My wife shipped her stuff from Oslo Norway to Seattle (Redmond, actually) for about $2000, door-to-door, in 1991. They charged by volume; she was billed for two cubic meters. I'd guess that a lot of the cost was the shipping aggregator's mark-up, for packing and local transportation there, loading her stuff into a portion of a container, shipping it, unloading it on this end, and local transportation here. I'm pretty sure the cost is very non-linear – lots for the first cubic meter, cheap for additional cubic meters up to a small container, a bunch for the next cubic meter, cheap until a medium container is full, etc. There might be a maximum weight per unit volume, in case you're shipping containers full of lead, but you wouldn't see a charge on ordinary household goods.
If you don't mind hauling your stuff to the dock and picking it up at the other end, this page (http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/container/container.html) says a full container is $5781 from Oakland to Belfast (in 2001). A shipping company would be able to quote prices for shipping less than a full container.
Getting your stuff from house to dock and dock to house goes by land transportation rates. In the US, it's billed by weight times distance, with load and unload charges. I'd assume that there's a volume limit too (you'd probably pay more than the standard weight-based price to ship a ton of bubble wrap) but I doubt you'd see that on household goods. I'd assume the rules are similar in most destinations.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-12-27 06:36 am (UTC)If you don't mind hauling your stuff to the dock and picking it up at the other end, this page (http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/container/container.html) says a full container is $5781 from Oakland to Belfast (in 2001). A shipping company would be able to quote prices for shipping less than a full container.
Getting your stuff from house to dock and dock to house goes by land transportation rates. In the US, it's billed by weight times distance, with load and unload charges. I'd assume that there's a volume limit too (you'd probably pay more than the standard weight-based price to ship a ton of bubble wrap) but I doubt you'd see that on household goods. I'd assume the rules are similar in most destinations.