Door-to-door removals from the UK to Fribourg. 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 Fribourg. BAR Overseas Group member, fully insured.
Removals to Fribourg from the UK (Freiburg) 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 Fribourg. French and German is the working language here, and the practical details of a Fribourg delivery are genuinely different from anywhere else in the country, which is why this page exists rather than a generic Switzerland one.
Fribourg straddles the Röstigraben, the invisible line between French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland, and it is genuinely bilingual — street signs, paperwork and neighbours switch between the two. Its university is the only bilingual one in the country, which brings in academic households, and the town is markedly cheaper than Bern half an hour away. For a removal, the bilingualism is a practical detail: your customs inventory and delivery instructions need to be in the language the receiving office actually works in.
Fribourg straddles the Röstigraben, the invisible line between French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland, and it is genuinely bilingual — street signs, paperwork and neighbours switch between the two. Our Switzerland removals page covers the customs position in full, and it is worth reading before you book anything.
The Basse-Ville, down in the loop of the Sarine below the cliffs, is medieval, steep and reached by hairpin lanes and a funicular — it is among the trickiest deliveries in Switzerland and always needs a shuttle vehicle and often a lift. The upper town around Pérolles and the newer suburbs are conventional and straightforward by comparison.
The Basse-Ville, down in the loop of the Sarine below the cliffs, is medieval, steep and reached by hairpin lanes and a funicular. It is among the trickiest deliveries in Switzerland and always needs a shuttle vehicle, often a lift as well. The upper town around Pérolles and the newer suburbs are conventional by comparison. Where a piece needs protecting for a tight turn or a window entry, our custom crate service and export packing handle it.
The bilingualism is a practical detail rather than a charming one: your customs inventory and delivery instructions need to be in the language the receiving office actually works in, and in Fribourg that is not a given. 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 Fribourg delivery specifically, the thing to get right is sequence: your residence registration in canton Fribourg 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. Fribourg is centrally placed and the road leg is straightforward. What can extend a Basse-Ville delivery is the approach rather than the journey: a shuttle down into the river loop takes several runs where an upper-town address takes one. 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 Fribourg. 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 Fribourg 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. A Basse-Ville address will carry a shuttle charge; an address in the upper town or Villars-sur-Glâne generally will not. Same city, materially different quote. A Basse-Ville address will carry a shuttle charge; an address in the upper town or Villars-sur-Glâne generally will not. Same city, materially different quote.
| 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 Fribourg 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.
Fribourg sits on the language border, with German-speaking Bern one way and French-speaking Neuchâtel and Lausanne the other. 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. Fribourg is centrally placed and the road leg is straightforward. What can extend a Basse-Ville delivery is the approach rather than the journey: a shuttle down into the river loop takes several runs where an upper-town address takes one.
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 Fribourg. That local knowledge matters here, because the delivery problem in Switzerland is almost never the distance.
The Basse-Ville, down in the loop of the Sarine below the cliffs, is medieval, steep and reached by hairpin lanes and a funicular — it is among the trickiest deliveries in Switzerland and always needs a shuttle vehicle and often a lift. The upper town around Pérolles and the newer suburbs are conventional and straightforward by… 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 bilingual Fribourg the inventory needs to be in the language the receiving office works in, which is not always the one you expect.
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.
Whichever the receiving office works in, and in Fribourg that genuinely varies. The canton is bilingual and the two languages are not interchangeable administratively. We produce the valued inventory and delivery documentation in the right one rather than assuming, which is one fewer thing to unpick at the frontier.
Yes, and it is one of the more demanding addresses in Switzerland. The lower town sits in the river loop beneath the cliffs, reached by hairpin lanes and a funicular, so a shuttle vehicle is certain and an external lift is likely. We survey it properly because guessing here is expensive.
Markedly, which is much of its appeal — it is about half an hour away and considerably less expensive to live in. The removal rate is the same national figure; what differs between quotes is whether your address needs the shuttle.
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.