Moving overseas from the Valley takes planning and coordination. Mentors Moving & Storage packs, crates and lists your Phoenix household, then loads it for the port. Get a quote.
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Moving your household to another country is an international move. Phoenix international movers load your household goods into containers or crates and send them from your origin toward your destination, and a lot of planning comes first.
Our part starts in your Valley home: export packing, wood crates for fragile pieces, a numbered inventory and the truck to the port. Our Tempe office has served Phoenix since 2020 and plans every pickup around the container cutoff your shipping company sets.
No two international moves cost the same, so we quote each one after we see what is going. Your goods ship in a shared container (LCL) or a full container of their own (FCL), and the container and the factors below set the price.
Several companies handle your goods between Phoenix and your new home. These are the four stages.
The origin agent, who works for the mover you hire, reviews your goods, the access at the home and the item count, then writes your quote. In the Valley, that visit is ours.
The freight forwarder books cargo space, arranges cargo insurance and prepares the shipping documents. It coordinates the shipment but does not pick up or haul your goods.
At the export port the container is loaded onto the ship. The shipping line issues the Master Bill of Lading. If your quote does not list origin port fees (OTHC), ask before you book.
Goods wait in a customs warehouse until the destination country clears them. A destination agent then delivers, which helps if you do not speak the local language.
Sky Harbor has nonstop flights to cities abroad, so many families fly out of Phoenix soon after their shipment loads. Book the flight once the pickup date is set, and keep passports, birth certificates, medicine and laptops with you, never in the shipment.
Before you go, check USA.gov for Americans abroad, enroll in STEP so the U.S. Embassy can reach you, find your embassy on USEmbassy.gov, get an International Driving Permit from AAA and read travel updates from the U.S. Department of State.
Absolutely amazing interstate move! Luis and his moving crew in CA were incredible. David, Raoul and Luis were very polite, efficient and professional. Luis was our driver, each time they were right on time, and his crew on the CO side was as professional, courteous and efficient as well. Thank you, Chris, Nick and Tim and thank you Mentors Moving for making an interstate move a true breeze and as stress-free as it could possibly be. If there were more stars to give I would give them. Liliane
Contacted Mentors Moving in the Bay Area in Nov 2020 for a move from San Francisco to Scottsdale in Jann 2021. I have to say that they hit the ball out of the park. Every interaction from virtual – email AND phone – to those with the movers themselves on each side was above and beyond. I don’t believe that I can overstate the amazing customer service that we received, the respect that they showed and the care with which they moved our items. Special shoutouts to David, Daniel and Juan (and the Phoenix-based moving crew.) Great value with a professional, keenly customer-service centric outfit. The only thing that could have pleased us more would have been if they didn’t charge us for the move 🙂 Kudos to Mentors Movers!!
David is the guy for you! I was tasked with helping my Mom move apartments from across the country as she lived in AZ and I lived in PA. It was a pretty sudden need and David at Mentors was who I called. David took charge and treated my Mom like his own. I got an estimate based on what was in the apartment and how long it would take. They showed up on time and got everything moved with ease and in perfect condition. Really took a lot of stress out of it for both of us since she was in a Rehab facility at the time and I couldn’t get there last minute. I highly recommend them which if you couldn’t tell by the reviews, they take pride in a satisfactory experience.
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Before you hire, ask whether the mover is licensed and insured, how long it has been in business, whether its movers are background-checked, whether it has the equipment for an export load, and what its Google and Yelp reviews say. Our movers each finish a 160-hour training program, and the company completes more than 1,200 moves a year.
Our Kyrene Road office in Tempe quotes and dispatches every international pickup in the Valley. If the house sells before the ship sails, your goods can wait in climate-controlled storage until they go to the port.
We pack overseas shipments in homes all over the metro. These pages give local moving details for four areas, or see all of our Phoenix moving services.
Learn the customs rules, housing and costs in your new country before you choose what ships.
Apply early, since approval times set the earliest date you can move.
Gather passports, birth certificates and driver licenses, and keep them with you.
An organized home is easier and faster to pack, and you ship less volume.
Ask your carrier about service abroad and confirm your health coverage overseas.
Book flights and hotel rooms, and look into a bank account abroad before you leave.
Tell us the destination and sailing window, and we will price the packing and the drive to port.
Yes. We pack, crate and list every item, then load the truck that takes your goods to the port.
Keep passports, birth certificates, medicine, cash and laptops with you. Hazardous items such as propane, paint, gasoline and aerosols cannot ride on our trucks.
Book as soon as your shipping company gives you a container date. We plan packing days backward from that cutoff, and larger homes take more than one day.
Yes. We split the inventory into a shipping list and a storage list on survey day, and each load goes where it belongs.
It depends on your container (shared LCL or a full 20-foot or 40-foot FCL), your destination, the volume you ship, your dates, packing, customs and paperwork fees, insurance and storage. We review the home and send a written quote.
Yes. We pack international shipments across the metro, from the West Valley to the East Valley, with drive time billed hourly.
Send your address, destination country and sailing window. Call (480) 619-8240 or use the form, and our Tempe office replies with a written packing quote.
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