Asset Transportation
Your valuables and equipment, sent ahead and waiting when you arrive.
This is the service that moves your things so you do not have to. We collect from a residence, hotel, chalet, marina or vault, pack what is going, list it piece by piece, seal it, move it by road or by air, and deliver it to the next address before you get there. Ski equipment to the Alps in November. A golf set to the course the day before the first tee time. A wardrobe to a fashion week. A painting to a house that has just been finished. A jewellery case that never touches a baggage carousel.
One named contact holds the whole movement, from the first collection to the final signature, so there is no forwarding agent to chase and no carrier call centre to explain yourself to. Where the contents justify it, a close protection officer travels with the shipment rather than behind it, and the vehicle becomes a protected movement rather than a delivery. Send the inventory and the two addresses and you receive a written plan and a price, with no obligation.
- Collection at a residence, hotel, chalet, marina, gallery or vault
- Professional packing, an itemised inventory and numbered seals before departure
- Movement by road or air, escorted by a close protection officer where warranted
- Customs and documentation handled by licensed specialists in each country
- Delivery ahead of your arrival, unpacked and placed if that is what you want
- One contact, one file, one signature at each end of the journey
What people ask before enquiring.
What can be shipped
Suitcases, trunks and wardrobe cases. Ski and snowboard equipment, golf sets, tennis and diving kit, bicycles. Camera, film and music gear. Fine art, antiques, sculpture and design pieces. Jewellery, watch collections, rare timepieces and collectibles. Documents, archives and the contents of a safe deposit box. If it is legal to move and you can describe it, we can quote it.
How it works
You send an inventory and two addresses. We confirm the packing standard, the route, the mode and the dates in writing, then collect, seal, move and deliver. You are given a single point of contact and a running position for the shipment. Nothing is subcontracted onward without you knowing who is holding your property.
Cover and chain of custody
Every shipment carries a declared value that you set, and specialist transit cover is arranged against that declaration and confirmed in writing before collection, not after a loss. Custody is a signed document: who packed it, who sealed it, which seal numbers, who carried it, who received it. Each transfer of the goods is a signature, and the seals are checked and photographed at both ends.
How long it takes
Quoted to the brief, because a wardrobe crossing a city and a crate crossing a border are not the same problem. We ask for at least seven days. That is the honest lead time for vetting the brief, assigning the right officer and doing the advance work. Under 48 hours is an urgency case: additional fees, and no guarantee. Road movements inside Europe are measured in days, air movements in hours plus clearance time, and the calendar is confirmed before you commit.
With or without protection
Most luggage moves need careful handling, not an officer. High-value single items, cash-equivalent goods, vault-to-vault transfers and anything whose loss would be newsworthy are moved with a close protection officer aboard and, where the picture warrants it, a second vehicle. The escort is a decision you make on the facts, and we tell you plainly when it is unnecessary.
Who uses it
Families moving between a winter and a summer residence. Executives and their assistants who refuse to arrive without their bags. Collectors, galleries and private offices. Stylists and production teams working a fashion week. Yacht and villa managers provisioning ahead of an owner. Anyone who has spent an evening at a lost-baggage desk and decided once was enough.
There is no price list, and any published one would be fiction.
A shipment is priced on what it actually is, so we quote to the brief rather than to a table. What moves the number is straightforward and we set it out before you decide: the weight and the volume, the distance and whether the route runs by road or by air, the declared value and the cover it requires, the number of collection and delivery points, the packing standard the contents demand, whether the timing is normal or urgent, the complexity of the customs position, and whether an officer travels with the goods.
Two of those deserve a note. Packing is not a formality: a padded case, a purpose-built crate and a climate-controlled crate for a canvas are three different costs and three different levels of protection. And urgency is expensive in a specific way, because a shipment that must clear customs on a Friday afternoon is buying priority from a week that is already booked. Tell us the real deadline and we will price against it.
Six steps, in this order, every time.
The sequence below is the whole service. Nothing is improvised at the door, and nothing is decided while a driver waits with your property in a vehicle.
Inventory, Addresses and Dates
You tell us what is moving, from where, to where and by when. We confirm the mode, the route, the packing standard, the declared value, the cover and the price in writing. If a customs position is complicated, you learn that now rather than at a border.
