International Sea & AirShippingPROVerified business?

I deeply regret choosing this company, I will lay out why and know that there will no doubt be a lengthy response trying to justify each issue instead of an apology for really poor communication as the company does not take well to any valid criticism. I can assure you everything I say is true and leave it up to you to decide if you want to risk a similar experience. My first issue with the company was the lack of clear communication. From the beginning we told the first employee who is marketing executive that our move would be in June or July and she provided a quote that in the end we had to ask why we were being charged quite a bit more, she argued the quote she gave us was for March and that we had additional charges added in the end, but we clearly communicated when the move would be, she never once mentioned the price would increase. The operations manager at the company also emailed in June (one month early)regarding picking up our items that week and had us confused with another family of the same surname in different state which was extremely stressful. When I tried to communicate via email, he instead called and he used profanity on the call when he realised his mistake. We had a set pick up date in July for well over a month confirmed by the operations manager and it was rescheduled multiple times at the last minute by no request or fault of ours due to multiple logistics issues that the company had. In the end it wasn’t picked up until the day before we left the country and this caused a great deal of stress for my family and distrust. Each time it was rescheduled the operations manager was very apologetic and promised the proper truck would be sent out, not a shuttle. This is the worst part for my family because we were promised multiple times and assured (on the phone again) that we would not incur the almost $2,000 charge for the shuttle. In the end we found out on our 3rd rescheduled pick up day last minute that we would be paying it, there was never any accountability or apology for 2 different employees guaranteeing us and literally promising us we would not incur that fee and would not need a shuttle. We moved and waited and were informed twice that our shipment would be delayed, once because ‘their container had a hole in it’. This meant not having furniture and having to spend money to account for receiving our things a month later than quoted. Finally, after 3 months we were informed our things would be arriving and we would need to pay an additional moving fee for our ‘address changing’. Now let me add the context, in our initial quote we asked about not having our official address as we were in the buying process and were advised to use the closet city. Our address that they had for well over a month ended up being slightly closer to the movers on this end and has a private drive for them to park their trucks and easily move in the load. Yet we were charged around $600 for this. It was never communicated to us that this would be a possibility and actually the opposite, when we asked we were told it wouldn’t be an increase. The movers called us before arrival and told us it was the worst shipping container they had ever seen and looked like items were ‘thrown in’. They took pictures and provided them to us which I will attach to this review. Only a small amount of our items were damaged thankfully, one being a kayak which was extremely disappointing. The worst part for my family is that mistakes happen but the company have never once shown a desire to take any accountability or make any of these things right for us. Upon my initial review there was also quite the desire to have me remove it, instead of just connecting and listening to our genuinely bad experience and offering a way to make any of it right. If you are using this company, be prepared to spend at least $3,000 more than your quote, keep everything in writing via email and please do not fall for believing their word on the phone because this is the mistake we made and hope no one else has to experience.

I never shipped internationally before and was overwhelmed with finding a company. I called international sea and air shipping and was pleasantly surprised at how accommodating they were! From the first phone call to packing, everything was very smooth! The packing was unbelievable very professional! I just spoke with Brian and my shipment is leaving today!! I will keep you updated on the other end!🤞thank you guys for making my move easy!

We moved from Philadelphia to Istanbul, Turkey with International Sea & Air Shipping and very happy with the whole process. We selected partial packing and only packed our small items into boxes and left all the furniture packing to the company. Their friendly and helpful team arrived and carefully packed every furniture and dissambeled the ones that required it. They put everything in a 20-feet-container and our furniture arrived to our apartment in Istanbul in the same conatiner. It was a very smooth process. The moving company they hired in Turkey was also very kind and caring. They set us a nice desk in front of the apartment and let us go through the inventory before everything moves in. No missing pieces, no damaged items. We carefully discussed the expected cost with the company beforehand and everything costed as we expected (and was way cheaper than other quotes we got). Thank you so much for everything!!