Door to Door Story

We dispatch our staff to couduct a survey of your residence in order to prepare an estimate for your moving. We are happy to offer any detailed advice on what may be the best moving style for you.

At our office, we calculate the total cost of your moving and send you our best rate.

Once you agree to our rate, we dispatch an experienced packing crew to your residence along with all necessary packing materials.

Our packing specialists pack any odd shaped items, and any breakable items with utmost care and sensitivity.
They are trained to disassemble furniture pieces in order to reduce their size and save on volume.

We assign a number to each packed box while making an inventory list written in English. We load the truck while checking the number on each box.

After all the packing and loading work is completed, our team leader will ask you to confirm the inventory list and sign it for approval.

We bring the packed items into our bonded warehouse.Then we pack them into wooden liftvans or tri-wall cartons, and check the weight and size.

We prepare all the required documents for export custom clearance and for cargo shipment.

We pack the wooden crates into 20' or 40' containers. A container may be shared with other shippers.
For some of the big moves, a 20'/40' container may be loose loaded without the wooden crates.
If loose loading, one shipper may occupy one 20 ft or 40 ft container. A 20 ft container can load about 27-28 m³, and a 40ft container can load about 54-56 m³.
The inner LWH dimensions of a 20 ft container are 5.9 m x 2.34 m x 2.21 m.
The inner LWH dimensions of a 40 ft container size are 12.04m x 2.34 m x 2.39 m.

The shipment will be cleared through export customs as personal effects on the Japan side.

The 20'/40' containers will be loaded on board.

The vessel departs for its destination.
The date of departure is approximately 10 days from the date of packing.
To see the approximate transit times to major destination ports, please click here

At the destination port/terminal, the containers are unloaded and their contents are separated into respective shippers.

The wooden crates are opened.

Our destination moving agent will clear the shipment through import customs as personal effects.
You are requested to submit passport copies (your face page and the landing stamp page) after you have entered the destination country. Some custom forms may also need to be submitted.

After an appointement for delivery is made, your personal effects will be delivered to your new residence, to your respective rooms.

We do the unpacking, the assembling of disassembled furniture, and placing of furniture into required places.

We remove the packing materials on the same day.

We acquire from you the final approval for the completion of the entire moving process.
We do thank you very much for choosing Economove Japan.We hope to serve you with our best quality services again in the future.