Moving abroad takes planning, packing and careful coordination. Mentors Moving & Storage packs, lists and loads your Bakersfield household for the voyage. Request your free quote.
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Any move that takes your household out of the United States is an international move. Our Bakersfield international movers pack your goods, load them into a container or crates and send them from your home toward the port, where the shipping line takes over for the crossing.
Several companies touch the shipment along the way, and each has its own job. The steps further down this page show who does what. Mentors Moving & Storage has moved households since 2006, completes more than 1,200 moves a year company-wide, and every mover finishes a 160-hour training program before working in your home.
Every international move is priced on its own details, so we give you a written quote after we see what is shipping. The first choice is the container. Your goods either share a container with other cargo (LCL) or fill a container of their own (FCL), and an ocean move uses one of three standard box sizes.
Your final quote is based on the country you are moving to and where you live now, the volume of your belongings, your move dates (peak season and weekends cost more), packing and unpacking you add, customs clearance and paperwork fees, insurance, and any storage before the ship sails. Unless you ship a lot of furniture, an LCL move is usually the better fit.
Two details shape the drive south.
We set the pickup date backward from the terminal cutoff.
Your shipment passes through several hands between Bakersfield and your new home. Here is who handles each stage.
The origin agent works near your current home for the moving company you hire. On a Bakersfield move that is us: we review your goods, the access at the house and the item count, then give you a written quote.
The freight forwarder books cargo space, arranges cargo insurance and prepares the shipping documents. An LCL load waits at a consolidating warehouse until it joins other cargo in one container.
The container is loaded onto the vessel at the export port. The shipping line issues the Master Bill of Lading listing everything shipped. Check that origin port fees (OTHC) appear on your quote.
At the destination port, goods wait in a customs warehouse until cleared, and rules differ by country. A destination agent then handles delivery. Destination port fees on an estimate are normal.
A few official sources help you prepare. USA.gov collects guidance for Americans living outside the country. Enroll in the State Department’s Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), so the U.S. Embassy can reach you in an emergency and you get safety updates for your new country.
Find the embassy or consulate for your destination on USEmbassy.gov. An International Driving Permit comes from AAA, which the State Department authorizes to issue it, and the U.S. Department of State posts current travel information.
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Export packing happens inside the home, so our movers drive to households north of Bakersfield as well as across the city. Each of these four towns has its own page with local moving details.
A home that sells early is no problem. The household can sit in our 48,000-square-foot storage facility until loading day, and anything you keep in the U.S. can stay there while you live abroad.
Packers box the whole house or only the kitchen, closets and fragile rooms, with materials brought to your door and a room name on every carton.
Transferred abroad by your employer? We give HR a written quote for the packing and the port run, so the company approves one number before work starts.
Not every piece goes overseas. Furniture headed to family in another state can travel on a separate long distance load with its own inventory.
Upright and grand pianos are padded, strapped to a board and moved by movers who plan the stairs and turns before lifting.
Pieces going to relatives in Los Angeles, San Diego or the Bay Area move as an in-state job, priced by the hour from the same office.
One written quote can cover packing, storage and every load, so you see a single price for the Kern County side of the move.
Tell us the destination and container week, and we price the packing and trucking.
Each quote is built from your container choice, the volume you ship, your dates, the packing you add, customs and paperwork fees, insurance and any storage. We see the home first, then send a written price.
Your shipping line decides and prints the terminal on your booking. For Kern County that is often a terminal at Los Angeles or Long Beach, and we time the truck to its cutoff.
Yes. If your shipping company drops a container at the curb, our movers load it by the hour, heavy pieces low and gaps filled so nothing shifts.
FCL means a full container used only for your goods. LCL means your goods share a container with other cargo after a stop at a consolidating warehouse. Most households ship LCL.
Yes. On the walk-through we mark which pieces sail and which stay, then the second group goes to storage on its own truck.
Fuel, propane tanks, paint, cleaning chemicals and aerosol cans stay off our trucks. Your shipping line may restrict more items, so check its list before packing day.
Have a sailing date? Call our Bakersfield office at (661) 325-6683.
Share your street address, where the shipment is going and the terminal cutoff date. Phone (661) 325-6683 or fill in the form, and our Gilmore Avenue office emails a written price.
We only contact you about this request. Your number is never shared.
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