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RORO Shipping
Did you know we now provide ‘RoRo’ (Roll-on Roll-off) car shipping between Australia and the UK? At ShipMyCar we now provide RoRo car shipping from Australia to the UK. There is often confusion about exactly what roll on roll off shipping is and how the process works. The best way to think of a Roll…
Ukraine Car Import to UK
We have been contacted by a number of Ukrainian refugees here in the UK who are seeking advice on how to register their Ukrainian car in the UK following DVLA guidelines stating that vehicles from Ukraine will still need to be registered if staying in the UK longer than six months. For an instant estimate…
Thinking of shipping a car from the UK to Australia? There are a number of factors to consider as well as the cost of getting the car there. We go through the process frmo obtaining a car shipping quote to import approval, asbestos, quarantine costs and more
The value of pound sterling has recently dropped as low as £1/$1.03, but on the flip side, container prices have started to drop (in some cases dramatically) from their recent high levels. Since Brexit & Covid we have switched a number of routes from container to RoRo (roll-on-roll-off) purely because the cost of containers have…
Due to the current climate and the high cost of container shipping, we offer roll-on-roll-off car shipping from the UK to the USA. RoRo Car Shipping Quote RoRo stands for roll-on-roll-off shipping. Instead of your car / vehicle being loaded in a container, it is instead loaded onto a giant car ferry. Vehicles are loaded…
Corvette C8 in the UK
The Corvette C8 is very different to previous Corvettes, it now features coil overs instead of lead springs and with a much more angular exterior. Power is up 40bhp from the standard C7 Stingray from its 6.2L V8, but now with the engine sitting behind you in a mid-engine layout. The interior is also very…
The UK has thousands of franchised and independent car dealers all buying, selling and part-ex’ing cars for sale. Used car prices have shot up over the last five months with Cap HPI marking August 2021 as the fifth consecutive month of used car price growth. Since April 2021 prices have gone up 16.6% with strong…
A car shipping business set up by two school friends is celebrating its 15th anniversary after transporting thousands of vehicles around the world. Nick Roach and Kingsley Read set up ShipMyCar in 2006 and now operate from a 12,000 sq ft warehouse in Milton Keynes. The company aims to simplify the often complex process of importing a…
Shipping your car when you move to UK Even in the midst of a global pandemic, there are thousands of people currently moving out of Hong Kong with many looking to the UK to relocate. We have seen a large increase in the volume of interest in car shipping from Hong Kong to the UK…
What is Transshipment?
If you are shipping a car or have shipped a car in the last few months you may have had heard that your vessel has been transshipped. This usually means you are provided with a new, slightly later arrival time for your car to arrive in the UK. So why is that and what is…
So Brexit happened, and Covid happened, and everything kept moving fairly smoothly. Yes in the last few months there have been delays creeping in to most areas of the car shipping, import and registration processes. We look into why.