International moving in Surrey, BC. Local Movers Ltd handles the Surrey side of your overseas move. Export packing, custom crates, container loading and depot runs, billed on the actual hours and broken down up front.
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An international move is really two moves. Your shipping line or freight forwarder runs the ocean leg. Everything before that is ours. The export packing, the custom crates, the container loading at your Surrey home, the run to the depot. Local Movers Ltd has spent 6+ years moving Surrey homes, hundreds of them, and we run our own crews, so the people who quote your overseas move are the people who pack it.
We load overseas shipments out of every kind of home Surrey has. Condo towers around Surrey City Centre where the strata wants the service elevator booked ahead. Three-storey townhouses in Fleetwood with tight internal stairs. Estate homes around Morgan Creek and Ocean Park in South Surrey with a garage full of pieces worth crating properly. Our base sits on 164 St in east Fleetwood, so the truck, the dollies, the blankets and the crew are minutes from most of the city.
Overseas freight comes with enough line items already. Our part stays simple. We bill on time, on the actual hours the packing and loading take, in 30-minute increments after the minimum charge, and you see the breakdown before we start. No flat-rate guesswork, no padded invoice at the end. And when your move-out date and your ship date refuse to line up, we can hold everything in secure storage between the two until your forwarder calls the container.
An ocean shipment gets lifted, trucked, craned and stacked more times than any local move, so we pack for the roughest leg of the trip. Double-wall cartons, export wrap, moving blankets, and custom wooden crates for glass, stone and artwork. Every box gets labelled and numbered, so the packing list matches what customs sees at the other end.
When your street or driveway can take a container, we load your 20-foot or 40-foot box right at the house. We plan the load order before the first carton goes in, spread the weight across the floor and brace every tier. A load that can’t shift is a load that arrives whole, and that’s the whole job.
Smaller shipments ride in lift vans, the sturdy wooden shipping boxes your forwarder consolidates with other freight. We pack and load at your Surrey home, truck everything to your forwarder’s Lower Mainland depot, and hand off against the numbered packing list so nothing goes missing between us.
Move-out day and sail day rarely match. We move you out when your place closes, hold everything safe and wrapped, then deliver straight to the container or depot when your forwarder confirms the date. One crew handles both ends, so nothing gets repacked twice.
You pay for the hours the packing and loading take, broken down before we start. Never a flat-rate guess.
The team that quotes your overseas move is the team that packs, crates and loads it.
Hundreds of Surrey moves, rated five stars by 370+ customers.
One of the largest delivery partners for IKEA, Cozey and Samsung.
Tell us what’s shipping and where it’s headed. You get the hourly rate, crew size and minimum up front.
Export cartons, wrap and custom crates, usually done 1 or 2 days before the load.
Container at your door or a truck run to the depot. Loaded in order, braced tight, checked off the list.
Your forwarder takes a sealed load with a numbered packing list that matches every box we packed.
Real five-star reviews from our Surrey customers, straight from Google.
Here’s the whole pricing story for our part. We bill on time. You pay for the actual hours the packing and loading take, billed in 30-minute increments after the minimum charge, and you see the breakdown up front. Ocean freight, customs and destination charges are separate. Those come from your shipping line or forwarder, not from us.
Four things decide how many hours our side of an overseas move takes. You control most of them.
Ocean freight is priced on volume, and so is packing time. A 1-bedroom shipment of 40 boxes is a short day. A 4-bedroom house with a crate list is not. Cut the load a month before pack day and both bills shrink.
Box your own books and linens and you keep hours off the clock. Most overseas customers have us handle the fragile and crated pieces and add packing help for the rest, since a tight export pack protects the whole shipment.
A booked service elevator and close parking keep the crew moving. A third-floor townhouse walk-up adds minutes to every trip. Clear the path and the load can finish 30 to 60 minutes sooner.
A container dropped at your door usually comes with a set loading window, so we size the crew to beat it. No room for a container on your street? We load our truck and run your shipment to the depot instead. Same care, one clean trip.
