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Moving Abroad To Germany

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Things to consider when moving abroad to Germany

Let Abels Moving Services provide you with a premium removal quotation for your move abroad to Germany. We want to ensure that your move is stress-free, ensuring all your belongings are relocated safely and efficiently.

Many people consider moving to Germany as part of a job move or as a move home to their parent country. With a population of around 82.1 million people, this makes the population density in Germany, very similar to the UK.

Germany is a European county covering an area of 137,849 square miles. It is located in mid Europe with borders to Denmark in the North, with Poland and the Czech Republic in the East, and Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland to its south, and Luxemburg, Belgium and the Netherlands in the west.

Berlin is the capital city with a population of 3.5 million people in the Berlin city area it is a popular destination when moving to Germany. Other large cities to be found in Germany include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Bremen where the majority of people moving to Germany normally relocate. Germany is subdivided into sixteen states these being Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.

Packing for your international move is extremely important, ensuring that all goods are packed to a high standard to meet exporting regulations for Germany.


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Planning Your Move To Germany

When planning your move to Germany, we advise that you speak to a specialist international removal company – not your local domestic mover! – to help navigate any potential pitfalls.

To speak with an advisor, call or email today and our expert staff will be in contact with you shortly to help.

When contacting our team directly, you will be given the resources to make a formal enquiry with a precise overview of the regulations we undertake to make sure your moving process to Germany is smooth sailing. This includes an overview of the approach we will take to complete a thorough, premium, end-to-end moving service.

When enquiring about moving from the UK to Germany, please provide us with the following: the volume, access, packing requirements and shipping method – so that we can provide the best reliable resources unique to your relocation.

After you book with Abels, you will be introduced to a Customer Liaison Move Coordinator, booking, organizing and managing matters when moving to Germany

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Packing Your Possessions For Germany

Abels Moving Services advises that Packing is a recommendation for all your items and possessions when you move to Germany. Furniture will be wrapped and protected by woollen blankets when items are moved to Germany.

As your movers, we will strive to provide you with a comprehensive plan for exporting your goods to your property in Germany. Typically, this will be completed by large removal vehicles. However, specialist vehicles and modes of transport can play a pivotal role in your international move. Ahead of your move, we will present you with the plan of action to ensure you are happy with the route and set expectations.

There may be occasions when items can require more extensive packing service for more valuable and delicate items. These items will be identified when discussing with your Customer Service Manager. Export wrapping with robust 8-ply paper blankets, potentially adding foam edging, card covering and crating services are available depending on the item to be transported to ensure it will be best protected.

With Abels Moving Services the highest quality export materials are utilized. Our expert packing guidance provides a plethora of information which will offer resources to ensure your belongings are correctly preserved during your move abroad.

With Abels Moving Services the highest quality packing materials are utilized. If you wish to pack items yourself for your move Our removal teams are always happy to make up some cartons for you on the day of the move so that you can pack personal clothing or documents. However, please be assured that our packing teams are trained and employed for their professionalism, so your items will be in the best condition when they arrive with you in Germany.


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Fine Art & Specialist Packing Services

Moving Fine Art needs great care and will involve Enhanced Export Packing when shipping to Germany. Items such as Fine Art Paintings and valuable pieces of furniture along with delicate items such as moving a Grand Father Clock, packing and shipping Barometers, transporting chandeliers all need careful handling while being packed in a specific way. The use of special cases built especially for these items needs to be utilized to give the highest level of protection. Find out more information about Moving Antiques, Fine Art, and Valuables.

The Abels team is specially trained in moving objects abroad, taking care and precision when handling specialist goods. With years of expertise, we have a plethora of Moving Advice to relieve stress and provide reassurance.


Road Removal Services For Moving Abroad

Abels has a modern fleet of removal vehicles which are designed to be safe to transport items such as furniture, personal possessions and motor vehicles. Each vehicle is fully alarmed, with flat cleanable internal sides double skinned to avoid furniture damage and restrict temperature changes. The vehicles have Air-Ride soft suspension to ensure items are not jostled in transit, while being sympathetic to the environment. Each is fitted with mobile communications and facilities for our drivers and porters comfort.

Abels maintains a variety of sized vehicles within our removal fleet to suit the purposes of the moves we undertake depending on access challenges, volumes to be moved and distance to travel. Vehicles range from our road trains (which have a rigid truck at the front pulling a similar sized trailer) and can carry up to a maximum volume capacity of 103 cubic metres / 3600 cubic feet, articulated truck and trailers, a variety of sized rigid pantechnicons, right through to small packing vehicles designed mainly for transporting our removal team and their materials.

Therefore Abels are ideally suited and can provide efficient moving services into all parts of Europe.


Customs Information

Since the UK left the EU we no longer have ‘free movement of goods’ between the UK and Germany. This means the import of your household goods (furniture and personal effects) are subject to import and export rules and procedures. 

Your Abels Move Manager will provide you with tailored information to guide you through this part of the relocation process.

For now, here is a little breakdown of what to expect to help you start planning your move abroad.  

For your items to clear customs, you will need to provide some specific documentation. Our friendly team will discuss these requirements with you ahead of your move, the documents required at customs will depend on your status and personal situation. 

Explore the FIDI Customs Guide for Germany, for further guidance ahead of your move consultation with a trusted member of the Abels team.

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Enjoy a stress-free move abroad to Germany

Get in touch with our removal experts to see how we can help with your move today.

Destination Services For Your International Move

With items moved by Abels Moving Services to Germany, Abels will take care of all aspects of the destination services with our own removal teams on our vehicles.

For the majority of deliveries we use one of our large removal vehicles. In situations were it is necessary to deliver items in Germany by using a smaller delivery vehicle, Abels will make arrangements to transport the items by road in a normal removal delivery vehicle and then tranship to a smaller appropriate vehicle locally in Germany.

Another consideration for delivery is the number of properties located on higher floors needing careful planning for delivery of your items. This can often be in conjunction with the concierge who will confirm the access possibility to the elevator and times approved for access. Some properties may only permit delivery utilising an external elevator.

An Advance Payment Guarantee Scheme operated by the British Association of Removers provides protection for prepayments made by our private customers (consumers) in the unlikely circumstance of Abels ceasing to trade and fulfilling a contract which has been paid for. This used to be provided by IMMI.

Normal service for delivery into Italy includes delivery into rooms of your choosing, unpacking of carton items to a flat surface, set up of normal furniture removal and placement into positions as instructed, disposal of waste packaging materials. Should you prefer, arrangements can be made for a put away service of carton items / maid cleaning / relocation or settling in services – should you have specific requirements, please discuss with your Abels Customer Service Manager or Abels Customer Liaison.

Abels professional experience and local knowledge helps you by handling and advising of all aspects associated with the delivery of your possessions for you when moving to Germany. Abels Moving Services endeavours to ensure your arrival at your new home overseas is smooth and trouble-free, to allow you to settle in as swiftly as possible.

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Abels professional experience and local knowledge helps you by handling and advising of all aspects associated with the delivery of your possessions for you when moving to Germany. Abels Moving Services endeavours to ensure your arrival at your new home overseas is smooth and trouble-free, to allow you to settle in as swiftly as possible.

At Abels, we have a dedicated team that will ensure your move abroad is stress-free! Make An Enquiry today regarding your move to Germany.

Abels Moving Services:
Telephone: 01842 816600
Email: shipping@abels.co.uk