Cheapest and best way ship your goods from USA to India

                           Cheapest and best way ship your goods from USA to India

Are you planning to relocate India or planning to move goods to India. It's very painful to do all research , take various Sea , Air shipping quotes. Let me know tell I have had spend enough time on it and can make your move much easier through this blog.

1. List out items you wanted to ship. 

It is very important that you should know exact dimension and weight of your items. So spend some time on it before calling to take quotes for shipping. All the items listed, note down approximate cost now.


      2. Decide packaging material and approximate shipping cost

Air or Sea shipping cost is based on weight or dimension of total shipment.  And charges are based on either of Volumetric weight of all boxes dimension or actual physical weight whichever is maximum. Advise would be to keep  minimum boxes and adjust all your items in it. Shipping material should be double layer boxes which you can get it from Home Depot.


      3. Quotes from companies and final shipping cost

There are lot of Air and Sea fright  forwarder services. Use following link to contact New York and New Jersey state International shipping services. Call and communicate to take quotes for your shipment weight.

http://www.forwarders.com/StateDirectory/NY.html

http://www.forwarders.com/StateDirectory/NJ.html

Before finalizing deal with forwarder make sure you approximately to keep Volumetric and actual weight same.

Formula to get volumetric weight - 

Actual Gross Weight = 3 boxes x 10 kgs each = 30 kgs

Volumetric Weight in kgs using centimeters = (50 x 40 x 40cm) x 3 boxes / 6000 = 40 kgs

Volumetric Weight in kgs using inches = (19.6 x 15.7 x 15.7) x 3 boxes / 366 = 40 kgs

Result: 40kgs is greater than 30kgs so the Chargeable Weight will be 40kgs which is also the Volume Weight.

     4. Finalize the forwarder and book for pickup
Once your packing is ready , be ready to decide actual shipping date.Since most forwarders have their carrier date decided , you might get any 2 days of week choice when they will actually ship goods. Based on your travel plan decide when you want to ship it actually. Remember the India goods warehouse will charge you post 4-6 days holdings as storage charges per kg. So be very sure to about your timing of travel and shipping date.
Talk to your forwarder and arrange for pickup. You will have to pay for moving goods from your home to his warehouse. You can negotiate little bit but don't expect much change.
   
     5.  Goods moving day from Apartment/House
Since you have booking for items pickup a truck will come for pickup. In my case it was only driver so I had to help to load all my stuff to truck. Take photos of all your items so you will know its condition at arrival. After sending items your forwarder will send you invoice and final shipment confirmation with flight schedule.

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