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Moving Overseas For Work Smarter the Second Time

One of the opportunities that working for a multi-national company gives you is to travel overseas. Not only do you meet new people and experience different cultures, but often it is an insight into how companies operate in other countries. Few people however are asked to pack up their lives and move overseas for a period of time to work. In our case we had 2 moves, both to Asia. The first when we had two small children was to Bangkok and the second some years later was to Kuala Lumpur. We were quite naive the first time, but much smarter the next.

On both occasions we engaged removalists in Sydney, however on the first move we were a little naive as to what was the best process to follow. My company too had not moved families before and left all the logistics up to me. I was tasked with doing my own research, obtaining quotes and providing them to our human resources department. In reflection the decision was priced based.

What we didnt know was that the company we engaged, although they said they had experience in moving people overseas were not represented by an office in Thailand. Our shipment was handed to a third party company. The difficulty was that we had no relationship with the other company and issues that we found in clearing our shipment from customs took longer than we were led to believe. The company that we engaged originally then had nothing to do with the logistics in Bangkok. This in turn cost more for us to live in a hotel as well as be a very cramped living situation for a family of four.

Moving all our belongings was not as easy as we thought. Having quite a lot of furniture, some quite expensive, we decided that we should not transport this. Having this furniture in a boat for 6 weeks, sitting on a dock for a time and also being in a country where the weather conditions were so much different were risks we were not prepared to take. We then had to look for storage facilities in Sydney that would cater for our needs. This meant having very secure premises, but also one that was able to provide an environment that would be free of bugs and climate controlled. It turned out that it was a great decision to leave some of our belongings as we learnt from others that they did have environmental damage to their goods while living in Bangkok.

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Our second move to back to Asia was a little easier as we had the experience from years earlier. Not only did we find removalists with an office in Sydney and in Kuala Lumpur that looked after us throughout the entire process, but they also provided the storage facilities we needed for our belongings. This meant that we could negotiate a very good deal that included the packing, shipment, unpacking and storage solutions in Sydney as well as insurances for everything. For us it meant that dealing with a single company gave us a sense of security that everything was being well looked after.

Geoff Cooper has undertaken a number of corporate assignments in Asia. Living in Sydney he has found that the stress of the move is made much easier by selecting Sydney removalists that specialise in corporate relocations for moving people overseas.