15
Years in international removals
850k+
Verified customer enquiries
3
FIDI-accredited partners
Trusted International Moving Network
Accredited Relocation Specialists
Two quotes for the identical house can differ by thousands because they are quietly offering different amounts of help. Neither is dishonest. They just answer different questions. This page sets the levels side by side so you can decide how much you want to do yourself before you start comparing figures.
Newent sits in the north west of the county, in Forest of Dean district where 87,114 people live. It is a market town surrounded by orchards and vineyard country, and the housing runs from timber framed properties around the old centre to modern estates on the edges. That range matters here, because the right service level depends as much on the house as on the budget.
Full pack, part pack and owner pack are three different contracts with movers and packers, not three prices for the same thing.
The insurance follows the level you pick, and most policies will not pay on cartons you packed yourself. Read that clause before choosing, not after.
The crew arrives, wraps and boxes the entire house, loads it, ships it, clears it and delivers it into the rooms you nominate at the far end. You provide the inventory information and the destination address, and nothing else.
It is the dearest option and it is the only one where a single company is answerable for the whole chain. If something is damaged there is no argument about whose packing failed, because one firm did all of it. On a route with genuine value in the load, that matters more than the price difference.
This level suits anyone shipping a full family house, anyone with an employer paying, and anyone moving somewhere they have not seen. It is also the level most insurers are happiest with, because professional export packing satisfies the fragile items condition most policies carry.
The crew packs china, glass, pictures, mirrors, lamps and anything awkward. You pack books, linen, clothes and the contents of drawers. This is the level most households actually want, because it removes the risk without paying for somebody to fold your jumpers.
The saving is real but modest, since fragile packing is where the hours go. What it does not do is compromise your cover, provided the split is agreed and written into the contract, not improvised on the day.
You pack everything, the crew loads and ships. The cheapest level with a proper company behind it, and it works for households moving mostly boxed goods, students, and anyone with more time than budget.
The catch is insurance. Most policies exclude breakage in owner packed cartons, so the cover you are left with is for the container itself rather than for what is inside it. Read that clause before you choose this level instead of after.
Door to port pricing stops when the container reaches the destination terminal. Everything after that is yours to arrange. Three things follow.
Because it covers less. Set beside a door to door quote it can look like a large saving, and it is not a saving at all until you have priced destination handling, clearance and final delivery yourself.
Clearance has to happen inside the port's free period or charges start accruing daily. Managing that from a country whose customs process you have never used is the risk you are accepting in exchange for the lower number.
If you already live at the destination, speak the language and have used a local agent before, door to port can work well. For a first move to an unfamiliar country it usually costs more than it saves.
Storage is not a separate service level so much as something bolted onto whichever you pick. It comes up when a sale completes before the overseas purchase, when a posting starts before the family follows, or when a rural sale moves faster than expected.
Origin storage keeps one company responsible from collection through to delivery, which is the cleaner arrangement. Your goods sit in a warehouse here until you say go.
Destination storage can be cheaper, but it means clearing customs before you have a settled address in that country, and several countries make that awkward or impossible. Ask which side suits your specific destination instead of assuming the cheaper line wins.
Destination, rough volume, target month and which level you want. One international removal company from the network quotes exactly that, and not you receiving differently scoped numbers from a spread of international moving companies. No charge and no obligation.
Full pack means the crew wraps and dismantles everything. Part pack usually means they handle furniture and fragiles while you do cartons. Owner pack means furniture only.
The insurance follows the level. Most policies will not pay on owner packed items, and furniture you dismantled yourself sits in the same category if a joint fails.
Decide the level before the survey, not after. It changes the crew size, the hours and the price, and it is the hardest thing to alter once a date is booked.
Give each of them the same service level and the same volume, in writing. A search for international removal companies near me produces figures scoped differently unless you specify. An international removals company quoting full pack door to door against a rival quoting owner pack door to port is not more expensive, it is selling something else.
Yes, and it is worth asking for two versions at the survey stage so you can see the gap for your own house, not in the abstract. Changing after packing has been scheduled is harder, because crew size and duration are already booked.
Yes, along with Kempley, Oxenhall, Taynton, Highnam and the villages towards May Hill and the Herefordshire border. Anything in GL18 and the neighbouring parishes is collected as a Newent job. Mitcheldean and Gloucester have their own pages.
No, but it can add a shuttle to any of them. Orchard lanes and farm tracks around Newent are often too narrow or too soft for a full sized vehicle, which means a smaller van running to a larger one. Mention it and it is priced into whichever level you choose. Overseas removals are the subject, so a local move falls outside what follows. International movers and packers work faster when the rooms are cleared first. Overseas movers who work the Cotswolds plan for the approach in advance.
Forest of Dean district population from the 2021 Census as published locally by the council, nationally by the Office for National Statistics. Service level definitions follow standard international moving industry practice and no prices are quoted. Checked September 2026; we look again each autumn. Insurance conditions on owner packed cartons and destination clearance requirements change, so the matched moving company confirms the current position before booking. Read our Google reviews.
Destination country, rough volume, target month and how much help you want. An accredited international moving company prices exactly that and nothing else.
Send your move detailsInternational Removals Companies sends your chosen service level to one accredited moving company from the AGM Group network so the figure you get back is scoped the way you asked. Nothing to pay, and we neither pack nor ship.
Nearby town pages: Mitcheldean, Gloucester, Cinderford, Tewkesbury.