Reinforced storage crates in Southeast Asia: sealed once, held anywhere, sent on unopened
The one way of storing that makes a regional company worth using. Asia Relocation packs and seals the crate in the country you are in, holds it while the decision is made, and sends it to Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam or out of Asia without anyone handling the goods twice.
Most storage answers the question where. A reinforced crate answers the one we hear most at the regional level: we do not know yet. A posting that may be renewed or transferred, a family going home for a year with a return written in, a company moving between two countries on a date not yet fixed. In all of these, goods packed today will be delivered somewhere undecided, and every ordinary way of storing them means packing them twice.
A crate built by Asia Relocation is packed once. Our crew wraps each item, lists it, builds the crate to the load, seals it and holds it in our own warehouse in Thailand, the Philippines or Vietnam. When the decision comes, the crate is lifted onto a truck or a vessel as it was sealed and delivered in the country that won, or shipped out of Southeast Asia, the inventory of sealing day still the only document needed.
Asia Relocation has built crates for expatriate households in the region since 2011; the crew that packs a home is the crew that seals its crate. This page compares where crates are built and held in each country; each country page says the rest.
Built, sealed and held in every country, and what another service carries
Three ways to store with us across Asia; here, nobody touches the goods.
Carried by the service
- Collection and packing at your address, by our own crew in each country, each item wrapped as it requires.
- Crates built to the load: timber, reinforced corners and braces, steel in the Philippines, lockable, resistant to moisture and pests.
- Sealing and one inventory, written as the goods go in, in your hands from that day.
- A hold in our own warehouse in Thailand, the Philippines or Vietnam: cameras, alarms, pest control, dry ground.
- A crate that leaves as it is: onto a truck or a vessel unopened, for delivery in the same country, another of the three, or beyond Asia.
Crate count and figure are confirmed in writing after the survey, per country.
A different service
- The crossing itself. When the crate leaves the country it becomes a moving file of its own, quoted for its destination.
- Goods you want to reach yourself. A sealed crate is not for weekly visits: that is self storage, with your own access.
- A climate, not a case. Instruments, art, wine and electronics held loose in a conditioned room are air-conditioned storage.
- Cover. Quoted separately on the declared value, for the hold and for the crossing.
All of these run on one file with one coordinator. Say so in the inquiry.
Four loads that end up sealed somewhere in the region
The crate is the same in all three countries; the question it answers is not.
A household between two of our countries
The posting ends in one, the next has not started in another. Crated at the departure end, delivered at the arrival end, packed once.
A home going back for a year, and returning
A family home for a school year, the furniture worth keeping but not worth a container each way. Sealed, held, delivered to the next address in Asia.
A company with a date not yet fixed
Equipment and archives cased before the board decides which country. One inventory, whichever warehouse holds the crates.
Leaving Asia, and not sure
A departure that may become a return. The crates wait in the country being left; delivered if the return happens, shipped still sealed if not.
Five steps from the survey to a crate delivered in the country that won
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The survey, and the countries in play
What is going in, what may be wanted mid-hold, where the goods might end up. We say in which city of your country the crates are built, and whether at your address.
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The quotation
Crate count, term, collection and packing, written per country. The crossing is quoted when its destination is known.
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Packing, crating and sealing
Our crew wraps and lists each item, builds the crate to the load and seals it. The inventory is yours from that day, in any of the three countries.
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The hold
In an Asia Relocation warehouse, under cameras, alarms and pest control, while the address is decided.
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Release, wherever that turns out to be
Delivered in the same country, sent to another of the three, or shipped out of Asia, the crate leaving as it was sealed, the same coordinator holding the file.
Four clients who choose the seal because the map is not fixed
Each ends up on a country page; the crate lets them wait to choose it.
Expatriates who may leave again
A posting that could be renewed, transferred or ended. Crated once, the household follows whichever happens.
HR teams moving people between the three
Transfers inside Southeast Asia where the departure sets the earliest arrival date. Something has to wait somewhere; a sealed crate waits best.
Families protecting what matters
The pieces that must arrive as they left, whatever the country: cased by the crew that packed them, opened by nobody between.
Embassies and international organisations
Accountable goods on a rotation calendar, one inventory format across the three countries, a seal that says who opened what.
Where crates are built and held in each country, and where they are not
The comparison no country page can make, with the door to each.
In Thailand, crates are held in the capital, on ground that stays dry in the rainy season, and built on site in four other cities by the crew that packs the household, then brought in sealed; the timber is treated to the export standard. In the Philippines, two warehouse cities build crates with steel corners and braces and the third does not; the capital is the country's point of entry and departure, so a crate waiting there has not travelled the wrong way.
In Vietnam, crates are custom-built and sealed against humidity, pests and shocks where our offices are, and the difficult part is often the door of the building, not the warehouse. What the three share is Asia Relocation's own crews and one inventory format; what differs is where the crate is built.
What clients ask before sealing a crate in Asia
When is a crate the right choice rather than a unit or a conditioned space?
Is the crate really not opened between countries?
Are crates built in every city you operate in?
What is the crate made of?
Can we take one thing out during the hold?
Does the climate matter inside a sealed crate?
Who holds the crate while a country is being decided?
How are reinforced crates priced across the region?
The storage that holds a climate, and the whole offer
What you are storing would not survive the air
Temperature and humidity held steady, an inventory item by item, releases one at a time.
Air-conditioned storage in Southeast Asia →The whole storage service
Crates, conditioned storage and units across Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, and which your situation needs.
Storage in Southeast Asia →Tell us what is going in; where it ends up can wait
Asia Relocation packs, seals and holds the crate where you are, and delivers it where you choose, or ships it out, unopened.
Tell us what is going in →