Looking for help with shipping to or from New Zealand?

 
Auckland, New Zealand - picture by Tim Sheerman-Chase 

 If you need help shipping a vehicle, personal effects or commercial freight to or from New Zealand you've certainly come to the right place.

Wavecrest Ltd has been shipping freight of all types between the UK and New Zealand since 1994.

Services provided include -

Regular full and part load container services to/from Auckland, Christchurch (Lyttelton), Port Chalmers, Wellington, Nelson etc.

Regular consolidation container service to/from Auckland. Containers are loaded/unpacked at our own warehouse in Gravesend, Kent.

Regular ro/ro departures from Southampton to Auckland and other New Zealand ports for cars, commercial vehicles, plant etc.

Shipping of classic cars and motorbikes

Shipping of caravans and motor homes

Regular air freight services to/from all major UK/NZ airports

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Here are just a few examples of some recent shipments we have undertaken...

Export packing and removal of furniture and antiques from Chelsea, London to three separate addresses in Auckland.

Five single deck buses from Southampton to Auckland and Nelson.

A decommissioned Sea Harrier from Yorkshire to Auckland - more about that on a future post!

Several vintage Ford Escort rally cars participating in the Silver Fern Rally shipped to Lyttelton and back.

A 1955 Austin Healey shipped from Lyttelton

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If you have a shipment you need to send to New Zealand or ship back to the UK and would like further information on our services please give Glen or Graham a call now on 01474 331146 or email glen@wavecrest.co.uk

Testimonial

We started our 21st year in business off today with a nice testimonial from one of our classic car shippers who recently imported this Triumph Mayflower on our service from New Zealand.

"The service from GT International Logistics in New Zealand together with Wavecrest in the UK at this end was impressive, the paperwork was easy to do and I would recommend them to all"

If you need advice on shipping a car anywhere in the world or freight to move to/from New Zealand, we would welcome your enquiries.

Please call Glen or Debbie on 01474 331146 for further assistance.

Kiwis on the Road to Hell

A couple of weeks ago we received a consignment of three motorbikes on behalf of our New Zealand agent.

We arranged Customs clearance at the port and uncrating at our warehouse in Gravesend and were surprised to find this monster lurking in one of the crates....

Is it a bike or a trike or even a car?

Well it is actually a Can-Am Spyder and belongs to a very pleasant Kiwi lady.

Nice artwork.

The other bikes a BMW (shown above) and a Suzuki were not quite so exotic. The lady and her two fellow companions are currently on a grand bike tour of Europe.

As you can see this is not the first time they have toured (or should that be invaded?) Europe. On the itinerary this time is Hell - apparently it's a town right in the north of Norway in the Arctic Circle.

Adventurous holidays seem to be popular in New Zealand.

Readers of this blog may recall an earlier post about a Kiwi couple who are driving their 1947 MG from the UK back to Auckland, New Zealand via Russia, Mongolia and all points in between.

You can read about it here.

The Wavecrest Weekly - Spotlight on New Zealand

We have recently handled a number of car shipments on our regular service from New Zealand to the UK. Here are a few pictures...

One of two Mercedes DTM cars shipped over for the owner to use during a holiday break in Europe.

For the same owner, two Rolls Royce convertibles.... At the other extreme two 1957 VW Kombi vans in need of a great deal of TLC!

Finally a 1947 MG TC. The owners, together with another couple based in the UK who own a similar MG TC,  will be driving it back to New Zealand via Russia, Mongolia, China and Singapore.

They expect the trip to take around four months (excluding the final sea voyage from Singapore back to New Zealand). This adventure made it into the national press here in the UK and has also been featured on television news programmes in New Zealand.

You can follow their journey at this link and if you need any advice about importing a car from New Zealand, please contact us on Tel: 01474 331146 or e-mail glen@wavecrest.co.uk