International Boat Shipping Services

What’s Involved In Boat Shipping?

Whether your boat is a 60' cruiser, or a 26' trailer boat, will greatly influence the complexity of the shipping process. Yacht transport is a very specialised field and it’s important to talk to experienced boat shipping professionals like us so we can advise you on best practices and pitfalls.

We take care of all the red tape like Customs, Quarantine and port formalities, including arranging boat lifts in or out of the water at port, pier or anywhere else.

However there are certainly some common procedures in boat shipping and yacht transport.

• Consider the dimensions of your boat, can anything be removed to make it smaller? Can the bowsprit, keel, flybridge and radar arches be removed? Many items can be removed with a few hours labour and can considerably lower the freight cost.
• If your boat is not on a trailer it will need a cradle. We have fully adjustable steel cradles in a number of locations around the world that we can rent to you, if necessary we can build a custom cradle for your boat.
• If possible it’s best to avoid water lifts at the port because they’re very expensive. If your boat can be made low enough for the road, it’s better to lift out at a close marina and then we an truck it to port. This is not always possible depending on the size of the boat you have.
• A water discharge is dependent on a number of factors so please talk through this with us, as it’s not always possible. For example, if the ship arrives at night, quarantine will not give clearance because the light is not good enough for them to inspect the boat.