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Personal Effects Container Shipping from the United Kingdom

Jan 19. 2016

Burke Bros Moving Group offer weekly container shipping services to all major countries across the globe.

Whether you are shipping just a few items of personal effects or moving the full contents of your family home we have container shipping services to suit your budget. It may be confusing if it is your first time moving abroad.

Container sharing: Our bespoke packing systems allow for the safest method of sharing space inside containers allowing you substantial savings on your shipping costs.

Sole Use Container: For those larger full house moves we offer packing and loading direct from your front door into the shipping lines own containers. We can also collect your goods and return to our own warehouse should you require.

 Standard shipping container sizes: As a rough guide the contents of a 3 bed house would normally fit inside a 20ft container. The full contents of a 4 or 5 bed house would normally require a 40ft container. Please feel free to ask us for advice on the size of container you need to ship your personal effects overseas. You can call us on 01902 714555 or post your shipping enquiry online here. Container sizes can vary slightly depending on which shipping line we use, so the sizes below are used as a guide only.

the following sizes are to be used as a guideline only.

Standard 20′
Inside Length Inside Width Inside Height Door Width Door Height Volume Capacity Tare Weight Max Cargo
19’4″ 7’8″ 7’10” 7’8″ 7’6″ 1,172CuFt 4,916lbs 47,900lbs
5.900m 2.350m 2.393m 2.342m 2.280m 33.2CBM 2,230Kg 21,770Kg

 

Standard 40′
Inside Length Inside Width Inside Height Door Width Door Height Volume Capacity Tare Weight Max Cargo
39’5″ 7’8″ 7’10” 7’8″ 7’6″ 2,390CuFt 8,160lbs 59,040lbs
12.036m 2.350m 2.392m 2.340m 2.280m 67.7CBM 3,700Kg 26,780Kg

 

We offer regular weekly container shipping services to all major destinations including, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, South Africa and Cyprus. Weekly shipping and household removals by sole use and shared container services across the globe.

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