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Rates for Service by Air
Air Rates
Commodity:personal effects / household goods (international moving from Japan)
As of September, 2021
| U.S.A. | Los Angeles, San Francisco | 1,100 yen/kg |
| Other cities | 1,200 to 1,900 yen/kg | |
| Canada | Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal | 1,200 yen/kg |
| Australia | 1,100 yen/kg | |
| New Zealand | 1,900 yen/kg | |
| Europe A | 1,200 yen/kg | |
| Europe B | 1,600 yen/kg | |
| Europe C |
1,800 yen/kg
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| Asia A | 950 yen/kg | |
| Asia B | 1,050 yen/kg | |
- For a small shipment, service by air is less expensive than service by sea.
- The minimum weight is 45 kg. Shipments under this weight are shipped as 45 kg.
- Services are available to most major international airports around the world, however, depending on the destination, a higher rate may be applied. Also, since vast majority of airlines would not accept personal effects shipments for security reasons, services many not be available for destinations that are not served by many international carriers.
- These tariffs only cover delivery to destination terminals. Destination charges such as terminal service, airline handling fees, customs clearance and delivery charges at the destination or the alike are not included.
- Door-to-door service is available to the following countries at additional charge.: UK, Australia, New Zealand
All charges are subject to change without prior notice.
- The above rates may not be applicable to shipments to certain destinations.
- Fuel and security surcharge may be applied.
- Higher rates will be applied for shipments which seem to be time-consuming or for shipments containing certain commodities. JLE reserves rights to decide what rate to offer to each shipment considering various factors.
JLE Handling Charge
Customs Clearance Charge: 5,900 yen per consignment.
Pickup Charge
50 to 300 yen per kg depending on the area (normal access)
There will be surcharge for hard access.
Rate Example
50 kg to Los Angeles : 1100 yen x 50 kg + 5,900 yen = 60,900 yen
Storage
100 yen/kg per week (if reservation is made in advance)
Insurance
It is highly recommended to have you shipment insured although it is not mandatory. Air and marine insurance against all risks can be purchased through our company. The premium depends on the declared value.
| Europe A | London, Paris |
| Europe B | Madrid, Barcelona, Hamburg, Budapest, Bucharest, Helsinki, Stockholm, Brussels, Munich, Frankfurt, Rome, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Zurich, Oslo |
| Europe C | Manchester, Birmingham, Dublin, Shannon, Glasgow, Belfast, Lyon, Toulouse, Nantes, Hanover, Basel, Stuttgart, Berlin, Milan, Prague, etc |
| Asia A | Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei |
| Asia B | Pusan, Bangkok, Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila |
About volumetric weight
In accordance with IATA (International Air Transport Association) volumetric standards, volumetric weight
will apply if a shipment is below a certain weight density. The chargeable weight of airfreight is the
higher of the actual gross weight or the volumetric weight. Volumetric weight: Height (cm) x Length (cm) x
Depth (cm) 6,000. For example, the volumetric weight of a box of 40 x 60 x 50 cm will be 20. If the gross
weight of this box is 25 kg, the chargeable weight is 25 kg (25 is larger than 20), however if the weight of
this box is only 1 kg, then the chargeable weight will be 20 kg (20 is larger than 1). Volumetric weight is
likely to apply when shipping objects low in weight density such as duvets, acoustic guitars or bicycles.
・Restricted Goods:List of little-known dangerous goods in personal effects
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Rates for Service by Sea
Please contact this office for a quotation.
Rates are available from the minimum volume of one cubic meter.
How the charges for international move from Japan will be calculated.
You will be charged based on the space occupied by your shipment in the container.The volume will be used in
calculating ocean freight charges and the cubic meter is the unit of volume. One cubic meter equals 35.3
cubic feet. The minimum volume for all international ocean carriers is one cubic meter and if the total
volume of a consignment is less than one cubic meter, then the chargeable volume is one cubic meter.
Weight of cargo is not a pricing factor in international SEA shipping with the exception of extremely
heavy cargo.
Pricing System
Some of charges related to ocean shipping are on a per shipment basis, (a shipment refers to all the boxes
shipped together at the same time.) while the sea freight charge itself is calculated by the volume. By this
we mean some of the charges comprising the charges are the same regardless of the volume. For example,
customs clearance charge is the same whether you are shipping one cubic meter or shipping 20 cubic meters.
Therefore, the charges for each additional cubic meter will be less expensive than first cubic meter. By
this we mean the charge will not be doubled when shipping two cubic meters than when shipping one cubic
meter. Thus, the charges are more reasonable when you ship a large amount.
This is one of the reasons why people choose international shipping companies for moving from Japan especially when they are shipping a number of packages whose volume are close to or over 1 cubic meter while it is less expensive by Japan Post if shipping only one or two packages. If you get confused, do not worry! We will send you a quote which is self-explanatory and very easy to understand.
Frequency of ships departure
Weekly service is available from Japan to most destinations around the world. (To some destinations, the
service is available biweekly or semiweekly.)
Service to inland cities
Services by sea are available to inland cities in the USA, Canada and some countries in Europe. For such
destinations, shipments are transported to the port first such as Vancouver, Los Angeles, Le Havre (France),
Rotterdam and they will be transported by rail or truck to the terminals in the final destination cities.
Such service is called *Multimodal Transport*.
Door-to-port service is highly recommended as this will be far less expensive than door-to-door.
・We do not handle car shipments.
・Services not available to African countries except South Africa.
・Door-to-door service is available to the following countries at additional charge.
・UK ・Australia ・New Zealand
・USA(except some area) ・Hong Kong
Insurance
It is
recommended to have your shipment insured although it is not mandatory. Air and marine insurance against
all risks can be purchased through our company. The premium depends on the declared value.
･Port of departure: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Fukuoka, Moji.
･Depending on the destination, service may be available from Tokyo/Yokohama only.
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