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Anyone can put a logo on a website. This page is about how to tell whether the company quoting you is what it says it is. That matters more on an international move than on a local one because the goods leave the country before anything goes wrong.
International Removals Companies is not a removal company. It is a free enquiry service. Your details go to one vetted international mover for your crossing, and everything after that happens between you and that company. So the checks below are worth doing whoever you end up speaking to, including through us.
Five accreditations come up repeatedly in this industry: FIDI FAIM Certified, BAR Overseas, IAM, EUROMOVERS and FEDEMAC. They are not interchangeable and they do not all mean the same thing.
The single most useful habit is to treat a logo as a claim rather than a fact, and to spend five minutes checking it. Every one of these bodies publishes a member list.
Whichever company you use, the mechanics are the same: goods clear at Limassol and deliver to Paphos, Larnaca, Nicosia or the Famagusta free areas. Ask any mover to state the road leg to your town, which runs from nothing to about 100 kilometres, and how many days it adds.
FIDI FAIM Certified is the most demanding of the five. It is an audited quality standard for international movers, reassessed periodically rather than granted once, and it covers financial standing as well as operational process.
BAR Overseas is the overseas group of the British Association of Removers. It applies to UK companies handling international moves and carries a code of practice and a dispute route.
IAM, the International Association of Movers, is a large global trade association. Membership signals scale and network reach rather than an audit.
EUROMOVERS and FEDEMAC are European networks. They indicate a mover is part of an established European grouping with partners across the continent.
Note the wording carefully. FIDI FAIM is a certification. The others are memberships or networks. A company describing all five as "certified" is telling you something about its attention to detail.
Each of these bodies publishes a searchable member list. Look the company up by its legal name rather than its trading name, because the two often differ and the registration sits with the legal entity.
Check the company number against the national register. In the UK that is Companies House. A moving company that has existed for six months and claims twenty years of experience will show it there.
Ask which entity is actually handling the move. On an international route, collection, shipping and delivery are often three companies. That is normal. What is not normal is nobody being willing to tell you who they are.
What is included in this figure, and what is charged separately? Who handles customs clearance at the Cyprus end? What insurance level applies, and what is excluded from it?
What happens if my dates move? What happens if the goods cannot reach the property and a shuttle is needed? Is there storage available at either end, and at what rate?
Who packs, and is owner-packed accepted for insurance? What is the payment schedule, and in which currency? And who is my point of contact once the container has sailed?
Get the answers in writing. A written quote that answers nine questions is worth more than a lower figure that answers none.
No. It is a free enquiry service. Your move details go to one vetted international mover for your move, and everything after that happens between you and that company. The checks on this page apply whoever you end up booking with.
FIDI FAIM is an audited international quality certification, reassessed periodically and covering financial standing as well as process. BAR Overseas is the overseas group of the British Association of Removers, applying to UK companies and carrying a code of practice.
No. IAM is a global trade association and EUROMOVERS and FEDEMAC are European networks. They indicate scale and network reach rather than an audit. A company describing all five as certified is being loose with the wording.
Each body publishes a searchable member list. Look the company up by its legal name rather than its trading name, since registration sits with the legal entity and the two often differ.
No. On an international route, collection, shipping and delivery are often handled by three companies working together. That is normal practice. What should concern you is nobody being willing to tell you who they are.
What is included and what is charged separately, who clears customs, the insurance level and its exclusions, what happens if dates move or a shuttle is needed, storage rates, packing arrangements, the payment schedule and currency, and your point of contact.
Enough to feel informed, but the number matters less than what each one actually says. A written quote answering the nine questions above tells you more than three figures with no detail behind them.
A substantial minority of enquiries here are not from the UK. What Britain calls removals, much of the world calls relocation or moving. It is the same service and the same mover either way.
Rules and thresholds change. Use the Republic of Cyprus Department of Customs and Excise and GOV.UK for the current position rather than any removals page. If the property is a holiday home rather than your main residence, say so before anything ships: transfer of residence relief applies to a main home and duty and VAT may be payable on a second one.
Every destination here is covered. The local detail is on each page.
Where the goods are now, where they need to be, and when. A vetted mover reviews the detail before coming back to you.
Get your free quoteInternational Removals Companies is a free enquiry service run by DATACONTEXT (UK) LTD, company number 07425576, running since 2010. It connects customers with one vetted international mover from the AGM Group network. It is not a removal company.
Accreditations across the network: FIDI FAIM Certified, BAR Overseas, IAM, EUROMOVERS, FEDEMAC. AGM Group: agm.group