Norway Removals

The inventory is the job

A packing list is not a customs inventory

On a domestic move the inventory is a convenience. On this route it is the document the whole consignment stands on, and it is where most of our work actually goes. A vague list is a slow clearance and an occasionally expensive one.

Six things a good one has

  1. 01

    Numbered, package by package

    Every carton and every item of furniture gets a number, and that number is what appears on the declaration. Without it nothing can be checked against anything.

  2. 02

    Described specifically

    "Box of kitchen" is a removals note. A customs entry wants to know what is actually in there, in terms somebody who has never seen your house can understand.

  3. 03

    Valued honestly

    Used household goods are valued as used household goods, not as replacement cost and not as nothing. Both of the wrong answers cause problems, and one of them causes serious ones.

  4. 04

    Separated by category

    Anything restricted is listed apart from the ordinary household effects, so it is visible rather than buried. Burying it is how a routine clearance becomes an inspection.

  5. 05

    Matched to the packing

    The load is packed so that a package can be opened, checked and closed again without the rest coming apart. If an inspection happens, this is the difference between a short interruption and a long one.

  6. 06

    Given to you, not kept from you

    You are the declarant, not us. You need the document, you need to be able to read it, and you need to be comfortable putting your name to it.

The part people get wrong

Value it as what it is

People go wrong in both directions. Valuing a used sofa at what a new one costs is wrong and unhelpful. Valuing everything at almost nothing is worse, because it looks like exactly what it looks like.

The honest answer — what these used items are genuinely worth, secondhand, today — is also the easy answer, and it is the one that causes no trouble at all.

The same principle runs through the rest of it. Specific beats vague, separate beats buried, and honest beats clever.

You are the declarant, not us

This is worth being clear about. We prepare the inventory and we pack to match it, but the declaration is made in your name and it is your signature on it. That means you need the full document, in a form you can read, before anything moves.

If there is something on it you do not recognise, or something missing that you know is in the load, resolve it before the consignment leaves rather than afterwards. Any remover reluctant to hand you the whole list is one to ask questions of.

And it is why the restricted conversation comes first

Anything restricted has to be identified before the list is written, not while it is being written and certainly not after. Burying a restricted item in a long inventory is not a neutral act and it is not treated as one.

We go through that with you at the survey. It is the single most useful hour on a Norway move.

What comes with every consignment

  • A customs-grade inventory

    Numbered, specific, honestly valued and separated by category — prepared to the standard a declaration needs rather than to removals-packing-list standard.

  • Export packing as standard

    Not an upgrade on this route. The load has to survive a long journey and possibly an inspection, and ordinary domestic packing does neither well.

  • The restricted-items conversation, early

    Before anything is packed, in writing. It is the single most useful hour on a Norway move and it is where problems get prevented.

  • Direct contact with your agent

    We deal with your customs agent or forwarder ourselves rather than relaying messages through you.

  • Collections from across the UK

    London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and elsewhere. A consolidated collection where your things are in more than one place.

  • Storage at either end

    Where your Norwegian address is not ready, or where you are leaving the UK before the load does. Sealed once and listed.

Sorted by category first

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Start with what you are sending

What is in the load, where in Norway it is going, and whether there is a vehicle. Those three decide almost everything, and the first two decide the paperwork.

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