What is the best way to ship household goods from US to Caribbean?

Question

i am having the most difficult time locating information on barrels or how to get things from midwest to caribbean.....please help i am moving in a few months!

Yankee Sailor -- to Trinidad
i can't find any information on shipping barells. I used to know someone who shipped those, but we lost contact. I only plan on 1 or 2 barells full & i don't want to pay thousands of dollars

Answer 1

where in the Caribbean? The two big players working out of Miami and Jacksonville are Crowley Shipping and Tropical....both have web sites.

Answer 2

No bigger means than to touch a "common" transport corporation and ask. I could suggest that you just use a respectable worldwide corporation to manage this. The most cost-effective isn't regularly the first-rate course. You will pay to have the extra luggage weight at the airplane however it's $$$ consistent with pound. Additionally, you desire a respectable corporation in order that if some thing does occur....you've somewhere to dossier a declare which has a top threat of having paid and or located!!! Furthermore take virtual alternatives of what was once packed, layer by means of layer and an itemized record with approximate alternative importance so you've documentation of the whole lot, simply in case it was once misplaced. Include a reputation and cope with with touch data close the backside and close the highest....even writing your data at the within of the wall of the field can aid reunite your units with you simply in case. That stated...UPS is certainly your first-rate, most secure option to manage this worldwide cargo subsequent to paying extra for the airline to do that. Wife has performed this from England, France, Belgium and Switzerland and UPS has certainly not allow her down. If shipped on the proper time it'll just about meet you there!