A move abroad takes careful planning. Our international movers in Santa Rosa survey, pack, crate and load your household, then drive it to the port. Ask for a written quote.
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Relocating from Sonoma County to another country is an international move. Your household goods are packed, loaded into containers or crates and shipped from your origin to your destination, and the planning starts weeks ahead.
Our international movers in Santa Rosa handle the part that happens on land: we walk through your home, pack and crate every item, number it on an inventory and drive the load to the port or depot your shipping company names. Mentors Moving & Storage completes more than 1,200 moves a year company-wide.
The cost of an international move depends on details unique to each household, so we price yours in writing after the survey. It starts with the container: a shared container (LCL) or one used only for your goods (FCL), in one of three standard sizes.
Beyond the container, your quote reflects the destination country and your origin, the volume of your items, your move dates (peak season and weekends), packing and unpacking, customs clearance and paperwork fees, insurance, and storage for anything that waits here.
Your goods pass through several hands on the way to your new home. These are the stages and who runs each one.
The origin agent works for the mover you hire. In Sonoma County that is our Dutton Avenue office: we review your goods, the access at your home and the item count, then send a written quote.
The forwarder books cargo space, arranges cargo insurance and prepares the shipping papers. LCL goods wait at a consolidating warehouse to join other cargo.
The container is loaded onto the ship at the export port, and the shipping line issues the Master Bill of Lading. Ask if origin port fees (OTHC) are included.
Goods are held in a customs warehouse until cleared. A destination agent then delivers them, which helps if you do not speak the language.
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Mentor’s showed up as scheduled for an estimate for our move of 2 homes from Sonoma county to Arizona. The estimate was competitive and in writing along with other moving documents. The moving crew showed up on time and worked well loading both homes. As scheduled, the drivers and 2 local professional movers unloaded both trucks with care and diligence. Thank you for making this an easy part of moving.
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Pick an established mover with the reviews to prove it. Ask whether it 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 how its Google and Yelp reviews read. Every mover on our jobs completes a 160-hour training program.
Our Dutton Avenue office quotes and dispatches every international pickup in Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties, and anything you are not shipping can wait in our storage, monitored 24/7, until you send for it.
We pack international shipments across Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties. These pages cover moving to or from four of those towns, and the last link leads to every service our Santa Rosa office offers.
Not moving abroad yet but need the house packed for a sale or a remodel? The same movers pack full homes or single rooms, with every carton labeled.
Furniture you plan to keep but not ship can stay in storage on an item list, then come out when you return or when a buyer for it turns up.
Splitting the household between a new country and family in another state? Part of the load can travel by truck to any state on its own inventory.
Employers posting someone overseas can book the packing, storage and port delivery as one job, with a written quote for HR to approve.
A piano headed overseas gets padded and moved out of the home by movers with the board and straps for it, before it is crated for the trip.
Older parents downsizing before a move abroad get help sorting what ships, what goes to family and what goes to storage.
Each of these can be added to your international packing quote and run from the same Dutton Avenue office.
These official sources and port details help you plan the weeks before sailing.
How an export move runs with us once your shipping company sets the container date, from the first walk through the house to the hand-off at the dock.
We see the home and build the ship, store and stay lists.
Packing days are set backward from the container date on your booking.
Cartons are filled and sealed, and fragile pieces go into crates.
You check the numbered list and sign it before loading.
The truck delivers to the terminal or depot on your paperwork.
Send the date and your address, and we will price the packing, crating and port run.
At the port or depot named on your booking. We pack, crate, list and load the household here, and the shipping company you chose takes over for the ocean leg.
Your written quote is built from the 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 any storage here.
Yes. We survey both homes, keep one numbered inventory across them and load in the order your container booking calls for.
Keep travel papers, prescriptions, jewelry and work laptops with you. Anything that must be on the plane goes in the closet we leave untouched.
Yes. On survey day we mark each item to ship or to keep here, and the pieces you keep stay in our storage under your name until you send for them.
Yes. We pack overseas shipments in Sausalito, Tiburon and other Marin towns as well as across Sonoma County, with drive time billed hourly.
Send your address, the destination country and the sailing window. Call (707) 326-4479 or use the form, and we reply with a written packing and loading quote.
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3101 Gilmore Ave,
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Santa Rosa, CA 95407
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