International Shipping Services

Moving abroad requires specialist knowledge and experience. Bishop’s Move International Division has a team of experts and fully trained staff committed to ensuring that your move overseas is as stress free as possible from start to finish.

A Global Network of Accredited Partners
As an independently owned company, Bishop’s Move is not tied in to having to use their own branches overseas regardless of local standards. Over the years we have proudly hand-picked companies to work with ensuring that the dedication to service, knowledge, reliability and quality that you find in Bishop’s Move is duplicated in our partners’ practices.

EXPERT HELP AND ADVICE

Contact Us
Our International Move Co-ordinators will ensure you receive the best advice on your specific move to help you plan according to your needs and budget. Whether it’s a move to the UK from overseas or from a country outside the UK to another country.

Should a home survey be required this can be arranged obligation free. Immediate quotes can be provided through the completion of a self survey form via our website. For more complex moves, or any other advice, our International team can always be contacted.

Packing & Wrapping
We understand how precious your items are. All our export packing staff are trained to BAR standards and have access to a wide range of quality packing materials to ensure maximum protection for your items throughout their journey.

Freight Routing
We will advise on the most suitable routing and transport options (air, sea and road) for your needs and budget, and let you know how your consignment can be tracked.

Customs Clearance & Red Tape
Take advantage of our many years’ experience of preparing international paperwork and dealing with complex customs regulations. We ensure all the import clearance paperwork is ready for presentation to customs prior to sending your effects, minimising stress and costly delays at destination.

Delivery
Upon delivery we will cross check all items from the packing inventory and note their condition. We will place all items in the relevant rooms, unpack to available space, set up beds and non self-assembly furniture and remove packing debris at the time of delivery. Leaving you free to get on with settling into your new home.

Storage
Our modern, purpose-built warehouses are the secure answer if you decide to put some, or all, of your belongings into storage. Likewise, should you need to store your effects outside of the UK, we can arrange this too.

Insurance
We offer a comprehensive range of shipping insurance options suitable for your needs and budget.

Additional Services
We can advise on all aspects of your move, including moving with cars, boats, pieces of art or even pets.

PROFESSIONAL PACKING

Care
Our BAR trained packing team will carefully pack each item, making sure it is suitably wrapped and packed for shipment overseas.

Export Wrap
Our mobile packing unit will arrive at your home equipped with the boxes and packing materials they need to export wrap and pack all your belongings. For each package, an inventory is clearly recorded, then depending on the size of the shipment and access, it is either taken away or loaded into a container at residence.

Delicate and Unusual Items
No matter how fragile or awkward the item, we have a carton or packing material to protect it. We professionally pack china and glassware, books and linen, paintings and mirrors, and much more.

Crating
Custom crates may be required for fragile or valuable items to provide added protection such as pianos, chandeliers, paintings and ornamental mirrors. Our surveyors will advise you about this.

MOVING OVER LAND OR SEA

By Sea
Where possible, shipping by sea is the most cost effective method and suitable for larger moves. People often use a combination of deep sea transportation for items such as furniture, cars and the bulk of personal effects and then airfreight for essential items.

Full Container Loads
For larger loads, this service gives you the sole use of a metal 20ft or 40ft shipping container. This is the faster, direct option as there is no consolidation period. Containers can be loaded and sealed at your home, access permitting.

Groupage
Our groupage service involves grouping together a number of small shipments sharing space in a metal container. This is the most economic service for smaller loads. Bishop’s Move operates regular groupage services from the UK to the most popular overseas destinations.

Less than a Container Load
This service is for urgently required consignments too small to fill a container, too large to send by air or perhaps to unusual destinations where a groupage service is not available. Your belongings are export wrapped and packed at your home, loaded into plywood cases back at our depot, then loaded into a metal container for shipping.

Road Freight
To most European destinations road freight is the quickest and most economical option. We offer two services:

By Air
If speed is the priority, then air freight is the best choice. This is the service for items you simply can’t do without on arrival, such as selected clothes and favourite children’s toys to help you settle in quickly.

SETTLING YOU IN

Global Network
Our global network of branches and accredited partners can be trusted to help you settle in to your new environment.

Accredited Partners
Wherever in the world our services are delivered, our clients can be confident in the knowledge they will receive the same impeccable standards. We use a respected partner to perform the customs clearance, unloading, unpacking, setting up and debris removal. We only use partners that we perceive as offering the best possible service in their part of the world. Being independent we can use the best partner for each move.

Having been trading for over 170+ years we have established longstanding relationships with respected global partners. However we still insist that our partners are affiliated to the main quality industry bodies.

The accreditations below help us maintain the integrity and quality of our service right across our network and partners, so we can confidently give our customers the highest possible standards wherever they are. If our partner does not provide a great service then we are not committed to continue using them.

BAR
Bishop’s Move is part of a dedicated group of companies within the British Association of Removers that specialises in all aspects of overseas removals. Members meet strict standards and subscribe to a financial bonding scheme to protect all pre-payments to the company.

ISO 9001
As part of our continual improvement and commitment to quality Bishop’s Move has been awarded ISO 9001 accreditation – the Internationally recognised standard for Quality Management Systems.

IMMI
Bishop’s Move Group has obtained an advance payment guarantee insurance from International Movers Mutual Insurance Company Limited (“the Guarantor”) in respect of international removals of household goods. In the event of the mover suffering financial failure and ceasing to trade the customer’s payments made in advance will be secured through provision of equivalent removal services by another contractor limited to 125% of original price OR full refund of proportion of advance payments made at time of mover ceasing to trade relating to moving services which have not been provided.

STORAGE AND MORE

Facilities
Our modern, purpose built warehouses provide safe and secure solutions for all your storage requirements.

Care
We can store the entire contents of your home or just a few specific items over a short or extended period of time. We pack and seal consignments in special wooden containers, and provide you with a full inventory. Our advanced retrieval systems enable us to locate your items quickly and efficiently when you need them.

Security
All our containerised storage facilities and those offered by approved partner companies are purpose-built and designed to withstand the effects of fire and flood. They are clean, dry and are fully protected by sophisticated electronic alarm systems. Our vehicles have phones and the majority have state of the art satellite tracking systems enabling us to continually monitor our vehicles wherever they are allowing, you security and peace of mind.

Cars
We don’t just move household effects, we can also move cars and help with the paperwork.

Pets
We work with approved specialist carriers, who deal with the paperwork and injections, as well as ensuring your pets move in comfort. This service includes collecting pets from your home and transporting to your final destination.

Handyman
We can offer help for tricky tasks such as hanging mirrors, pictures or non standard dismantling and reassembly.

Relocation Services
We can do more than just assist you with your actual move, we also offer bespoke relocation services to include help finding homes, schools, doctors, and more at your new destination, taking the stress away from you.

Contact a member of  our dedicated International team on + 44 (0) 208 391 8222.