What an international move actually costs
Every mover quotes after a survey, so the honest answer is a range, and most online estimators hide that behind one confident number. This one shows the range, the cost lines behind it, and the customs rule that decides whether you pay duty at the other end.
Your move
Only corridors with verified pricing are listed.
Replacement value of everything shipped. Enter zero to price the move without cover.
Verified 2026-08-27published mover price ladders and customs authorities
Estimate
Each band is the midpoint of that line's range; the totals above carry the full range.
| Cost line | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Transport, loading and delivery24 m3 at EUR 100 to 235 per m3, road groupage (door to door). Minimum charge EUR 1000. | EUR 2,400 | EUR 5,640 |
| Professional packing and materialsMovers price a full pack as an uplift on the move itself, typically 15 to 30 percent. | EUR 360 | EUR 1,692 |
| Transit insurance0.6 to 4 percent of declared replacement value. The low end applies to total loss cover only; all risks cover sits at the top. | EUR 90 | EUR 600 |
| Customs clearance and documentationBrokerage and paperwork on the Germany side. Duty itself is usually zero on used household goods when the relief conditions below are met. | EUR 80 | EUR 250 |
Partner link · how this is funded
Cover for the gap, not for the boxes. The insurance line above covers your belongings in transit, not you. Moving means a gap between leaving one health system and joining the next, and that gap is the expensive part if anything goes wrong in it.
See SafetyWing coverPartner link · how this is funded
Cheaper per day, wrong shape for a move. EKTA sells trip insurance from about a dollar a day, which looks like the better buy until you read what it covers: only time spent outside your country of permanent residence. The day your destination becomes where you live, the policy has nothing to pay on. It fits a defined round trip with a return ticket, or proof of insurance for a visa application, rather than the move itself. Both links pay us, on different terms: a quarter of this policy's price once, and a tenth of the policy above for as long as it runs.
See EKTA coverMethodology and sources
Transport is the shipment volume multiplied by a per cubic metre band derived from published mover price ladders on each corridor, floored at the minimum charge below which movers will not run the job. Packing is an uplift on the transport line, insurance a percentage of declared value, storage a rate per cubic metre per month, and customs clearance a flat brokerage band. Peak season and flexible dates apply to the whole estimate.
Home size bands span British and Turkish conventions rather than averaging them: movers in the two countries size the same flat differently, and pretending otherwise would make the estimate look precise while being wrong. Two earlier drafts of this dataset were rejected in verification for citations that did not hold up on the pages they named; only figures confirmed on their source page are published here.
Where a mover publishes a price ladder by home size rather than a rate per cubic metre, the band here is derived from that ladder: the lowest published price against its largest volume, up to the highest price against its smallest. That is why the bands are wide. Where two sources disagreed, the band was widened rather than averaged.
Prices quoted in dirhams, pounds and dollars are converted at approximately AED 1 to EUR 0.236, GBP 1 to EUR 1.18 and USD 1 to EUR 0.87, mid market rates from mid August 2026. Every source figure is also held in its original currency so the conversion can be redone. The route from the United Arab Emirates to Turkey is the weakest in the set: no mover publishes a door to door household rate in that direction, so it is built from a published backhaul truck rate, a groupage rate per cubic metre and published sea transit times.
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Verified 2026-08-27.