So you’re moving abroad and have decided to take your vehicle with you, you’re unsure of the procedures or the legal implications involved when shipping a vehicle overseas? First Base Freight will be on hand 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer any questions that you may have. We have many years … Continue reading How to Make Car Shipping Easier
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5 Steps to Shipping Your Car to The U.S
When planning to ship your vehicle from the UK to the U.S it often seems like a tremendous task ahead of yourself. But with this simple 5 step guide we will aim to help you understand what you need to do. 1) Before You Go Before you go about looking to ship your … Continue reading 5 Steps to Shipping Your Car to The U.S
How to Ship Your Vehicle to Canada
Export to Canada is simple to arrange here at First Base Freight Ltd, as we have a weekly Roll on/Roll off service leaving from the UK port of Southampton to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada. We also offer a transit by Groupage and Container which will ship from Liverpool UK, to Montreal, Canada. The main … Continue reading How to Ship Your Vehicle to Canada
How to Ship Your Motorcycle Overseas
When shipping your motorcycle overseas It can sometimes be completely different to how you would normally ship your average car, you still have you’re the option to ship your motorcycle via Roll on/Roll off (RoRo) and container shipping, but RoRo isn’t always as common when shipping your bike as it is with shipping other types … Continue reading How to Ship Your Motorcycle Overseas
How to apply for an Ozone Substance/Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Equipment Licence
When shipping vehicles to Australia is vitally important to your move to make sure that your car passes all of the examinations that that may have to pass before it can leave the port one check is for vehicles which contain Refrigerant Gases. These gasses are usually found within vehicles like motorhomes and caravans that … Continue reading How to apply for an Ozone Substance/Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Equipment Licence
Shipping Your Vintage Car and Making Sure That it Will be Safe
When planning to shipping your vintage car, we know that you want to make sure that it is going to be safest it can possibly be since you have spent who knows how many hours looking for that perfect car and then all that extra time you spent getting it roadworthy and to the standard … Continue reading Shipping Your Vintage Car and Making Sure That it Will be Safe
Southampton set to expand its dock facilities
We’re interested in anything relating to car shipping at First Base Freight so naturally our attention was drawn to news recently about a port expansion at Southampton. Apparently this is a result of a boom in car traffic and we thought we’d take a closer look. Southampton has been struggling to cope with the recent … Continue reading Southampton set to expand its dock facilities
Why you Shouldn’t Pack Your Personal Items When Shipping Your Car Overseas
We all know that when shipping your car overseas, it can be a highly stressful time, and you feel that you may need to take every shortcut possible to you such as packing items into as many different modes of transport as possible to lower the load within the moving van, and this statement goes … Continue reading Why you Shouldn’t Pack Your Personal Items When Shipping Your Car Overseas
5 Basic Steps to Shipping Your Car
When shipping your car overseas you can become overburdened with many things to do to get ready for the shipment, but you can help solve this by just following 5 easy steps through the process of getting your car prepared for its overseas journey. 5 Basic Steps to Shipping Car in 2025 1. Make sure … Continue reading 5 Basic Steps to Shipping Your Car
Container Shipping & Its advantages
Container Shipping & Its Advantages A Complete Guide for 2026 When it comes to shipping a vehicle overseas, there is no shortage of opinions about which method is best. But for the vast majority of cars whether it is a daily driver heading to a new home abroad, a classic restoration project crossing the Atlantic, … Continue reading Container Shipping & Its advantages