Door-to-door removals from the UK to Basel. We pack and load in Britain, run the road leg to the Swiss frontier, and our Swiss destination agent clears customs and delivers to your address in canton Basel-Stadt. BAR Overseas Group member, fully insured.
Removals to Basel from the UK (Bâle) are handled end to end — we pack and load in Britain, run the road leg to the Swiss frontier, and our Swiss destination agent clears customs and delivers to your door in canton Basel-Stadt. German is the working language here, and the practical details of a Basel delivery are genuinely different from anywhere else in the country, which is why this page exists rather than a generic Switzerland one.
Basel is pharmaceutical Switzerland. Roche and Novartis are headquartered here and the surrounding life-sciences cluster pulls in scientists, clinicians and executives from across the world, which is why our Basel moves skew towards research and industry rather than finance. The city sits right on the corner where Switzerland, France and Germany meet, so a Basel household often ends up living in one country and working in another.
Basel is pharmaceutical Switzerland. Roche and Novartis are headquartered here and the surrounding life-sciences cluster draws scientists, clinicians and executives, so our Basel moves skew towards research and industry rather than finance. Our Switzerland removals page covers the customs position in full, and it is worth reading before you book anything.
The Basel old town on the Grossbasel side is medieval and steeply pitched in places, with streets that a full-size pantechnicon simply cannot enter — we shuttle in a smaller vehicle for the last stretch. The tri-border position also has a practical consequence worth planning for: if you are living on the French or German side of the frontier but working in Basel, the customs entry has to be made into the right country, and getting that wrong is an expensive correction.
The Grossbasel old town is medieval and steeply pitched in places, with streets no pantechnicon will enter, so we shuttle the last stretch in a smaller vehicle. Riehen and Bruderholz are suburban and straightforward by comparison. The survey question that matters most in Basel is which side of which border your new address is on. Where a piece needs protecting for a tight turn or a window entry, our custom crate service and export packing handle it.
Basel sits on the corner where Switzerland, France and Germany meet, and that is not a geographical curiosity — it is the single most important question on a Basel move. If you work in the city but live in Saint-Louis or Weil am Rhein, the entry is made into France or Germany, not Switzerland. The full Swiss customs position — Übersiedlungsgut relief, the six-month rule, Form 18.44 and the inventory requirements — is set out on our removals to Switzerland page, and it is worth reading before you book anything.
For a Basel delivery specifically, the thing to get right is sequence: your residence registration in canton Basel-Stadt needs to exist before your goods arrive. If your permit and your moving date do not line up, our Lower Dicker storage can hold everything in the UK until Switzerland is ready — almost always cheaper than a container sitting in bond at the Swiss end.
Allow 10–14 days door to door, and Basel has the shortest inland leg of any Swiss city we serve — it sits directly on the frontier. Almost the whole window is UK packing, the road run to the border and clearance itself. If your address turns out to be on the French or German side, the timing changes as well as the rate. The same window applies across our European removals service.
A sole-use load sits at the faster end because it travels direct with no transhipment. A shared part-load waits for a scheduled departure, which is the trade-off that keeps the cost down. Late July and August are the busiest weeks across the whole industry, and winter weather can affect a date in the higher cantons between roughly November and March — we build that contingency into the plan rather than promising a day we cannot hold.
We are a small, family-run Sussex firm, established in 2017, and international removals are a core part of the business rather than something bolted on. The crew who pad-wrap your furniture in the UK are our own, working to our white-glove method — each piece wrapped in your home and unwrapped only once it is standing in its room in Basel. We compile the itemised inventory that a Swiss entry depends on, and we do not hand your goods through a chain of subcontractors.
We are a member of the British Association of Removers Overseas Group, we work to the BS 8564 quality standard for international moves, and every consignment is fully insured. Read our customer reviews, use the free volume calculator to size your load, or call 01323 848 008 and speak to Mark about your Basel move directly.
