International Movers to and from Gotland

Statistics Sweden counts 60,852 residents in Gotland municipality at the end of 2025. It is a single municipality that covers the whole island, and the regional council, Region Gotland, handles street works permits, while the police handle permits for using public ground. The freight page of the ferry company, Destination Gotland, is the one place we read that sets out how a vehicle or a load is booked, what it costs and what it refuses.

The freight page we read does not list the ports in its text, so we name none; ask the freight office which port your sailing uses. Mainland zone rules are in the guide to Swedish zones and street rules. Duty relief is in the customs guide, and the route out of Britain in the UK to Sweden removals guide.

The current freight price is 287 kronor 50 öre per length metre including VAT. A loading and unloading fee is added in some cases, for example for unaccompanied vehicles, and the ticket for the driver is added. The price of carrying a car without a driver is 1,944 kronor including VAT, and the page notes that the car must be parked and fully driveable.

Extra width, overweight, dangerous goods or other special conditions add fees on top of the length-metre price. The page points to two price lists: one for freight prices from 1 April 2026 to 31 January 2027, and a second for prices from 1 February 2027. We did not read the lists, so a move in February 2027 or later should use the later list. For a move to or from the island, a rough sum in your quotation is only as good as the price list of the date of sailing.

The ferry company also advertises an all-in car package for up to five people travelling in a car, from SEK 1,250 for a car under 6 metres, on selected departures, one way and booked online. A telephone booking adds SEK 70, and the package cannot be rebooked or refunded. That is a passenger price, not a freight price, so ask your removal company which one applies to you.

The freight office books a heavy lorry whatever its length, a light lorry over 9 metres, tractors and farm machinery, vehicles with no driver, and vehicles that need the help of the stevedores' machines. A removal lorry that is a heavy lorry therefore goes through this office. The page does not say how a van under 9 metres is booked, so ask.

The company wants the registration number, and prefers it at booking. It also wants the length, the unladen weight and any load weight. Two drivers per vehicle travel at a reduced price, and the company needs the first name, surname and date of birth of every passenger. Every vehicle booked, including a lone trailer, wagon or machine, must have a working parking brake.

The freight office is open on weekdays from 09:00 to 16:00, closed for lunch from 12:00 to 13:00, with shorter hours on some days before a holiday, and its telephone number is 0498-20 13 20. Payment can be made by card online or at a terminal; cash is only taken at the cashier in the Visby terminal, and a fee of SEK 100 applies if you pay less than an hour before departure.

The page says that the company carries only goods that can be coupled to a truck or a terminal truck, and so takes no loose goods, loose pallets or the like. It also does not carry two-wheeled vehicles unaccompanied. For a household move that means boxes and furniture must travel inside a vehicle, a container or a trailer that can be handled as one unit, not as separate items on the deck.

The ticket can be rebooked and refunded until 16:00 on the day before the booked departure. After that, a cancellation costs half the price of the cancelled ticket, a change costs half the difference between the new and the old price, and a no-show costs the full price. A booking counts as a no-show if it is cancelled within an hour of departure or not used. Service vehicles with welding equipment and gas bottles may not travel on departures that carry passengers.

Region Gotland's page on traffic-management plans says that the processing time is up to 20 working days from 1 May, and that it can be longer in the summer weeks 25 to 33. The same page also says up to 15 working days for a complete application, and 20 working days in the summer season, weeks 20 to 35. The two statements differ, and we show both. Both are for works on or beside the council's roads, not for a move.

Its page on using public ground says that the police handle permits for putting up scaffolding, a container, a skylift or a storage area in connection with work, and that the police processing time is for the time being 12 to 14 weeks. The page names no removal lorry. Whether a lift for furniture counts as one of those, we cannot say. If your removal company plans a lift or a container on a public street in Visby, ask who applies and how far ahead, because the answer may be many weeks.

Ask your removal company how the load will cross: in a lorry that goes through the freight office, in a container, or in the car you travel with. Ask for the lorry's length, its weights and its plate early, because the freight office wants them at booking. Ask which price list applies on your sailing date, and whether anything on the load, such as gas bottles or a vehicle that does not run, changes the booking.

For the street at the island end, ask the council whether the lorry may stand at your door, and whether a lift needs a permit. The Sweden removals hub lists every Swedish guide, and the Stockholm guide and Uppsala guide cover the mainland rules we read.