With this post I will explain what does this service provide and who offers it at what cost, what are the risks and etc. I will start right from the source and then escalate to the point at matter, I might get a little lost in my own words so try and keep up.
Long distance shipment is a service, which previously was a type of service a moving company offered to their consumers. Mainly for international relocations when a person would like to move at a large distance, lets say from continent to continent. Transporting across the Pacific ocean or any other ocean, or sea, is done through a cargo ship that carries the loads a company has shipped by it. An international moving in scale is the number one. It’s consisted of large number of actions at both the new location and the old one and thus it’s a largely more expensive service, which people rarely searched for.
For such reasons long distance shipment was excluded from the list of services house removalists would offer, thus making it an individual type of service. This was a necessity to turn the attention of consumers towards it by lowering it’s cost significantly and making it more affordable to many.
In general it’s called shipment services and it is still offered by moving businesses. The idea of it is to offer flexible moving services so that a person can have his pick depending on the circumstances he is in and of course the budget he can spend.