🏩 Shipping for Armed Forces • UK relocation specialists • Since 1998

Shipping for Armed Forces
Posting overseas or resettling abroad? We’ll ship your belongings

Whether you’re posted overseas or leaving the service and starting a new life abroad, we collect your personal effects from your UK door and ship them to your destination — by air for speed or sea for value.

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Service life moves you, and so does life after it. We’ve shipped personal effects for forces personnel and veterans relocating from the UK since 1998 — for overseas postings, and for resettlement moves to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and beyond.

Where we ship for forces moves

Postings and resettlement — and how we ship there

Wherever you’re headed, we get your belongings there:

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Australia, NZ & Canada. The most popular resettlement destinations — full-household sea freight for an emigration move, air for the essentials.

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Overseas postings. Personal effects shipped to your posting, alongside any official entitlement.

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Full household or a few boxes. From a single shipment of boxes to a whole home — we scale to the move.

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Door to door. Collected from your UK address, delivered to your new one — no depot runs.

What to send

What to ship

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Send. personal effects, household goods and the belongings that set you up in a new country — by sea for a full home, air for what you need first.

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Mind the restrictions: anything powered or containing batteries must be declared, and some items (certain equipment, replicas) need clearance. Tell us what’s in the shipment and we’ll advise before you pack.

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Batteries: no lithium batteries in a standard shipment, including inside laptops, phones, tablets and power banks. Batteries can be packed and exported as declared dangerous goods — ask us before you pack.

Getting the timing right

Timing it around your move

Whether it’s a posting date or a resettlement timeline, plan backwards from it. Air freight is typically 4–10 working days, subject to space and flight availability with the carriers. A full household by sea is far cheaper but runs to weeks — roughly 4 to 12 depending on destination and sailing dates, so allow a week or two either side.

Tell us your date and destination and we’ll plan the shipment around it.

How it works

How it works, step by step

Quote & book. Tell us what you’re sending and where. We give you a clear quote up front — and as long as your shipment is what you told us, that’s the price you pay, subject to airline rates at the time of booking.

Door collection. We collect from your address anywhere in the UK — no depot runs, no airport queues.

Pack & itemise. We export-pack and prepare the inventory customs needs, so your belongings clear smoothly at the other end.

Ship by air or sea. Air for speed, sea for value — delivered to your new address abroad.

Common questions

Shipping for armed forces — your questions answered

Can you handle a resettlement / emigration move? +

Yes — full-household moves to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and beyond are among the most common we handle. We collect from your UK door and deliver to your new home.

Can this sit alongside an official move? +

Yes — we handle the personal shipment that falls outside any official entitlement, with a clear itemised quote.

How long does it take? +

Air freight is typically 4–10 working days plus clearance; sea freight runs to weeks — roughly 4 to 12 depending on destination and sailing dates.

Are there items I can’t ship? +

Anything powered or containing lithium batteries must be declared, and some equipment or replicas need clearance. Tell us what’s in the shipment and we’ll advise before you pack.

Ready to plan your move?

Tell us your destination and your timeline, and we’ll come back with a quote and a realistic transit-time estimate — before you commit to anything.

Get a quote 📞 0800 096 38 39

Shipping for Armed ForcesPosting overseas or resettling abroad? We’ll ship your belongings