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Door to Door International Movers: Comprehensive, Efficient, and Cost Effective
When moving overseas, you may desire a door to door international relocation for its security and convenience. Not all overseas movers, though, provide this level of completeness.
To help, here are definitions for true door to door international movers, information about other options that exist, and how you benefit with Suddath, the award-winning international moving company.
What is Door to Door International Moving?
Overall, this concept refers to a complete move where the relocation company ensures that everything from your current home (your current “door”) is safely delivered to your new home in your new country: your new “door.” This ideally involves international movers staying in well-coordinated control from beginning to end rather than outsourcing the relocation to interim middle parties.
What this would look like from your end, as someone who is moving overseas, with Suddath:
- A knowledgeable expert will professionally conduct a survey to verify the weight and volume of your household goods needing transport.
- Flexible storage solutions are available to warehouse belongings that you’re not transporting but want to keep.
- You’ll receive help with international document preparation.
- We’ll make strategic decisions about which multimodal international shipping service types are optimal for your situation. Factors considered include the volume and weight of shipments, available options at both your origin and destination locations, and your budget, timetable, and expectations.
- Full packing services are available for your move. That said, if you have a reason to want to DIY-pack part of the job, this doesn’t disqualify you from experiencing a door to door move. It’s just an adaptation, one that Suddath flexibly offers.
- As needed, Suddath also builds custom crates, measuring carefully to ensure optimal sizing for uniquely shaped and fragile belongings.
- Skilled movers will load up belongings, carefully taking them out your door into a vehicle that will transport them to the appropriate place to get them where they need to go.
- Additional services include international insurance coverage options, facilitation of auto and boat transportation, pet relocations, and fine art and wine shipping.
- You’ll receive expert guidance and assistance with customs with issues big and small as movers stay in full compliance with regulations. This will minimize inconveniences, avoid delays, and prevent unnecessary costs.
- Belongings will safely and securely be delivered inside your new home, being professionally unpacked with debris removed.
- Added services in your new country can include assistance with maid service, language services, and more to help you get settled in and comfortable in your new place.
Next up, we’ll contrast the idea of door to door international movers with other options.
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Full Service Doesn’t Always Mean Door-to-Door International Movers
Perhaps the moving company will pack and transport your goods but not help with documentation, customs, and so forth. It’s crucial to know what the relocation company will handle, their limits, and what you will do. Before choosing international movers, factor in the difficulties of managing your share of responsibilities in a place where processes will differ and where you may not speak the language or understand local lingo and slang. You might also see a company calling itself a full-service mover, but this doesn’t necessarily qualify as door-to-door international services. Here are some things to consider when looking for the right moving service to fit your door-to-door needs.
Port to Port Shipping and Delivery
With this setup, movers will make sure that your belongings get to the place where they’ll be shipped from your origin country to your destination country. They’re transported and then dropped off at a port (or airport) in your new country. From that point on, you’re on your own. There’s a good chance that they haven’t addressed customs issues and, even if they have, you now need to navigate from that point on.
This involves picking up your household goods (in what vehicle?) and getting them to your new home. You may or may not know your way in this new country that could have signage in a different language. Then, you unpack, get rid of debris, and otherwise handle settling in.
Curbside Delivery
This may sound better than port-to-port shipping, but it comes with its own complications. Belongings will arrive at your new home, but they’ll simply be dropped off. If you’re not home, then they’re exposed to the elements and otherwise unprotected. You’ll then need to handle all unpacking, debris removal, and so forth.
The bottom line: limited service moves, port-to-port ones, and curbside delivery moves simply don’t provide the seamless service that you get from experienced door-to-door international movers. Here’s one more caveat.
Importance of a Single Point of Contact
A moving company could technically offer door-to-door international moves and still outsource components of the move to interim third parties—thereby surrendering their ability to ensure quality control throughout the overseas relocation. That’s not what happens at Suddath. Instead, we collaborate with trustworthy global partners, staying at the helm from initial quote to final delivery of belongings. We clearly communicate with one another to avoid paperwork chasing and other hassles that could occur with international moves.
You’ll benefit from a dedicated move counselor who keeps you in the loop from start to finish, providing transparent insights into the real-time status of your international move. You can also get prompt answers to your questions from this knowledgeable professional.
How Seamless International Moves Work
When you choose door-to-door international movers with the required expertise, like Suddath, the process can run quite smoothly. From prepping for the move to ensuring that the right paperwork is completed at the right time, Suddath navigates through the bureaucracy (which varies from country to country) to facilitate processes. The result? We get you where you need to go, on time and on budget, like we do with the 16,000 overseas moves we manage annually.
You can proceed with confidence with our professional moving crews. Before any of them contribute to the moving process, they’re fully vetted, thoroughly background checked, and well trained (with 250 hours of education per crew member). Plus, we offer a full menu of flexible services to ensure that your relocation is customized for your unique timeline, budget, and other special requirements. We wrap, pack, and crate your household goods according to international moving standards to transport them safely and minimize claims.
