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We are in the process of moving and shipping somethings right now. This is what I've found out so far... It depends where you are moving from. We are moving from Northern California so we don't have a long way to get to the port of SF. It's usually based on cubic feet. (HxWxL) We are shipping approx. 250 cu ft door to port with partial packing for about $2500. Not bad considering some of the boxes are super heavy. Insurance to $3000. is included. Here's the company we chose and our contact. He is great. No attitude and very detailed. Didn't make us feel like idiots. Hope this helps!!

Josh Vanspier
Customer service agent
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Hello ASE,

You can find some information under Shipping on this site. Also check Shipping a Car if you are doing that. Click on the Home Link at the top left of this page and then choose the shipping sections from the menu.

--Islander

I am planning a move to St thomas. I remember reading a post within the last year about maritime law and insurance when shipping items but I can't find it with the search tool. It was something about if you do not have insurance (which I am told by Econocaribe you cannot get if you pack your own items/don't use a professional mover) and the ship loses any items in transit- then some maritime law states that those whose items made it are responsible for compensating those that lost items. It said that you could wind up with an astronomical bill (something like $30,000). Can anyone who has packed their own items and shipped them verify whether this is true or not?

Good afternoon,

I have been working with Lee Fleming with Managed Freight he has been great answering all of my many questions.

Here is how you can reach him:

toll free : 888-820-8475

email : info@managedfreight.com

Yahoo IM : MANAGED340

I posted something last summer based on our move to STX - look on 7/29 under shipping cars or something like that - just do a search by author back to that time and it should come up. Lee is who we used as well.

And RM, according to the insurance people who covered us - yes, you can be held liable for someone else's loss if the ship goes down or something has to be jettisoned if you don't have insurance.

I don't know what Econocaribe's policy is, but whoever it was that Lee hooked me up with insured us, although we sort of discovered on the hind end that our coverage was not as good as if we had used a moving company to pack all of our stuff. We had one chipped wooden picture frame - and we sent stained glass and everything else under the sun. We packed it and had local movers put it into the container and sent it on it's way per Lee's orders. I can't remember who did the underwriting for the insurance, may have been Lloyd's of London...but the cost to have packers put stuff in boxes was just prohibitive in my book. Everything worked out great...to be honest, we were prepared for losses, but everything came in just fine.