Planes, trains and...ships? Exporting your car from the UK to anywhere in the world

There are some tasks where you never really consider how they would actually be achieved until you have to do them yourself, and one of these is the export of vehicles. It’s a legitimate question – assuming you can’t simply drive there, what do you have to do to get your car into another country?

There have been a number of methods of vehicle export adopted over the years, including rail and air travel. However, rail travel is quite limited with regard to where the train can stop so the cars can be unloaded, and air travel is hugely expensive and only a viable option for the super-rich. That leaves ocean exporting, and that’s the option that the vast majority of people go for thanks to the huge amount of space that ships have to store vehicles and the relative safety of it as a method of transport.

It sounds like a complicated process, but the vehicle export companies in the UK have it down to a fine art and, as long as you can pay the shipping fees, you shouldn’t have any trouble arranging passage. All you have to do is make sure that you get the car down to the dock or port in good time (some companies like to have the car there up to three weeks before the shipping date, just in case) and then pick it up on the other end. In some cases, the car may even be driven to and from the relevant destinations on your behalf.

Although it’s an initially baffling task to have to complete, it couldn’t be easier for you to find an export car UK company to handle your shipping for you, giving you valuable peace of mind so you can concentrate on other things.