a good shipping agent in the UK?

March 24, 2004 10:01 PM

Anyone know a good shipping agent in the UK? I have a consignment of goods being sent there from Indonesia. I'm a UK resident but won't be back there until June. The goods will arrive back just before I do & I need an agent to handle all of the admin.
posted by i_cola to Shopping (3 answers total)

Cadogan-Tate are good people. They did very well to satisfy problems caused by the stooges who handled things from Germany when I moved to the UK.
posted by Goofyy at 3:08 AM on March 25, 2004

we used pickfords to ship stuff out of the uk and their service was fine except for the time taken (which was a few weeks more than they estimated). in particular, they sub-contracted the chilean work to a company here that was very helpful and professional (exceptionally so, i think). i don't know what "shipping agent" means exactly, but i would guess that they do it (ie they're competent at managing international shipping).
posted by andrew cooke at 7:17 AM on March 25, 2004

this book it has a chapter on the ins and outs, geared to shiping cars.
posted by stbalbach at 9:24 PM on March 25, 2004