We do this at volume. Local Movers Ltd is one of the largest delivery partners for IKEA, Cozey and Samsung, and the same crews pack and load overseas shipments 7 days a week. Staying inside Canada instead? Our long distance moving crews run BC and cross-country. Call (778) 242-2877, tell us what’s shipping, and we’ll give you the hourly rate, the crew size and the minimum in about 5 minutes.
Our crews watch the same snags catch people on every overseas shipment. Here are the 10 tips we give anyone shipping a home abroad, whether you’re leaving a townhouse near our Fleetwood base or an estate home in South Surrey.
Plenty of our Surrey overseas jobs start across the water in Vancouver. A recent one packed out of a Yaletown loft, one of the old brick warehouses that got converted to apartments on the former Expo 86 lands. Two-bed shipment, a container-bound export, and the building ran the same rules the newer glass-and-concrete towers on False Creek run. That means a booked freight-elevator window and a Certificate of Insurance naming the strata before the crew touches a thing.
We booked the service elevator ahead, since almost every Vancouver high-rise now wants a COI naming the Strata Corporation, and we sent ours over the day before. A load like this runs a 3-person crew and gets sized to beat the move window, because those fob-programmed windows can run 9 AM to 1 PM and simply expire if you overshoot. Fragile pieces got crated, the rest got export cartons, and the whole shipment left on a numbered packing list.
We ran it out over Highway 1 and the Port Mann Bridge, about 40 minutes back toward our 164 St base, then straight to the forwarder’s depot. Our part stayed billed on the actual hours, broken down up front. The ocean leg was the forwarder’s job. No flat-rate guess on either end.
Our part is billed on time. You pay for the actual hours the packing and loading take, billed in 30-minute increments after the minimum charge, and we break that down before we start. Ocean freight, customs and destination charges are separate and come from your shipping line or freight forwarder. Call (778) 242-2877 and we’ll walk you through how the hours usually land for your size of home.
We handle the Surrey end. Export packing, custom crates, container loading and delivery to your freight forwarder’s depot. The ocean or air leg runs through your shipping line or forwarder, and we pack to their requirements so your shipment travels the way the carrier wants it. That split keeps every part of the move with the people who do it best.
Yes. We load 20-foot and 40-foot containers right at the house when there’s room to drop one. We plan the load order, spread the weight and brace each tier so nothing shifts at sea. If your street or strata can’t take a container, we load our truck instead and transfer your shipment at the depot.
We do. Glass, stone, artwork and anything else that can’t ride in a carton gets a custom wooden crate or a padded lift van. Electronics like a Samsung TV travel boxed upright with blankets and padding. An overseas shipment gets handled more times than a local one, so we pack for the roughest leg of the trip, not the easiest.
Yes. Move-out dates and sail dates almost never line up. We can move you out on your schedule, hold everything in secure storage, then deliver to the container or depot when your forwarder confirms the date. You pay hourly for the moving labour on each end, and we sort the storage details with you up front.
Customs clearance runs through your freight forwarder and the destination agent. What we add is a clean, numbered packing list. Every box and crate we pack gets labelled and listed, which is exactly what customs officers and insurers want to see. Keep your passports, visas and originals with you, never in the shipment.
Book the packing crew 2 to 3 weeks ahead once your forwarder confirms a window. The whole overseas move takes longer, and most people start planning 2 to 3 months out. We’re open 7 days a week, so if your container date moves, we have room to move with it.
All of them. Our base sits on 164 St in east Fleetwood, and we pack and load overseas shipments across Newton, Guildford, Cloverdale, South Surrey and Surrey City Centre, plus the rest of the Lower Mainland. Wherever the house is, the same crew and the same hourly billing show up.
Yes, and we do it often. Vancouver towers run tighter rules than most Surrey buildings. Almost every high-rise now wants a Certificate of Insurance naming the Strata Corporation before we start, and we send that over ahead of the load. We book the freight elevator for your window, since those windows are fob-programmed and can expire if the load runs long, and the City of Vancouver wants a moving-truck street permit applied for at least 7 days out. We handle the Vancouver end and truck your shipment back over the Port Mann to the depot.
Packed, crated and loaded by our own crew, billed on actual time. Get your free estimate today.
Local Movers Ltd · 8567 164 St, Surrey, BC V4N 3K4 · (778) 242-2877 · Open Mon-Sun
