :-(

Importing with Sea Kargo :-(

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SRT Hellcat

7,017 posts

216 months

Saturday 26th January 2019
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I have used transmotion based in Tilbury twice. They have been excellent with no issues

Peter-wh3mo

4 posts

59 months

Saturday 20th April 2019
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I'd like to bring a scruffy, gutted and partially stripped Triumph TR project with spare chassis, back from Arkansas to Essex. And would appreciate if anyone can advise me of the cheapest way to do this.? The car is rolling and steering and I'm presuming all the mechanical and trim loose bits (save the separate chassis) will be packed inside it for transport..

I contacted both Schumacher and SeaKargo for a quote on the 4th of this month. I think each consolidate cars into containers down in Huston Tx, and that's a 900 mile collection round trip to / from Little Rock, AK - so I can only imagine it'll be overly expensive. 16 days later and I haven't had a reply from either. Now it's Easter so their replies will be later still.

Naturally I can't proceed even with the purchase if I don't know how much the shipping is going to cost. Following a previous recommendation, I looked at STS Imports website - and they pack their container and ship from North Miami Beach, Florida. How might I get a rolling shell and a chassis from AK to Florida (securely but cheaply) ?

or is perhaps better / cost effective to see if I can buy a 20ft container for myself in Arkansas, have that loaded and then simply have it picked up and shipped - thereby avoiding any other handling or packing ? A 20ft container would be very useful to me here anyway, and perhaps Arkansas might be a good place to buy one on the cheap.? But then I don't know how container plating works and I wouldn't want to buy one ..and then find out the shipping companies won't handle it because its license is out of date.

I'd appreciate any polite(ish) suggestions. Thanks,
Pete (a newbie hereabouts).

Total loss

2,138 posts

226 months

Saturday 20th April 2019
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Peter-wh3mo said:
I'd like to bring a scruffy, gutted and partially stripped Triumph TR project with spare chassis, back from Arkansas to Essex. And would appreciate if anyone can advise me of the cheapest way to do this.? The car is rolling and steering and I'm presuming all the mechanical and trim loose bits (save the separate chassis) will be packed inside it for transport..

I contacted both Schumacher and SeaKargo for a quote on the 4th of this month. I think each consolidate cars into containers down in Huston Tx, and that's a 900 mile collection round trip to / from Little Rock, AK - so I can only imagine it'll be overly expensive. 16 days later and I haven't had a reply from either. Now it's Easter so their replies will be later still.

Naturally I can't proceed even with the purchase if I don't know how much the shipping is going to cost. Following a previous recommendation, I looked at STS Imports website - and they pack their container and ship from North Miami Beach, Florida. How might I get a rolling shell and a chassis from AK to Florida (securely but cheaply) ?

or is perhaps better / cost effective to see if I can buy a 20ft container for myself in Arkansas, have that loaded and then simply have it picked up and shipped - thereby avoiding any other handling or packing ? A 20ft container would be very useful to me here anyway, and perhaps Arkansas might be a good place to buy one on the cheap.? But then I don't know how container plating works and I wouldn't want to buy one ..and then find out the shipping companies won't handle it because its license is out of date.

I'd appreciate any polite(ish) suggestions. Thanks,
Pete (a newbie hereabouts).
Peter
Give Kingstown a ring and discuss your requirements, I've talked to them about shipping non-runners from inland USA and its something they can do, even paying the seller on your behalf.
http://www.kingstown-shipping.co.uk/

irocfan

40,153 posts

189 months

Saturday 20th April 2019
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especially as you're in Essex speak with Ron Fenton (can find him on MOCGB.net)

Ewanph

50 posts

155 months

Tuesday 23rd April 2019
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I would definitely recommend Kingstown. They were by far the cheapest quote I got and they were one of the 3 shippers that were consistently recommended by other US car importers.
I used them with no issues back in Nov 18. The only issues I had was the ship going to the wrong port (they had failed to book a docking slot in Felixstowe), the container with my car then sat in Belgium for a week before another ship could be found to bring it to Felixstowe. The warehouse company dealing with the container then left it for a week dockside before collecting. None of these issues were a fault of Kingstown though.

Mcguinness1990

1 posts

55 months

Wednesday 21st August 2019
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AVOID AT ALL COSTS! If you value your vehicle you should not use this service as they lost all of my vehicle documents which took a further 5 months to get replaced, scratched the car and denied it, they also charged me over £700 for a necessary light conversion to make it UK legal but didn't complete the job properly. I was issued an MOT certificate that was dodgy which was only picked up by my mechanics. All in all SEAKARGO we're incapable of fulfilling the job they were paid to do.

Robin Hood

703 posts

204 months

Wednesday 21st August 2019
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irocfan said:
especially as you're in Essex speak with Ron Fenton (can find him on MOCGB.net)
Definitely Ron at STS, used him lots of times:

https://www.stsimports.co.uk