International Movers Bay Area
Move-Pros is a locally owned and operated agent of Wheaton World Wide Moving. The crew that packs your home in the Bay Area is ours. The network that carries it overseas is Wheaton’s. One coordinator owns the move from the first carton to the final delivery.
Authorized agent
What being a Wheaton agent actually means for your move.
Most international moves are sold by a broker and handed to whoever is cheapest at each leg. An agent relationship works differently: Move-Pros is accountable for your shipment, and Wheaton's global resources are what we use to deliver it.
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Our crew packs your home
The people who wrap your belongings for export are Move-Pros employees out of Hayward, not a subcontracted crew you meet on the day.
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Wheaton's network carries it
Through Wheaton we work with some of the world's largest international moving companies, so your shipment moves on established lanes with partners who are already vetted.
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One coordinator, both ends
You call the same person in Hayward about the survey, the customs forms, the sailing date and the delivery. No handoff chain, no new case number.
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Experience that corporate moves demand
We provide international services for some of California's largest multinational companies, and our crews work with families from every background and language.
Door to door, not port to port.
An international quote from Move-Pros covers the whole journey. Nothing is left for you to arrange at the other end.
An in-home or video survey of everything that's going, so the volume, the mode and the cost are based on your actual belongings.
Overseas shipping is harder on furniture than a cross-town move. Everything is packed to export standard, with custom crates for art, antiques and anything fragile.
We prepare the customs forms your destination requires and check them before they go, because a paperwork error is what strands a shipment at the port.
Sole-use containers for a full household, or shared container space when your shipment doesn't fill one on its own.
For the things you cannot be without while the container is at sea, or for a small shipment where speed matters more than cost.
Clearance at the far end, delivery to the new address, unpacking, reassembly and removal of the packing debris.
Six stages, one coordinator.
- Weeks out
Survey
We walk the home, in person or by video, and list what is shipping, what is storing and what is staying.
- Weeks out
Plan and quote
Ocean or air, the sailing or flight window, the documents you will need, and the cost — in writing.
- Pack week
Export packing
Our crew packs and inventories everything to export standard and builds crates for the pieces that need them.
- Pack week
Documents filed
Customs paperwork is completed, checked and submitted so nothing holds the shipment at either border.
- In transit
Ocean or air
Your shipment moves through Wheaton's network. You follow it online and your coordinator flags every milestone.
- Arrival
Clear and deliver
Customs clearance at destination, delivery to the new address, unpacking, reassembly, debris removed.
Stages five and six run on the Wheaton World Wide Moving network. Move-Pros stays your point of contact the whole way, so the questions you have while the shipment is at sea go to the same coordinator who packed your home.
Which way your shipment should travel.
Most households use both: the bulk goes by sea, a small air shipment covers the gap until it lands.
Ocean freight
The default for a full household. Furniture, appliances, books and everything else that can wait travels by container.
- Best for
- Whole-home shipments and anything heavy or bulky
- Container options
- Sole-use for a full household, or shared space when your shipment won't fill one
- Trade-off
- The most cost-effective way to move volume, at the cost of weeks rather than days in transit
Air freight
For what you need in the first weeks, and for shipments small enough that speed costs less than storage would.
- Best for
- Clothing, kitchen basics, work equipment, children's things
- How it pairs
- Sent alongside an ocean shipment so you are set up before the container arrives
- Trade-off
- Days instead of weeks, at a higher cost per pound and a tighter weight allowance
Transit times depend on the lane, the season and customs at the destination. Your coordinator quotes the real window for your origin and destination rather than a brochure average.
Wherever the Bay Area is headed next.
Silicon Valley sends people everywhere, and we have packed homes for most versions of that story. Tell us the destination address and we will confirm the lane, the mode and the paperwork it needs.
- Corporate relocations and assignments abroad
- Families moving for a new job
- Academics and researchers on placement
- Returning home after years in the States
- Retirees moving overseas
- Partial shipments into furnished housing
Every international move starts with a survey.
Tell us where you are going and roughly when. A coordinator will book a free in-home or video survey, then put the mode, the timeline, the documents and the cost in writing before you commit to anything.
Move-Pros · 30956 San Clemente St, Hayward, CA 94544 · Cal-T 189851 · USDOT 1239227 · MC 483729 · Agent of Wheaton World Wide Moving