Transportation to Goa from UK

keithpoonam

Hi can anyone assist.

We are coming to live in Goa in August and wish to ship some of our Furiture / Belongings with us.

Can anyone give us adice on how to do this - is: which company to use / what we can take / Costs etc: /

WE have alot of not expensive but sentimental value items, can anyone give us advice.

Thanks alot

Keith Sharma

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Keith

supergal

Hello Keith,

I'm in the same position as you and am wondering if you have any contacts/info that you can share to help with our coming move to Goa (from the UK).

Thanks in advance.

keithpoonam

Hi there

We shopped around and found that Bonner International seemed to have the knowledge with a door to door service ( Even hanging your pictures at the other end ).

Their quote for a container via sea which would easily fit the contents of a three bedroom house was around £ 3700.00.

Regards

Keith

supergal

Thanks! Will look them up.

supergal

Hi Keith,
I've contacted Bonner and we're having someone come over to give us a quote. Did they deliver your stuff to Goa? Did they also handle customs etc?

Nick-H

id I post about 360 Relocations? Maybe I dreamt it, or maybe it was another thread. They moved me from London, shipping to Chennai. You could add them to your quote list:

Link: 360 relocations

supergal

Thanks for that. It was on another thread.

supergal

I have had quotes from about seven different companies, four of which will deliver to Goa. Every one of them has a different estimate of our volume! Only two companies sent someone over to actually look at the stuff, the others will go pro-rata depending on whether the volume is more or less than estimated.

The estimates vary (for the same stuff) from "less than 230 cuft" to 137 cuft to 185 cuft.

Estimating cubic feet when you're not an expert is not easy. Any tips?

Nick-H

I think it is impossible, if you don't have a practiced eye. The only way you might do it is by imagining all your stuff crammed into a room, and working out the cu footage of the room.

I'd be more inclined to go with people who can bother to look at your stuff, and who might (should?) have given you some indication of their packing materials.

It doesn't sound like you're bringing very much!

birds

With whoever you make a deal, make sure you also arrange that they take care of disposing the packing material.

It is not easy to dispose of garbage in Goa short of burning it which is not advisable for a lot of the synthetic materials.

Be careful that when they agree to take it that they will dispose of it properly and not dump it in the fields around the corner, something which happens only too frequently.

Garbage and its disposal is a huge problem in Goa.

Nick-H

It's a good point. Same with builders!

apart from minimal use of bubble-wrap, our 360 people packed everything in paper and cardboard.

Most removals people would probably be only to gladto take those empty boxes away for re-use; they are quite expensive to buy!

In fact, you can sell them yourself (I guess; you certainly could here) to one of the guys that buys newspapers back to sell to the waste-paper merchants.

Always good to keep a couple of flattened boxes, though (I would say that; I'm a hoarder!) --- but beware: empty boxes make grat rat homes, corrugated cardboard makes a wonderful insect nest, and (worst thing that happened to us) a box with some paper in it may be colonised by a cat family!

birds

It is strange but I had a really good relationship with those guys in Delhi but in Goa, at least where we are, I never see them.

We did exactly that and got the rats too! And then they were followed by a huge rat snake which freaked out my cleaning lady. Totally non-poisonous but she still wanted it out of the house!

No cat colonies though. Fat chance I guess with seven dogs (8 at the moment with 1 tiny foster)but some did become 'dog beds'.

And with a grandious mango season we just had five of those boxes filled with mangos from our garden!

So indeed very useful!

supergal

Just to conclude our experiences on this subject:

From England, our luggage was shipped via Eagle Relocations in the last week of July. It arrived in Chennai (not Mumbai as promised!) in October and was cleared/shipped to Goa through Universal Relocations.

The transporters in Goa (thru Universal) were GATI, who were not so great to deal with, but we had no choice in the matter.

I'm considering posting Eagle (UK) a map of India for Christmas so they know that Mumbai and Chennai are not the same place...

If anybody would like further details, please feel free to get in touch.