At the Residence, Hotel or Vault
A vetted team arrives at the address and the hour agreed, in unmarked vehicles, dressed for the building they are walking into. Collection from a hotel is arranged with the concierge desk so nothing sits unattended in a lobby, and collection from a vault follows the institution’s own release procedure.
Counted, Photographed, Sealed
Every piece is listed, tagged and photographed, then packed to the agreed standard and closed with numbered tamper-evident seals. You receive the inventory and the seal numbers before the vehicle moves. This is the step that makes a later dispute a matter of record rather than a matter of memory.
By Road or by Air
Road for control, air for speed, and often both on the same job. Routes are planned around congestion, border hours and overnight stops, and a high-value load does not stop where it cannot be watched. Position is reported to you, and to nobody else, for the whole of the journey.
Customs and Formalities
Cross-border movement is a paperwork problem before it is a driving problem. Declarations, temporary admission for items travelling out and back, permits for restricted categories and any legalisation required are handled by licensed specialists in each country, prepared in advance rather than produced at a barrier.
Ahead of Your Arrival
The shipment lands at the next address before you do. Seals are checked against the numbers issued, the inventory is reconciled piece by piece, and a named person signs. Where you want it, cases are unpacked, the wardrobe is hung and the equipment is placed, so the room is ready rather than merely full.
Season Moves: Ski Equipment and Golf Sets, Sent Ahead
The most common request we receive is also the simplest. Skis, boots, poles, helmets and outerwear for a family of five do not belong in an airport queue, and a set of clubs that has been fitted to you does not belong in an aircraft hold with a paper tag on it. We collect the equipment from your residence in the weeks before the season, move it to the chalet or the hotel ski room, and have it waiting, dry and racked, on the day you land.
We run this route through the winter to Courchevel and the Trois Vallées, St Moritz, Verbier, Gstaad and Aspen, and in the other direction at the end of the season, when equipment goes back to storage rather than home in a car. Golf sets follow the same logic on a shorter clock: collected from the club or the house, delivered to the resort, and returned afterwards without you carrying a travel case through a terminal.
Enquire about season movesWardrobe Ahead of Events and Fashion Weeks
A wardrobe is the least forgiving thing anyone asks us to move. It is bulky, it creases, it is frequently irreplaceable within the timescale, and it is needed at a fixed hour on a fixed evening. Couture, tailoring, gowns and the accessories that go with them travel hanging in purpose-built wardrobe cases, climate-aware where the fabrics demand it, and arrive pressed and ready rather than folded into a suitcase and hopeful.
Stylists, private clients and production teams use this around Milan Fashion Week and the Paris, London and New York calendars, around galas and award evenings, and around a destination wedding where a dress must reach a villa in another country without being handled by anyone outside the arrangement. Where a look is on loan from a house, the chain of custody document is the thing that matters, because it is what the lender will ask for. We build the movement backwards from the hour the piece has to be on a rail in the room.
Enquire about wardrobe transportArt, Jewellery and Valuables, Under Escort
Some property is not shipped, it is transferred. Paintings, sculpture, jewellery, watch collections, rare documents and the contents of a safe deposit box move under a sealed, escorted arrangement that resembles a diplomatic transfer far more than it resembles a courier run: packed and sealed in front of a witness, carried by a team that knows what it is holding, accompanied by a close protection officer, and released only against a named signature at the far end.
Collection and delivery are arranged at private vaults, banks, galleries, auction houses, restorers and private residences, and the movement can be timed to an event, an exhibition, a valuation or a completion date. Nothing about the load is advertised: vehicles are unmarked, the route is not shared, and the people who need to know the contents are the people carrying them. For clients who want the same discipline applied to their information as well as their property, this sits alongside our approach to secrecy in a digital era.
Enquire about escorted transfersHotel to Hotel, Airport to Residence, City to City
The short movements are the ones that quietly ruin days. Ten pieces of luggage that have to leave one hotel at eleven and be in another city by six. A family arriving on a private aircraft with more bags than the cars can take. A checkout that clashes with a meeting, so the room has to be cleared while you are somewhere else. We collect from the concierge desk, move the load separately from the people, and deliver into the next room before you reach it.
This is deliberately decoupled from your own transport. You travel in the car you were going to travel in, with what you actually need beside you, and your luggage travels in a vehicle sized for it. Where the itinerary is a tour or a multi-city trip, the same team runs the baggage forward city by city while you move on a schedule that no longer has to accommodate a boot that will not close. It pairs naturally with executive transportation and with our wider luggage services.
