Corsica Removals: The Sea Crossing From Marseille

Ajaccio had 76,320 residents and Bastia 46,867 in INSEE's 2023 figures, in Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse. The Channel leg is set out in our guide to Calais and the Channel crossing, and the customs side in the guide to removals from the UK to France.

The same page is plain about the limits: the offer covers vehicles and what is loaded in them, and the company does not provide packing or carry pallets on their own. A household load therefore needs a vehicle, which may be a removal company's lorry or a van you load yourself.

The price depends mainly on the length transported, expressed in linear metres, the type of goods and the destination. To get a quote, you give the vehicle type, dimensions, volume and the nature of the load, and the company sends a proposal.

At Ajaccio, CORSICA linea's freight agency sits at the Gare Maritime Cargo on boulevard Sampiero. It says all kinds of freight use the same port entrance as passengers. We read no timetable, so no crossing time is stated; ask the removal company which port and operator it books.

Marseille is the mainland port in both operators' lists, and its city guide sets out the council's moving rules for a street there.

Ask each council whether a parking or traffic order is needed, how many days ahead, what it costs and who fits the signs. Ask the removal company too whether the lorry fits the streets of the old town.

For sticker classes and the heavy lorry weekend ban on the mainland leg, see the guide to Crit’Air stickers and lorry rules, and for a car or pet that travels as well, the pet transport guide. An island reached by road instead is the Île de Ré, behind a toll bridge.