Shipping Pianos to the UK by LCL
Service route: Chengdu to Oxford;
Service mode: Door to door moving one-stop service;
Case Overview: Ms Wang entrusted Hippo International to ship her furniture items from her home in Chengdu to Oxford, UK by sea.
Ms Wang is going to study in the UK and decided to entrust her beloved piano and some miscellaneous luggage to a professional international moving company for shipping to Oxford before her departure.
Piano belongs to high-precision musical instruments, compared with ordinary musical instruments, the volume is bigger, the internal parts are complicated, long-distance shipping to Oxford, the domestic high protection value of the door packing and handling, professional standards of warehousing operations and free your hands of the foreign section of the delivery service is indispensable.
For musical instruments like pianos, NIM will use professional 5-layer packaging
(1) Cotton white paper base, then wrapped with several layers of wrapping film, anti-scratch.
(2) Pearl cotton wrapping to prevent moisture and dust.
(3) The protective strips are laminated and reinforced, focusing on protecting the corners of the piano.
(4) The outermost layer is made of thickened cardboard, combined with the shape of the piano for packaging.
(5) After arriving at the warehouse, the masters will also put on the fumigation-free wooden crates and pallets made of high-density material.
Such high-strength packaging can ensure the increased safety value of sea transport.
After 3 months of bumpy sea transport, Ms Wang's piano and baggage sundries finally arrived successfully at her residence in the UK. Professional overseas colleagues helped to deliver the piano to her home, unpack and restore the box, assemble the piano and clean up the rubbish debris.