Dear All,

We hope to be moving to toronto this summer and are in the process of looking for reasonably priced moving companies. Was wondering if anyone knew of, perhaps, toronto based companies that have reciprocal moving companies here? or any other company that will not charge me my life savings?!?!?!

any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Mona in Zurich

I estimate the cost for around 8-10`000.- for a 6meter container and 12-15`000.- plus insurance. If its packed professionaly.

I am wondering if you don`t prefer to get new furniture when you get there. I don`t think there are realy international moving companies, usually the will organize someone to get your things to your hause from the port and to do the custom declaration. I think it is nothing you could not do yourself.

http://www.international-removals.ch/en/references.php
It is probably not on a budget.

AMJ Campbell did my family from Toronto to Houston and was good. They were not available on the short notice for me when I moved here but they do international moves.

I ended up using Premier. The reciprocal movers here were excellent. The people in Toronto were so so.

Most of the moving companies in Toronto have companies here they use. I expect it will be cheaper if you get the quote through the Canadian offices.

Freight rates have dropped in the last while but it is still expensive and I suggest you take a good look at what you have and ask yourself how much of it is worth shipping when you have to pay for it yourself. None of your appliances or electronics are going to work unless they are 110v. North American bed sizes are not the same as European sizes, and neither is the bedding. Most houses and apartments in Toronto are equipped with closets for your clothes so you do not need wardrobes. The only exception to this would be a really old house.

So, when you take off all these items are you left with furniture that you really want to ship? Most everyone has things they want to take with them, books, sentimental items, etc. You may end up with a couple of skids of boxes and for this you could go with a consolidator.

Thank you all for your advise! i think i will downsize to the bare minimum!!

Cheers,
M

We use Bytor (www.brytor.ca) when we moved to Toronto a few years back. They will be moving us to Zurich in the summer. They are responsive and pretty good.

get in touch with www.relocation-solutions.ch or www.packimpex.ch for some quotes.