Hi
I’m moving household goods (ocean freight) from US to Japan. I really need to keep costs down. I found a pretty good shipping company to ship out to Japan, but they don’t do anything beyond the harbor, so in essence no customs and delivery. We’re not using Kuroneko bc they said they’re completely booked and can’t accommodate our schedule. Nippon express is also not taking new clients right now.
I’ve looked through what others posted but after researching it looks like things have gotten really strict more recently especially on the Japan side.
My questions are:
• Is the most cost effective way to hire a customs broker (for Japan side) who also delivers to our final address? I got a quote from Economove and it was over ¥300,000. That is over budget but also not sure if they’re just trying to overcharge me.
• if it’s better or somewhat affordable even just to have a customs broker, what’s a reasonable quote for a 20ft container? Is there a company you recommend?
• is it better to have a customs broker just do customs and then we have a separate moving company to deliver or we pick up ourselves after customs is done?
• or is it even more cost saving to do the customs, loading, delivery, etc ourselves? If so, how hard is the customs to do on our own? What do we need to do?
Thank you
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