Overseas Shipping?

[carguy123]

Have any of you done this? I need to ship a kit car chassis fron England to Texas that is about 9' long X 4' wide x 30' tall and weighs about 350 lbs.

My first quote was $5,000 and a 2 month delivery time. YIKES!

Although I haven't done it yet, a friend said to check air freight as it was only a little more expensive and delivery was in days. That just doesn't compute.

 

[kbs2244]

If you have a truck or trailer and are up to the trip, call some Houston freight forwarders. (Not DFW)
I bet you are paying a lot for the TX part of the trip.
Tell them you will pick it up at their location.
Cars go back and forth all the time.
2 months is out of line. 1 month is long.
It will probably share a container with another car, but that is their call.
They mix and match freight all the time.

 

[rsanter]

how have you priced this? are you paying for shipping in a container? as freight by itself?

there are lots of people in europe that are interested in the vintage american cars, can you make a deal to put it in with something else going that way.

I have a friend in austrailia that buys the vintage mustangs and ships them back in containers. he fills the containers to the brim and I think it costs half that

bob

 

[Charles (in GA)]

He is shipping FROM ENGLAND to Texas. Its that 30 foot high that is making the quotes so much...................

Charles

 

[FunfDreisig]

....I need to ship a kit car chassis fron England to Texas that is about 9' long X 4' wide x 30' tall and weighs about 350 lbs....

30 FEET tall. Surely this is a typo. At 350lbs, the part of this chassis that is 30 feet tall would have to be pretty skinny and made of carbon fiber

Funf Dreisig

 

[carguy123]

30" high sorry.

 

[Terry Kennedy]

Have any of you done this? I need to ship a kit car chassis fron England to Texas that is about 9' long X 4' wide x 30' tall and weighs about 350 lbs.

My first quote was $5,000 and a 2 month delivery time. YIKES!

If you can ship it as a parcel rather than as an auto, you'll probably get a better price, since that rate will be based on actual dimensions and weight rather than exclusive use of a 20' container.

I can tell you that shipping my race car back from England (to Port Newark, NJ) is $3340 plus $175 for paperwork. The actual shipping time (port to port) is a little less than two weeks, but the shipper suggests allowing 6 weeks "just in case", and because the car rarely shows up at the loading point on the day the ship is loading - it may sit in port for a week to 10 days waiting for a ship.

PM me if you want contact info for my shipper - they specialize in shipping expensive cars in and out of the US.

 

[mikeyr]

I am VERY interested in doing this for a motor, I need to ship a motor from S. Calif. back to the UK and then back to the U.S. after its rebuilt. I had a shipper late last year but they were concerned about the crating process since the motor is irreplaceable (very very few built and even fewer survive, only 1 known in the U.S.) and they were afraid of damage so they said they wanted a professional crater to build the crate. Then of course once I lined that up, they would not ship it.

 

[sneezer41]

I ship to europe from the east coast all the time. a 1500 lb pallet will cost 2000-2500 air freight [42x48x32] and 1000 to 1500 by sea. BAX is good for air, I have used Kuhne&Nagel for surface, but not to england.

 

[kbs2244]

Is the any HazMat differences in costs?
I am thinking that he is talking an auto kit that has not had gas or oil put in it yet vs a car with some in it?
But then, isn’t that what freight forwarders do?

 

[Terry Kennedy]

Is the any HazMat differences in costs?
I am thinking that he is talking an auto kit that has not had gas or oil put in it yet vs a car with some in it?

Containerized shipping doesn't require a full drain-and-purge - running the engine out of gas until it stalls is sufficient. Air cargo does require removal of fluids and an inert gas purge.

There are shipping options that don't require any of this - in ro-ro (roll-on/roll-off) the cars are driven on/off the ship. That's how BMWs get here from Germany, for example.

 

[mikeyr]

in my case the motor has not run since the mid-60's and the oil pan has been off for about 6 years now. So yes there were fluids but none now so hazmat should not be a issue until the return trip when the motor RUN

I will call the few names that have shown up in this thread, thanks.

 

[GDA]

I've sourced some wheels and other parts for my old German spec (non US model) M5. IIRC shipping on my car when I imported it back in '02 was about $1700. Even for a set of wheels at over 80 lbs I've been able to do land/sea door to door from Germany at less than $300.

It takes some time working with the right person on the other end to set it up right with DHL Global but so far its worked well for me. It would seem you have less than a full container so the sea part should be less than $2k.