Service route: Dalian to Saitama;
Service mode: Door-to-door moving one-stop service;
Case Overview: Mr. Zhuo entrusted Hippo International Moving to ship his furniture items from his home in Dalian to Saitama, Japan by sea.

Saitama Prefecture, located in the central part of Japan's Honshu Island, is a neighboring region to the Tokyo metropolitan area and is known for its rich natural beauty and deep cultural heritage. Here, the quaint streets of Kawagoe blend seamlessly with the energy of the modern city, distinguishing it from bustling Tokyo, quaint Kyoto, and traditional Osaka, and giving it a unique flavor of life. With its diverse cultures, as well as quality educational resources and medical facilities, Saitama attracts families and professionals from all over the world to settle here.

After graduating from his studies in Japan, Mr. Zhuo chose to stay and work in Japan directly. After renting an apartment with his roommate, he decided to save some unnecessary expenses by shipping some necessary furniture items from his home in China. After understanding Mr. Zhuo's shipping needs in detail, Hippo consultant tailored a cost-effective LCL shipping solution for him according to the characteristics of the items he wanted to ship. As the destination is located in East Asia, Mr. Zhuo does not need to worry about high shipping costs or long transit times, and can maintain confidence in the safety of the shipping process.

To ensure a smooth and safe shipping process, the Hippo team paid special attention to professional packing services. When providing door-to-door pickup service, the masters will use high-quality packaging materials to pack each item meticulously. For example, cabinets in furniture are first wrapped with cotton white paper for basic wrapping, then shockproof pearl cotton is used for enhanced protection, followed by the addition of guard strips at corners and other fragile parts, and finally customized cardboard packaging according to the specific shape of the furniture. For those fragile items, such as table tops or paintings made of glass, after they arrive at the warehouse, Hippo will further pack them into sturdy wooden crates to enhance protection during transportation. Below is the on-site packing for the day:

When moving from China to overseas, if there are not many things, the staff of international moving companies will suggest customers to choose the way of consolidation, which is more cost-effective and suitable for customers who are moving less than one full container, have a limited moving budget and do not have a high demand for time efficiency.

So what problems should be noted when choosing consolidation box for cross-country moving?

(1) At present, some international moving companies mainly provide domestic transportation, packing, customs clearance, booking and other services, and then complete customs clearance and delivery at the destination with overseas cooperative agents. If you have to ask whether these companies are safe? It is not 100% guaranteed, but most of them are still OK. It is suggested here that you must sign a contract with the international moving company, and all the service items and the included costs should be listed on it, so that there is a basis for resolving disputes in the future.

(2) Compare and contrast several international moving companies to see how much they charge. Generally, international moving does not include port charges and customs inspection fees in the destination port, so you should know clearly in advance.

(3) international moving to go to consolidation, the safer is the moving company to spell their own customers, meaning, customer A go a container to New York, but did not fill a container, it happens to be customer B is also a few cubic meters to go to New York, if the time difference is not too big, if you will spell together to go, the related cost will be reduced by a lot of the other way of consolidation, almost similar to go to the same as the bulk with the customer of the other companies, this relative to the first kind of security, the risk is also greater. There is no first safety, the risk is also greater.