The value of pound sterling has recently dropped as low as £1/$1.03, but on the flip side, container prices have started to drop (in some cases dramatically) from their recent high levels. Since Brexit & Covid we have switched a number of routes from container to RoRo (roll-on-roll-off) purely because the cost of containers have…
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Due to the current climate and the high cost of container shipping, we offer roll-on-roll-off car shipping from the UK to the USA. RoRo Car Shipping Quote RoRo stands for roll-on-roll-off shipping. Instead of your car / vehicle being loaded in a container, it is instead loaded onto a giant car ferry. Vehicles are loaded…
The UK has thousands of franchised and independent car dealers all buying, selling and part-ex’ing cars for sale. Used car prices have shot up over the last five months with Cap HPI marking August 2021 as the fifth consecutive month of used car price growth. Since April 2021 prices have gone up 16.6% with strong…
A car shipping business set up by two school friends is celebrating its 15th anniversary after transporting thousands of vehicles around the world. Nick Roach and Kingsley Read set up ShipMyCar in 2006 and now operate from a 12,000 sq ft warehouse in Milton Keynes. The company aims to simplify the often complex process of importing a…
Shipping your car when you move to UK Even in the midst of a global pandemic, there are thousands of people currently moving out of Hong Kong with many looking to the UK to relocate. We have seen a large increase in the volume of interest in car shipping from Hong Kong to the UK…
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What is Transshipment?
If you are shipping a car or have shipped a car in the last few months you may have had heard that your vessel has been transshipped. This usually means you are provided with a new, slightly later arrival time for your car to arrive in the UK. So why is that and what is…
So Brexit happened, and Covid happened, and everything kept moving fairly smoothly. Yes in the last few months there have been delays creeping in to most areas of the car shipping, import and registration processes. We look into why.
Exporting a car from South Africa requires a number of steps to be completed in order to first obtain permission to export and ship the car. These permits are obtained by an organisation called ITAC (hence why they are known as ITAC permits) If you are shipping a car with us, our local agent there…
We can now offer shared containers for shipping your car from Hong Kong to ensure your vehicle is loaded securely and safely for shipment to the UK. Our instant quote system can price up everything from loading fees, shipping, marine insurance, UK taxes, testing and registration fees all automatically – you will receive a quote…
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Petrolheadonism
Petrolheadonism is a great group of people who share a passion for all things automotive. We have recently been working with them on a few projects that you may have seen on our social media channels. Recently we worked with them to Sponsor Ollie Brown in the GT Cup racing for Deranged Motorsport Ciro from…