Thread: Shipping container transport.

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You tell then what you have to move, where it has to go and when and it works like a reverse auction.

Diana

If your going to hire or buy your own container its easy enough to arrange moving it up there with Rail freight Victoria
All you have to do is have dropped off and picked up at each end
Hoffman's in Victoria do a lot of containers to the rail yards if remember right
Not sure about Cairns

Not wanting to make you nervous or anything but my friend owns a trucking company and told me a story about a guy who lost a D6 dozer for 3 months on the rail system!
They couldn't find it. In the end he went looking for it himself, following the rail lines down the coast and eventually found it shunted up a back track with a few other carriages.

I had a 20ft container moved from Gladstone to Blackbutt by truck and cost $950, distance was 450k. We also had a 100,000lt tank sent from Toowoomba to Gladstone by train. It was a steel tank that was assembled on site. It went to Rockhampton first then it was split up onto 3 wagons and each wagon was sent to Gladstone on separate trains. QR? Quite Ridiculus.

Originally Posted by brianwood

Not wanting to make you nervous or anything but my friend owns a trucking company and told me a story about a guy who lost a D6 dozer for 3 months on the rail system!
They couldn't find it. In the end he went looking for it himself, following the rail lines down the coast and eventually found it shunted up a back track with a few other carriages.

At least most if not all the rail freight companies are private now. NSW Freight Rail was contracted to take a harvester from Sydney to Cowra to be ready for the next wheat harvest, after the harvesting season was over the machine still had not arrived. At the same time the Stationmaster at Bomaderry was contacting Freight Rail to find out why a wagon with a wheat harvester not ordered in the Shoalhaven still hadn't been moved off his siding. (Bomaderry = Nowra-Bomaderry) Freight Rail couldn't even spell.

Originally Posted by Mudnut

Due to the high costs of moving, I am considering purchasing a 40' shipping container, and having it shipped north, after I have my household loaded into the container. I might even rent a container if it is viable to do so.

Some removalists do just this. They drop the container off to you. You fill it & give them a call when it's ready. They come, pick it up & deliver it to your new address.

Give dial a box a call we used them to move to W.A.

Jeff

ok a couple of things for you:
firstly a container has to be certified before it is allowed to go on a train do not buy one with out current certification, it's a bloody sight easier than buying one then having to fix it so that you can then pay out more money to get it certifiedThe other option is to truck it if a trucking company will take it uncertified.

secondly a 20" container is much much cheaper to move on the road than a 40' container so even though 2 x 20' containers is more to buy after you work out the road transport component it may end up cheaper

some things I found out after buying a 40' container and moving it from NT to SA