London & Home Counties Regional Sales Office: 07917 344 779 | Northern & West Midlands Regional Sales Office: 07876 820 833
London & Home Counties Regional Sales Office: 07917 344 779 | Northern & West Midlands Regional Sales Office: 07876 820 833
We offer regular sailings from the UK to the Caribbean, Africa, and South America.
We ship worldwide. Get in touch and we’ll confirm availability and pricing.
The plastic and metal barrels that once carried the goods, gifts and belongings of someone ‘a foreign’ to the hands of someone ‘back a yard’ are seen all over Jamaica in their retirement phase and are recycled as water storage containers, jerk bar-b-q’s (metal barrels only!) and other types of storage vessels.
It is a fairly simple process to arrange from the UK side of things and I would imagine the process is more or less the same no matter where you ship from:
Find a good local shipping agent to buy a barrel from, usually at around £65.00 for a 220 litre plastic barrel, most agents will deliver sometimes for a small fee.
Pack your barrel with care! Wrap lids with brown packing tape and separate food items away from toiletries, soap powder and cleaning materials, so they taste and smell as they should. Bubble wrap fragile items and use towels, bed sheets and other soft items as protection.
Arrange for collection from your shipping agent and make sure they put a ‘lock’ on your barrel. Pay for shipping to either Kingston or Montego bay. KEEP YOUR RECEIPT IN A SAFE PLACE AS IT SHOULD HAVE THE BARREL NUMBERS LISTED.
Hope for safe travels…..
I am looking forward to meeting my barrels ‘on the other side’ after seeing them off safely in London. Next time I glimpse them they will have crossed the ocean waves and will hopefully of landed in Kingston, Jamaica wondering why it is so hot all of a sudden!
If you want to ship to Jamaica, there are eight easy steps to clearing the articles at the wharf.
Barrels containing a mixture of food, used household and kitchen items, cleaning materials and other sundry items have the lowest tax bracket as they are considered to be items for personal use. When I asked the shipping agent in London how much tax I was likely to pay for one barrel they said it would be around $6,000 and would be payable at the wharf in Jamaica.
| Destination | Sailing Frequency | Transit Time |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston, Jamaica |
Sailing Frequency :Continuous |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Montego Bay, Jamaica |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Barbados |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Trinidad |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Dominica |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| St Lucia |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| St Vincent |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Grenada |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| St Kitts |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Antigua |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Montserrat |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Grand Cayman |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Guyana |
Sailing Frequency :Every 2 weeks |
Transit Time :14 21 days |
| Destination | Sailing Frequency | Transit Time |
|---|---|---|
| Caceudo |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Rio Hania |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Santo Domingo |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :25 days |
| French Guiana (Degrad Des Cannes) |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :40 days |
| Guadeloupe : Pointe A Pitre |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :35 days |
| Guatemala : Guatemala City |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :25 days |
| Mauritius – Port Louis |
Sailing Frequency :Fortnightly |
Transit Time :45 days |
| Willemstad |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| St Eustace |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :40 days |
| Suriname (Paramaribo) |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Turks & Cacaos (Providenciales) |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Anguilla |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Destination | Sailing Frequency | Transit Time |
|---|---|---|
| Mombasa |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :25 days |
| Nairobi |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :45 days |
| Tanzania |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Uganda (Kampala) |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :45 days |
| Durban |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :17 days |
| Johannesburg |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :21 days |
| East London |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :21 days |
| Cape Town |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :21 days |
| Port Elizabeth |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :25 days |
| Lagos |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :23 days |
| Tema |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :25 days |
| Gambia (Banjul) |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :20 days |
| Destination | Sailing Frequency | Transit Time |
|---|---|---|
| Tortola |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :25 days |
| Georgetown, Grand Cayman |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :25 days |
| Charlotte Amile |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| St Maarten |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| St Croix (US Virgin Islands) |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Bahamas – Freeport / Nassau |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Hamilton |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :30 days |
| Belize City |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :35 days |
| Cuba – Havana |
Sailing Frequency :Weekly |
Transit Time :40 days |
