Service route: Jinhua to Berlin;
Service mode: Door to door moving one-stop service;
Case Overview: Mr. Wu entrusted Hippo International to transport his furniture items from Jinhua to Berlin, Germany by sea.

Berlin, located in the northeastern part of Germany, is the capital and largest city of Germany, as well as the political, cultural, transportation and economic center of Germany. There are countless places of interest here, Berlin is blessed with great wealth faithfully reflecting the magnificent history of the 20th century, as well as the customs and the spirit of the times, attracting countless Chinese to move here.

Mr. Wu from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, has been starting his own business in Germany after graduating from the university, and the life in Germany in the past few years has made him feel very comfortable and satisfied, so he is ready to bring his family in Jinhua to live in Germany together. Mr. Wu's parents have been living in Jinhua for decades and have a lot of furniture, so he was ready to find an international moving company to move his family to Berlin, so that his parents could enjoy their twilight years in Germany.

After receiving Mr. Wu's shipping order, Hipo International first booked a free door-to-door volume assessment service for Mr. Wu. Mr. Wu wants to transport a lot of items, there are large pieces of furniture, there are also small pieces of clothing, books and other items, all together, the total volume of more than 20 square, because Mr. Wu on the safety of the items require high, so Hippo consultants suggested Mr. Wu directly pack a container, so that not only safety, timeliness is also higher. Cross-country sea moving to Germany, long time, long distance, how to protect the safety of the items transportation has become a key issue. In this regard, Hippo provides professional packing services, multiple materials and multi-level packaging, which can effectively enhance the safety of the transportation of goods.

How to choose the right container for you when moving cross-country?

International shipping is divided into two ways: consolidation and full container. As for the choice of LCL or FCL, it is based on the volume of the items you want to consign to decide, the minimum container size of the standard container for ocean freight is 28 cubic meters, if the volume of the items you want to consign is less than 20 cubic meters, it is more cost-effective to go for LCL; if the items you want to consign are larger than 20 cubic meters, it is recommended that you use the whole container for transportation.

The following are some regular container size specifications:

(1) 20GP
Can be loaded: about 25 cubic meters of items, equivalent to ordinary 3 rooms and 2 halls of residential items
Outer size: 5.89Mx2.35Mx2.39M(20ftx8ftx8ft6in)
Inner volume: 5.69Mx2.15Mx2.19M

(2) 40GP
Can hold about 55 cubic meters of items, equivalent to a single-family house residential items
Outer size: 12.09Mx2.35Mx2.39M(40ftx8ftx8ft6in)
Internal volume: 11.89Mx2.15Mx2.19M

(3) 40HQ
Can hold about 65 cubic meters, equivalent to a double-story single-family house items
Outer size: 12.09Mx2.35Mx2.69M(40ftx8ftx9ft6in)
Inner volume: 11.89Mx2.15Mx2.49M

Advantages of LCL:

The whole container transportation process than the LCL transportation less a LCL company set cargo and to the destination port warehouse sorting items of the two processes, so the timeliness is faster, do not have to wait, and a container is loaded with all their own items, not afraid of losing pieces of less pieces and other issues.

What situation is suitable for whole container transportation?

(1) domestic life for many years, abroad to buy a new house, but the furniture are spent a lot of money to add, with the years soon to be relatively new, accustomed to the use of domestic furniture, so a lot of furniture need to move over.

(2) has been abroad for many years, the furniture has been used for a lot of years, want to get some furniture from the domestic seafood, want to put the foreign house redecorating and arranging.

(3) Returning home to move, want to move all the foreign special furniture home furniture back home.