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smart and the whole relocation process can work with your lifestyle,
not against it.
The international moving process is
driven by the time it takes for personal effects to reach their destination
by sea freight. This period, when you will
be without your personal effects, is often overlooked when people are moving
abroad, and can cause unforeseen delays and disruption.
By knowing the anticipated time it will take before you can
be reunited with your possessions, you can plan your move around
the transit time. You can better co-ordinate your new life in
a new place, with less disturbance for you and your family, less
time away from the things you want and need, and less likelihood
of running up expensive hotel and temporary accommodation bills.
Your move manager will help you plan your personal arrival with
the arrival of your effects, but these are some examples of how
you might want to make best use of the transit times, particularly
the longer ones, that are part and parcel of the international
moving process:
You may decide to send your effects several
weeks before you are due to move, to coincide your arrival
with that of your possessions. If you are leaving the UK or Ireland, you
may find it less disruptive to be without your possessions
in your origin country for a few weeks, rather than in the new country.
Similarly, if your children are due to begin
a new school year at the new destination, you may decide to
use the preceding summer holiday to send your effects ahead,
and arrange your personal travel for the end of the summer
holiday. Again, perhaps a little more disruption while you’re
in the UK or Ireland, but a less disruptive start in the new home when
it most matters to you and your children.
You may want to consider sending your effects
early and having them put into local storage. You can then
have them delivered to your home as soon as you arrive.
You may want to plan a holiday during the
period of transit, giving you a well-earned break from the
moving process while your effects make their way to your new
home.
When you know your anticipated transit time,
you can better plan your work schedule around the period that
your effects are on the move. You may decide to leave earlier
than the rest of your family, begin work abroad, and stay in
temporary accommodation. You can then oversee the arrival of
your possessions, and when it’s done, bring your family
out to join you.
You may decide to use sea freight for the
majority of your possessions, and use air freight, which takes
around 10-14 days, to get your essential possessions to your
new home as quickly as possible.
Different transit times will affect different individuals and
families depending on their lifestyle, their children (if they
have them), and their work. That’s why we build personal
move plans for each and every customer. Still wise though, to
be prepared.
These are the anticipated door-to-door transit times for the various continents around the world from the UK and Ireland.
Move
smart and the whole relocation process can work with your lifestyle,
not against it.