There are lots of companies which do the shipping, but they mainly use the same ships I think! The two options are RoRo which is about £800 or thereabouts, or 20foot container which is more than double that. I'm not SO worried for the outward trip, because I would try to meet the boat to collect the car straight away, but shipping it back I would prefer to put the car in a container rather than leave it on the dock (I saw a truck lose it's transfer box from being left on a dockside for a few days once in West Africa!)
If the car is sent RoRo apparently 'no personal items' can be put in it - but if it's a camper as ours is, then what does this mean? That seems to be a bit of a variable!
Anyhow, if we can find someone who wants to share a container (two cars could go in a 40 footer) then great, otherwise, maybe I take off everything which can be unscrewed off the car & stash it inside and risk RoRo...
watch this space...
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