Switzerland is priced by volume, at the same rate to every canton — a shared load runs from £145 per cubic metre with a 4 m³ minimum, and a dedicated vehicle, yours alone with no transhipment, starts at £4,250. If your address turns out to be in France or Germany rather than Switzerland, the rate changes — French and German routes are cheaper per cubic metre than the Swiss one. If your address turns out to be in France or Germany rather than Switzerland, the rate changes — French and German routes are cheaper per cubic metre than the Swiss one.
| Your home | Typical volume | From |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or single room | 10 m³ | £1,450 |
| One-bedroom flat | 18 m³ | £2,610 |
| Two-bedroom house | 30 m³ | £4,350 |
| Three-bedroom house | 45 m³ | £6,525 |
| Four-bedroom house | 62 m³ | £8,990 |
| Five-bedroom house or larger | 85 m³ | £12,325 |
These are the prices you pay. International removals are zero-rated for UK VAT, so unlike a domestic house move there is nothing to add on top. Import duty or VAT levied by the destination country, where your goods do not qualify for transfer-of-residence relief, is separate and is payable there rather than to us.
What changes between Swiss destinations is the delivery leg rather than the rate — the access notes above are what shape a Basel quote. Volumes here are typical rather than measured; the survey sets the real figure and the price is then fixed in writing. Our free volume calculator gives you a cubic-feet number in a couple of minutes. For the supplementary tariff and what is included, see the Switzerland page or the full European rate card.
The German-speaking cities west and south of Basel, each an easy train ride away. The national rate is the same wherever the load goes in Switzerland — what changes is the access, the language at the door and the timing, and each page covers its own.
Allow 10–14 days door to door, and Basel has the shortest inland leg of any Swiss city we serve — it sits directly on the frontier. Almost the whole window is UK packing, the road run to the border and clearance itself. If your address turns out to be on the French or German side, the timing changes as well as the rate.
Our Swiss destination agent. We pack, load, inventory and export from the UK and run the road leg to the frontier; the agent clears customs and delivers to your address in canton Basel-Stadt. That local knowledge matters here, because the delivery problem in Switzerland is almost never the distance.
The Basel old town on the Grossbasel side is medieval and steeply pitched in places, with streets that a full-size pantechnicon simply cannot enter — we shuttle in a smaller vehicle for the last stretch. The tri-border position also has a practical consequence worth planning for: if you are living on the French or German side of the frontier but working in Basel, the customs entry has to be made into the right… We establish all of it at survey and price any shuttle vehicle or furniture lift into the quote from the start.
Normally not. Used household effects can usually be imported free of duty and Swiss VAT as Übersiedlungsgut when you are genuinely transferring residence, subject to the conditions on use before and after the move, your residence permit or registration, and a full itemised inventory. Vehicles, alcohol, tobacco, firearms and plants are handled separately from the standard relief. In Basel the question before the relief is which country you are importing into at all — Switzerland, France or Germany.
Yes, from anywhere in the UK. Our vehicles run regular collection routes through London, Sussex, Norfolk, Wales, the Midlands and Scotland. Those are collection runs rather than premises — our only depot is at Lower Dicker in East Sussex, and that is where every European load is consolidated, checked and sealed before it travels.
The one for the country you actually live in, and it is usually cheaper. Our Swiss rate is £145 per cubic metre; France is £95 and the Benelux and German routes lower still. More importantly, the customs entry has to be made into the right country. Tell us the address rather than the employer and we will price it correctly.
Yes, with a shuttle. The medieval core has streets a full-size lorry cannot physically enter and gradients that rule out others, so the main vehicle parks at a permitted point and we transfer to a smaller van for the final stretch. It is established at survey and priced in rather than sprung on the day.
Household goods yes, and we crate delicate items properly. Specialist laboratory equipment, anything requiring calibration, controlled substances or regulated materials is outside what a household remover should handle, and we will say so and point you to a specialist rather than take it on.
Call us for a free, no-obligation quote, or use our online form. Whether it is a shared part-load or a whole house, we have handled the route before and we will handle yours with care.