Personal goods

From a birthday gift to shipping your entire household effects.

Are you moving to Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao or St. Maarten or one of our other destinations? Even then, IFC is the expert for you! Our private services range from shipping the birthday gift for your grandson to Aruba, to the complete relocation of your household effects in your own container.

Our services for transporting your property to our destinations may include:

• Full-service move: an FAIM/ISO-certified moving team comes to your home to pack and unpack everything.
  You can sit back and relax while the movers load the sofa.
• Do-it-yourself service: you pack your goods and disassemble your furniture yourself. This way, you can save considerably on costs.
• Collection of your household goods and loading them into the container.
• Advice on insurance, import duties, VAT and other matters to consider.

And all combinations in between.

Below we inform you in advance about general points of interest that will come into consideration when you move. And of course you can contact us for further specific information.

Moving service

If you choose to use our full moving service, we will start by arranging for a mover carefully selected by us to visit you. This experienced adviser will survey your household goods and inform you about the next steps. Based on the volume assessed by our adviser, we will send you a quote. If you accept the quote, we can make further arrangements: the moving crew will be assigned, the container will be booked and positioned at the agreed location on the agreed day, and your shipment will be dispatched at the agreed time.

At the destination, our local agent will receive the shipment, clear it through customs and take care of the rest. If you wish, they can deliver your household goods to your home, unpack them, remove the packing materials and reassemble your furniture.

With a full-service move, we take care of everything for you.

Do-it-yourself

If you choose to pack your goods yourself and disassemble your furniture, etc., you can save considerably on costs. Even then, IFC remains the expert and reliable partner for you, who will ship your household effects to, for example, Aruba, Bonaire or Curaçao. Based on the volume, we discuss the cheapest and most practical options for you. This may mean that you deliver your goods packaged to us yourself, or that we come to collect them as soon as you have packed them ready.

We will help you on your way with our handy packing tips. When packing, you will have to keep a packing list. We will continue to use these for the customs work that we must perform.

Reclaiming VAT

If you ship newly purchased goods to Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, St. Maarten or Suriname, you ship to areas outside the EU (despite the BES status of Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius). Therefore you do not have to pay VAT. In this document you can read how you can reclaim your VAT paid from the tax authorities.