Speed of Transport<\/span><\/h2>\nThis may seem like an obvious difference to point out and well, it is! The speed of sea transportation is indeed much lower when compared to shipping items internationally by air. It\u2019s also not just by a small amount either, as it can be as much as 30 times faster! With sea freight forwarding, depending on the destination, you can expect for your items to be traveling anything from 2 weeks to around 2 months. <\/span><\/p>\nSo, when comparing the speed for air v sea freight, air will always come out on top. However, this doesn\u2019t always have to be an issue as long as you factor this into and around the other considerations for your move abroad. If time is of the essence, then it is a no-brainer to choose air shipping, but if your timescales allow, sea freight could still be a contender. <\/span><\/p>\nCost and Budget <\/span><\/h2>\nIt won\u2019t surprise you to know, that is significantly cheaper to ship your items by sea than by air. However, whilst this is true some of the time, it is also not always the case and very much depends on what you are specifically shipping. <\/span><\/p>\nIf you have a large and heavy volume of cargo, then shipping by sea is potentially your cheapest option due to the shipment being charged by volume, rather than by weight. <\/span><\/p>\nWith a smaller shipment, the price gap lessens and, in some cases, it may well end up being less expensive to use air freight.<\/span><\/p>\nWhether shipping by air or by sea, you do need to allow budget for the destination and customs charges and it is worth noting that warehousing fees are less expensive at airports. <\/span><\/p>\nSo, as a rule, if you need it quickly and it\u2019s not a heavy and bulky shipment, air freight might be your best option – but if you have time to play with, have a tight budget, and it\u2019s your entire home\u2019s contents that needs to be shipped, you might be best choosing sea freight. <\/span><\/p>\nHowever, there is another option! Thankfully, most shipping companies also offer a combination of both sea and air, which can be really useful when you have a limited budget and timeframe. For example, you could ship your most essential and valuable items via air to arrive at the same time your move-in date and ship the remainder of your non-essential items separately, ahead of time via sea freight to arrive at a slightly later date.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The process of moving to another country can seem quite overwhelming at times. With so many options and choices to be made, you may be struggling to keep up and make the important decisions necessary. The reality can quite quickly creep up on you, as to just how much \u201cstuff\u201d needs to now happen to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":21020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[14812,16040,2286,4767,8984,8397,16041,16042,2459,4310,5435,13922,14186,2479,16039,16043,20989,6726,16044,2198],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shipping.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33476,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21017\/revisions\/33476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21017"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}