Because our highly skilled overseas movers have completed so many relocations, we have the experience needed to proactively consider potential problems—and have reliable workarounds already in place in case any take place. Our move counselors expertly manage moves, using real-time insights from our powerful proprietary technology. We also help with cultural orientation services, language support, and other facets to help your new place truly feel like home.
Here’s independent verification of our top-shelf service. In 2024, we won the International Mover of the Year Award, one of the FEM Americas Expatriate Management & Mobility Awards, for the sixth time. This honors our excellence, innovation, and high-quality assistance to the expatriate community that we serve.
Transparent, Competitive Pricing
International moves can be quite complex, and so it’s crucial that your pricing isn’t. You’ll want to know exactly how much you’ll need to pay, and for what services. Suddath clearly details our cost-efficient moving expenses without including hidden fees. Because we stay at your move’s helm, we provide full visibility and actively protect your finances. Our experts will negotiate for quality lanes and rates, advocating for your best interests. If any vendor charges appear that weren’t on your original relocation plan, we’ll dispute them for you.
Here’s another financial issue that you might not immediately consider—but it’s an important one. Suddath pays its bills on time. This means that you don’t have to worry about shipments of your household goods being held up while awaiting payment.
To get started, request a fast, accurate, granular quote from our award-winning international moving company.
ADDITIONAL INTERNATIONAL MOVING SERVICES
Document Preparation
Before your international move, a survey will be conducted by an experienced Suddath representative. To assist in document preparation and determine the accurate volume and weight of your overseas move, we follow a transparent, step-by-step process.
Shipping Options
Suddath provides transportation services via air, sea and land to meet your specific shipment needs. We take into consideration shipment size (weight and volume), origin and destination, available service options, cost components and customer expectations.
Inventory Preparation for Customs
One of the most important steps of moving internationally is knowing and complying with the customs regulations of the country you’re moving to. Our experience with international moving ensures that key details aren’t overlooked, so you don’t incur major inconveniences, delays and added costs.
Packing, Unpacking, and Debris Removal
Unique items or items that are particularly delicate, fragile or irregularly sized, may require their own tailored, custom crates built to protect these types of items. Our team consists of experts who will take measurements and build a crate to spec to protect these items.
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FAQs: Door to Door International Movers
Costs can range significantly depending upon the origin point, the destination point, and the mileage in between. For example, let’s say that you’re moving from the United States to the UK. If that means from New York to London, that’s about 3,500 miles. Moving to France from the United States? That’s closer to 5,000 miles. And, if you’re moving to Australia, that’s a distance of more than 9,000 miles. Distance isn’t the only factor, however. Also consider:
• The size of your house: This will impact the weight and volume of belongings that needs to be packed and transported (and perhaps stored).
• Shipping modes chosen: These can include air, sea/ocean, and by land.
• Other factors more uniquely yours
Reach out to our international movers for a transparent, granular estimate.
Suddath will design an efficient, cost-effective plan after analyzing your specific situation. We’ll use the most appropriate mix of transportation modes (air, water, and land) and negotiate the best rates. In addition, we’ll handle customs and document requirements along with all of the services that fall underneath the umbrella of services for door to door international movers. For more information, connect with our experts.
If you’re a homeowner, there will be costs when selling the house or property management fees if renting it out. You’ll have storage fees if you plan to use warehousing for excess belongings. Expect to pay costs associated with packing, transporting belongings, documentation and customs, flying to the country, and obtaining required visas.
In your new country, you’ll have a down payment and closing costs if buying a home or lease payments and a security deposit if renting. In either case, there will likely be costs to start up utilities and, if you didn’t transport your car and pay those costs, you’ll need to buy or lease one.
You’ll want an experienced international moving company (Suddath has more than a century of relocation expertise) that offers the services you need. We provide stellar door to door international moving services, so that box is also checked. This includes how our experts create a personalized shipping plan that meets your timetable and comes with optimal lanes and the best pricing available for that schedule.
Ask an international moving company if they outsource components to interim third parties. This could be a warning sign that you’ll struggle to know your point of contact and move’s status. At Suddath, we provide professional oversight throughout the relocation, collaborating with top global partners and staying in control. Our advanced proprietary technology provides exceptional real-time visibility into your move’s progress, and your dedicated, single point of contact move counselor will keep you well informed throughout your relocation.
Also make sure that the international moving company of choice has the appropriate accreditations and licenses. Upon request, we’ll gladly show you our documentation.
Now, here’s the icing on the cake with Suddath: we’re a six-time International Mover of the Year Award winner, granted this prestigious designation through the FEM Americas Expatriate Management & Mobility Awards.
You don’t have to take our word for it. Instead, rely upon the world’s premier relocation community and their FEM Americas Expatriate Management & Mobility Awards for the answer: Suddath. They’ve named us as a six-time winner of the International Mover of the Year Award, most recently in 2024.
Here’s what Walter Myers, Suddath’s President of Moving & Storage, had to say: “This award directly reflects the outstanding efforts of our operations and assignee services team, who consistently deliver exceptional results for our clients’ global household goods moving program. We are extremely proud of our team’s dedication and commitment to excellence and the enthusiastic support of our loyal customers, all of which made this honor possible.”
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