Thread: Shipping wood products overseas?

I think you will find it depends on the destianation. Wood coming to Australia generally has to be fumigated, even if its only the pallets inside a container.
I would imaging some countries are harder than others and Australia would probably be among the hardest.
Have you spoke to a freight forwarder?

Originally Posted by ClintO

I think you will find it depends on the destianation. Wood coming to Australia generally has to be fumigated, even if its only the pallets inside a container.
I would imaging some countries are harder than others and Australia would probably be among the hardest.
Have you spoke to a freight forwarder?

I was hoping that small craft wooden items that have already been made for mass-consumption wouldn't be a problem, as I'd imagine they would have already been fumigated prior to entry into Australia in the first place.

What exactly is a freight forwarder? I am not looking to send out huge quantities at a time, these are just small artworks I make that utilize the wooden frame for a bit of structure.

Thank you *so* much for your help

Just go ahead and send them. There are no quarantine inspections going out of australia and only Canada and NZ even look at wood that is shipped from australia and they nearly always let manufactured products through. What they are trying to stop is someone picking up a wormy old stick in the bush and taking it home as a souvenir and maybe introducing some new bug to their forest industry. We've sent and taken australian wood products to USA, Canada. UK, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and New Zealand and about a dozen other places. New Zealand was the only place that even looked at what we had.

I have tried to send Paulownia to a few countries without success. Recently Ii sent some to Singapore by post. The local post office consulted a manual and declared that it was OK to accept a parcel containing timber going to Singapore. For larger quantities there are more problems than you could believe and I have given up.

Whitewood

I have sent several wooden mirror frames overseas without issue.

This bit of info may help you, ( with a bit of luck ),- Google, - International Freight--forwarding Companies/Australia. One of the major Companies is, Stockwell International who have an extensive Import - Export Information Book available online,- and yes it is downloadable,- there's about Two Dozen pages to read. I got a copy just in case someone asked me about exporting my Toy Plans offshore,- fortunately Toy Plans being on paper, and in a standard size large envelope are passed OK for export to individual buyers, although I have received enquiries from Chinese buyers,- but they don't get as they cry, "poverty," and want everything for almost nothing,- so that's what they get," Nothing. "
Roger

Roger
Thanks for the information. Unfortunately I'm not smart enough to find it on the Stockwell International web site. I did look at the useful tools but as none was called an information booklet I didn't open any of them. Can you steer me in the right direction as I would really like to know more about the world of exporting parcels of timber.

Whitewood

Whitewood, Yep had the same problem so I clicked on, " Contact. " and emailed them direct,- Also got several phone numbers which may also help,-

Email I got back was from;- [email protected] -

A real live Helpful person for once. ( couldn't believe it !!! )

Contact name; Angela Gambell, National Sales & Marketing Manager
Stockwell International Pty Ltd.
Mob; 0417 451 763
Head Office; 3860 4750
1799 Botany Rd,
Botany, NSW 2019

There is an office in every Aust. Capital City,- The above address being the most helpful.

Don't be put off by the info booklet title;- New Importers Information Session.
The same Informational also applies to Exporters,- I asked.
Why have two booklets with identical info ? -- That's what they said !!

Roger

Originally Posted by rogerjenkins

Whitewood, Yep had the same problem so I clicked on, " Contact. " and emailed them direct,- Also got several phone numbers which may also help,-

Email I got back was from;- [email protected] -

A real live Helpful person for once. ( couldn't believe it !!! )

Contact name; Angela Gambell, National Sales & Marketing Manager
Stockwell International Pty Ltd.
Mob; 0417 451 763
Head Office; 3860 4750
1799 Botany Rd,
Botany, NSW 2019

There is an office in every Aust. Capital City,- The above address being the most helpful.

Don't be put off by the info booklet title;- New Importers Information Session.
The same Informational also applies to Exporters,- I asked.
Why have two booklets with identical info ? -- That's what they said !!

Roger

Thanks for that Roger. I will contact them next week as that information will be very useful to me.

John