A small load of around 5 cubic metres, roughly one room, typically lands between £2,000 and £2,500 from the UK to mainland Greece. A 15 cubic metre load, about a one bedroom flat, runs from around £2,300 to £3,100. A full household in a dedicated vehicle or 20 foot container usually starts near £3,000 and climbs with volume.
Treat these as honest starting points rather than quotes. They assume mainland delivery with reasonable access at both ends. A Greek island adds a ferry leg that can put £700 to £1,000 on the same load: the difference between delivering to Thessaloniki and delivering to Chania is close to a thousand pounds at identical volume.
The rest of this page explains what moves a real quote off those figures, in the order it affects the total. Your written quote gives the exact number once a mover has seen what you own.
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Cubic metres first, then whether you take shared space, a container to yourself or a dedicated vehicle. Sharing costs less per cubic metre and takes longer. Exclusive use costs more and fixes your dates. Below roughly a one bedroom flat, sharing almost always wins. The full comparison
A second sailing means a second handling stage, its own schedule and often a smaller vehicle for the last run. This is the single most common reason a Greek quote gets revised upward after acceptance. Lefkada is the exception, reached by road over the causeway. How island legs work
Stairs without a lift, a lift too small for a sofa, no parking, a vehicle ban in an old town, a long carry from where the lorry can legally stop. Each adds crew hours and sometimes a shuttle vehicle. Photograph the street as well as the rooms when you enquire.
Sea freight shipping containerises your goods and sails them to a Greek port, normally Piraeus. Road freight drives through France and Italy and crosses the Adriatic by ferry into Patras or Igoumenitsa. They price on different things.
Sea is priced on space. Once you fill a container, cost per cubic metre drops sharply, which is why a full house usually goes this way. Road is priced on time: driver hours, the ferry crossing and the vehicle. That makes it competitive on smaller loads and expensive on large ones.
Which Italian crossing a road move uses matters more than people expect. Brindisi to Igoumenitsa runs about eight hours. Venice to Patras is over thirty. Same goods, same destination, a meaningful difference in what you pay for.
Piraeus handles most container traffic, which suits Athens and Attica. For a northern address it means several hundred kilometres of inland trucking on top, and Thessaloniki can remove that leg entirely.
Crete can take goods directly through Heraklion or Souda rather than via Piraeus. Ask which port your quote assumes. If it does not say, it has not been worked out.
Summer is the expensive season on this route, and not for the obvious reason. Adriatic ferries fill with holiday traffic from late spring, so freight space on the short crossings goes early and a driver ends up on a longer sailing.
Winter is cheaper and less certain. Sailings are easier to book, weather can delay a crossing, and island schedules run thin. If your dates can flex, the shoulder months are the sensible answer on both counts.
Flexibility itself is worth money. A shared load with a movable collection window costs considerably less than the same goods on a fixed date, because the mover can fit you around other work rather than the reverse.
None of these are hidden charges if they are on the quote. They become hidden charges when nobody asked the questions that would have surfaced them.
The most common mistake on this route is comparing totals from quotes that cover different work. A lower price on a Greek move usually means something has been left out rather than done more cheaply.
Go through both quotes and check the same six things appear on each: the packing level, the ferry or sea leg named, the insurance level and its exclusions, storage terms, who files the customs entry, and the final delivery vehicle. If one quote is silent on any of them, that is your difference.
Then check the volume both are based on. A quote produced from a phone call is an estimate the company can revise on loading day. A quote produced from a video or home survey is a price they have to stand behind.
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As a working guide for 2026: around 2,000 to 2,500 pounds for a 5 cubic metre load to the mainland, 2,300 to 3,100 pounds for 15 cubic metres, and from roughly 3,000 pounds for a full household in a dedicated vehicle or container. Island delivery adds a ferry leg, typically another 700 to 1,000 pounds. The exact figure turns on your volume, your route and access at both ends, which is why a written quote follows a survey rather than a form.
Volume, by a wide margin. Not distance, not the number of rooms. An afternoon spent deciding what to sell or leave behind changes the total more than any negotiation over a quote will. Get that done before the survey rather than after the quote arrives.
Per cubic metre, sharing is cheaper, and for anything up to roughly a one bedroom flat it usually wins outright. What you pay instead is time, because your goods wait for the container to fill, and more handling, because they are consolidated and separated at each end.
Almost always because they cover different work. Check that both name the packing level, the sea or ferry leg, the insurance and its exclusions, storage terms, who files the customs entry and the final delivery vehicle. A cheaper number on this route is usually a shorter list of inclusions.
The shoulder months. Adriatic ferry space fills with holiday traffic from late spring, which pushes freight onto longer crossings, and island sailings thin out from autumn. Flexibility is worth money in itself: a movable collection window on a shared load costs meaningfully less than a fixed date.
Starting somewhere else? what a Scottish collection adds, what transhipment from Liverpool adds, the Severn crossing from Cardiff, a Yorkshire collection.
Moving from elsewhere in Europe? why Norway costs more, the German comparison, Swedish routing, Danish bridge tolls.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, Founder, International Removals Companies.