International Car Movements has been involved in automotive shipping and logistics for over a decade. What started out helping UK clients move cars around the country grew, slowly and naturally, into a cross-border operation built around private buyers, collectors and trade clients who wanted something more considered than the high-volume, lowest-quote operators that dominate international car shipping.
The intention from the outset was simple: move every car as if it were the only car on the trailer, handle the customs paperwork in the background, and never ask the client to stand at a port. That discipline is still the same now. The route map is wider.
Over the years the work has become more specialist. As more clients began moving Ferraris to Monaco for the Grand Prix or a summer residency, Aston Martins to Saint-Tropez in August and classic Jaguars across the Atlantic for Pebble Beach, we concentrated the business around UK to Mediterranean luxury and supercar transport. These clients were not looking for a generic shipper. They wanted someone who understood the marque, the destination and the level of privacy each move required.
Today the core of the business is door-to-door transport planned car by car for luxury and supercar owners moving vehicles to the Mediterranean coast: Monaco, Cannes, Nice, Saint-Tropez, Marbella, Mallorca and the Italian Riviera. The route knowledge is specific rather than generic. Our drivers know which Monégasque bay a transporter is permitted to occupy at hand-over, which Marseille agent clears an EU import inside a day and which Genoa berth suits a multi-vehicle consignment for the lakes.
That specialism sits alongside a wider book of cross-border work. We ship UK to Europe across nine countries, with named city expertise on the Côte d’Azur, the Costa del Sol and the Italian Riviera. We ship UK to USA by sea freight, in container and enclosed options, with particular expertise on the 25-year exemption for classic imports and the East and West Coast concours markets.
We have remained a small, family-run business by choice. The named contact on your shipment is the person co-ordinating it from collection to hand-over: not a call-centre seat, not a load-board broker, not a junior. That trade-off is the reason our clients come back for every car they move.