Enquire about a transferCross-Border Moves and Relocations
Moving a household between countries is where the paperwork decides everything. Personal effects, artworks, wine, instruments and furniture each sit in their own category, and a category that has been declared wrongly does not simply cost money, it costs weeks. We coordinate the route, the timing and the documentation together, working with licensed customs specialists in each jurisdiction so that the declarations, temporary admissions and permits are prepared before anything is loaded.
Our routine corridors run across Europe, into and out of the Middle East, and across South America, and we plan them with the border procedures already in the schedule rather than as a surprise at the end of it. Where a residence is being opened or closed around the move, the property side is handled by the same office through real estate management and villa and property rental, so one team knows the inventory and the keys.
Enquire about a relocationYacht and Villa Provisioning, Delivered to the Berth
A yacht at anchor and a villa opening for the season have the same problem: everything has to be there before the principal is, and nothing can be left in a public place while it waits. We deliver to the berth, the passerelle, the gate or the service entrance at an agreed hour, against a named receiver, and we hold the load until that person is present rather than leaving it with whoever answers.
Typical loads are the owner’s luggage and wardrobe joining the vessel at a change of port, water sports and diving equipment, cellar deliveries, linen and specialist provisions, and the personal effects that follow a family from one residence to the next. It works alongside yacht charter, private aviation and executive concierge, so a single itinerary covers the people, the vessel and everything that has to meet them.
Enquire about provisioningMost shipments need care. A few need an officer.
Adding protection to a shipment is a decision, not an upsell. It makes sense when a single item carries a value that would attract organised interest, when the goods are cash-equivalent, when the route passes through a jurisdiction where you would not want a driver alone with the load, when the movement is vault to vault, and when the fact of the movement itself is sensitive, such as a collection leaving a residence that is being sold. For a set of skis going to a chalet, it does not.
Where an escort is used, the person aboard is not a courier with a title. A security-trained driver is a close protection officer at the wheel, accredited and locally licensed, and that officer is charged at the protection rate rather than a delivery rate: from EUR 850 per day, which is the market base for a single officer on twelve-hour cover, with the final figure shaped by the profile, the route and the season. The shipment itself is quoted separately and to the brief. We ask for at least seven days. That is the honest lead time for vetting the brief, assigning the right officer and doing the advance work. Under 48 hours is an urgency case: additional fees, and no guarantee. Armed cover, where lawful, needs a minimum 30-day authorisation and can be refused. What that buys is described in more detail on our close protection pricing page.
Tell us what is moving, and where it has to be.
An inventory, two addresses and a date are enough for a written plan and a price. Six suitcases to a hotel, a ski set to the Alps or a sealed transfer under escort, one contact holds it from collection to signature.
EnquireWhat this connects to.
Luggage Services
Volume baggage for families, groups and tours, moved between airports, hotels and residences. See VIP luggage transportation.
Executive Transportation
Chauffeured and security-trained drivers for the people, while the luggage travels separately. See executive transportation.
Close Protection
The officers who escort a high-value load are the same officers who cover a principal. See bodyguard and close protection.
Private Travel and Aviation
Where the shipment follows an aircraft or a yacht, the schedules are built together. See private travel and private aviation.
Villas and Residences
Opening, closing and provisioning a property around a move. See villas and property rental.
How We Work
One contact, NDA from the first message, licensed partners in each country. See how we work and become a client.
Algoz FZ-LLC (Trade License 5033995 | TRN 105119056700001) is licensed for Businessmen Services and Lifestyle Development Consultancy by RAKEZ. Algoz does not operate its own freight, courier or customs-clearance business, and does not directly provide armed or unarmed security, bodyguard or close-protection services. All transport, packing, customs clearance and protective execution is performed by licensed, insured third-party partners holding the necessary local permits in the relevant jurisdiction (for example Italy’s private-security framework, guardia particolare giurata licensing under the TULPS, authorised by the competent Prefettura); Algoz acts solely as coordinator and point of contact on the client’s behalf, under NDA. Transit insurance is arranged through specialist underwriters against a declared value and is subject to their terms, exclusions and confirmation in writing before collection. Restricted, prohibited and dutiable goods are subject to local law, and clients are responsible for the lawful ownership of the property presented and for obtaining any required approvals. Armed services require a minimum 30-day lead time for authorisation, which may be refused. All activities comply with UAE laws and RAKEZ regulations.