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**URGENT** - Shipment of belongings from Qatar to Saudi Arabia - please help!

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Latest post on 28 February 2017 - 12:41
Dear friends, Can you please share your experiences of transporting household and personal belongings from other Middle Eastern countries to KSA by land, sea or air. We are trying to ship a mere 5/6 cubic meters from Qatar to Riyadh and are being quoted extortionate prices of 9000 QAT (2000 GBP) for the cheapest option, which is a land shipment. The same shipment from Qatar to Dubai costs around 3500 QAR. The explanation we are given is that the transporters are reluctant to commit to trips to KSA due to it being "challenging",and, as not many goods are being transported - the combined/ shared option is not available, so we being charged for a whole half-empty truck. We have asked questions about: - air freight - using a smaller truck - waiting for a combined shipment opportunity - hiring a man and a van ourselves - hiring a van and doing a self-drive but I am not getting any helpful answers. Please let me know if you have any advice for us - we are now desperate. Many thanks, K :-)