International Move · Southeast Asia

International movers to and from Southeast Asia

Three countries where the crews, the warehouses and the export desk are ours, one method whatever the direction. Asia Relocation surveys the home, packs it, clears it out, and follows it to the door at the other end, wherever that is.

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In the region since 2011 Own teams in three countries Both directions, in and out
3countries with our own crews
2011in the region since
1coordinator, survey to final delivery
118client reviews across the company

An international move is decided at the origin end: that is where the volume is measured, the packing standard set, the export file lodged and the container sealed. Everything that goes wrong later, a hold at a port, a missing item, a date that slips, was usually decided badly on the first day.

Which is why we sell the origin end and are plain about the rest. In Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam the crews, the warehouses and the customs desk are ours. Beyond Asia, a chosen partner works from our inventory and reports to the coordinator you already have.

Asia Relocation has worked in Southeast Asia since 2011. The direction of travel does not change the method, but it does change who cares: arriving households are well served online, and households leaving the region are barely served at all.

The perimeter

What crosses the border with us, and what does not

The second column is not small print: most disputes in this trade are about something assumed to be in the price.

Carried by the service

  • A pre-move survey at the origin address, on site or by video, and the volume in cubic metres everything else rests on.
  • Export-grade packing and crating for a sea or air leg, with a signed inventory both customs files will use.
  • The export file in Thailand, the Philippines or Vietnam, whichever you are leaving, lodged before the container is booked.
  • Freight, sea or air, dedicated or shared, against a sailing that fits your date, not the other way round.
  • Delivery at destination: clearance, delivery, unpacking, and the packing debris taken away.

Every line is written into the quotation, with its limits.

A different service

All of these can run on the same file and the same dates. Say so in the inquiry.

Directions

Four directions, and one of them is barely served

The method does not change; what changes is who has already thought about your case.

Into the region

The best-served direction, the one every mover advertises. What decides it is the arrival end: import clearance, and a delivery scheduled against a lease and a building rather than the day the vessel docks.

Arriving

Out of the region

Households going home, on to a posting elsewhere, or leaving for good. Here the origin end is everything: the export file, the inventory, and a destination whose rules are read before the container is booked, not discovered at arrival.

Leaving

Between Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam

A border is crossed, so it is an international move, but both ends are ours. One company surveys, packs, clears out and clears back in, with one inventory no stranger has to re-create.

Regional transfer

Air freight, when the date will not wait

Small volume, short notice: professional equipment, documents, the boxes needed in week one. Usually paired with a sea shipment, so a household is functional long before its container lands.

Urgent

Regional corporate and institutional accounts

Companies, embassies and NGOs with people in more than one of our countries. One agreement, named approvers, one billing trail, the same reporting whichever country an employee leaves from.

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How it works

One method, whichever way you are going

  1. Tell us the direction

    Into Southeast Asia, out of it, or between two of our countries. It decides which office runs the file and how much of the work stays in-house rather than passing to a partner.

  2. Survey at the origin address

    On site or by video. What a truck can reach, what a lift will take and what a building allows on a given day set the crew and the date as firmly as the number of rooms.

  3. One scope, one price, in writing

    Packing, crating, mode, arrival handling and exclusions in a single document: the thing to argue with before anything is booked, and the only place a surprise can be prevented.

  4. Packing, documents and departure

    Our crews pack, label and list; the export file goes in before the container is booked. The inventory produced on packing day is the document both customs authorities will read.

  5. Transit, clearance and delivery

    Clearance at the destination, delivery, unpacking, debris removed. If the home is not ready, the shipment waits in a warehouse, and the same coordinator tells you where it is.

Who it's for

Four situations that cross a border

Four situations that cross a border, and one Asia Relocation coordinator at the origin end of each.

Households arriving in the region

The shipment has to meet a lease that may not have started. Timing the delivery, not the sailing, is the work, done by a team already in the destination country.

Expatriates leaving Southeast Asia

Going home or on to the next posting, often with more volume than expected and a last month already full. The survey is when you decide what crosses the water.

Families of the region emigrating

Thai, Filipino and Vietnamese households leaving for work, study or family abroad. Identical formalities, and the direction the industry advertises least; this page is written for you.

Companies with people in several countries

Mobility teams that would rather hold one agreement and one contact than three, with the same reporting whichever country an employee leaves from.

Coverage

Three countries of our own, and the door out of Asia

Where the origin end belongs to us, and where it does not, said plainly.

Leaving from Thailand, the Philippines or Vietnam, the survey, the packing, the crating and the export file are done by Asia Relocation's own crews; each of those three pages says what its market does differently, from a city of towers to an archipelago to a country whose ports sit far from its assignments.

Beyond Southeast Asia we do not pretend to have offices we do not have: a partner is appointed, briefed, and works from our inventory. What may enter, what must be listed and what will be inspected is decided by the destination country; our country guides cover the rules we are asked about most.

FAQ

Questions that come before a direction is chosen

Which of your offices handles my move?
The one at the origin end, because that is where the work is decided: the survey, the packing, the export file and the loading. We have our own teams in Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam; at the far end, a partner we have chosen works from our inventory and reports to the same coordinator.
We are moving from one of your countries to another. Who does what?
Both ends are ours, and it is the case where this matters most. One company surveys, packs, clears the goods out and clears them back in, with a single inventory never re-created by a stranger. It is the shortest international move we can offer.
Does my shipment travel in its own container or a shared one?
The volume decides, not the destination. A full household normally justifies a container of its own. A partial one shares space, costs less, and leaves on a consolidation schedule rather than on your calendar. The survey tells us which one your inventory falls into.
When is air freight worth it?
When the date will not wait and the volume is small: professional equipment, documents, the boxes a household needs in its first week. It is often combined with a sea shipment rather than chosen instead of one, so life restarts before the container arrives.
We are not expatriates. We are leaving the region for good. Is this the right page?
It is. A family leaving Southeast Asia for work, study or to join relatives goes through the same export formalities and destination requirements as any arriving expatriate. This direction is the one served worst online, and we built this page around it.
Do you also find us a home and settle us in?
Not on this service. An international move is logistics, compliance and cargo safety from one door to another. Housing and the first weeks belong to our relocation services, a different team and quotation. Many clients take both, on the same dates.
Can the car and the animals travel with the household goods?
No. A vehicle runs on its own customs file, and an animal depends on health documents and a flight booking rather than a container. Each has its own service here, both planned on the same file and dates as the shipment.
How is the price of an international move decided?
By the volume in cubic metres, sea or air, the rules of the destination country, any crating, the access at both addresses, and the level of insurance you choose. Underestimating volume is what produces a surprise later; the survey comes before the figure.
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Moving inside one country, between its cities or islands. No customs file, a different plan.

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Tell us which way you are going, and from which address

Asia Relocation surveys the home, fixes the volume, and comes back with a written scope: mode, sailing, documents, and what happens at the far end, whether that end is in Asia or outside it.

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