Reinforced storage crates in Manila and Cebu: sealed once, able to cross water unopened
A timber crate built to your load, reinforced with steel, locked, and held in Asia Relocation Philippines' own warehouse until it is lifted onto a truck or a vessel exactly as it was sealed. For households leaving one island for another, or the country for a while.
A reinforced crate is the storage that expects to move. In an archipelago that is not rare: a household transferred from Manila to Cebu waits for a sailing, a family leaving for two years keeps the furniture here, a company sends an office to a new island. Cartons handled twice arrive tired; a steel-reinforced timber crate arrives as it was sealed.
What it asks in return is a decision at the survey rather than after it. Crated goods are stacked for protection, so getting one item back is a scheduled handling, not a visit; and crates are built in Manila and Cebu but not in Davao, which decides where a crated load sits. Changing product later means handling everything again.
Asia Relocation Philippines has built and held crates here since 2011, in its own warehouses in Manila and Cebu, in flood-free zones, watched around the clock. The inventory written as the crate is packed is the list checked when it is opened, next month or in two years across the sea.
Built, sealed and held, and when another service is the answer
Three ways to store with us; this one is for goods that will travel.
Carried by the service
- A crate built to the load: timber with steel corners and braces, sized so nothing moves, lockable, resistant to moisture and pests.
- Packing by our crew, each item wrapped as it requires and listed as it goes in; the inventory is yours from the day of sealing.
- A hold in our own warehouse, Manila or Cebu, flood-free, under cameras, alarms and security, for weeks or years.
- A crate that travels as it is: lifted onto a truck or a vessel unopened when the hold ends, the inventory travelling with it.
- An agreement that bends: extension, early release and a scheduled opening for one item, all in the same document.
Crates are sized and counted at the survey; the figure is written on what is built.
A different service
- Goods you will keep visiting. If you expect to fetch things every few weeks, a sealed case is the wrong product; a locked unit of your own is self storage.
- Goods the air would spoil. Electronics, instruments, art, wine and paper need a held climate, not a timber case: air-conditioned storage, which reaches Davao.
- The crossing itself. Getting the crate from Manila to Cebu, or out of the country, is our moving service in the Philippines; the crate is built so the two are one file.
- A crate in Davao. Not built there. A household settling in the south stores in a conditioned unit; we say so before the survey.
Name the rest in the inquiry; one coordinator handles it.
Four loads that end up in a sealed case
Same timber, same steel; what differs is how far it goes.
The household moving between islands
A transfer from Manila to Cebu or Davao is a sea leg, and sea legs wait: for a sailing, a berth, the weather. Goods crated before the crossing and held at either end come through as they went in.
The home left behind for a while
A posting abroad with a return clause, a school year at home, a contract that may not be renewed. The furniture is crated once, held in Manila, then delivered back or sent on without repacking.
The load whose next address is not yet known
A household landed before the lease is signed, a family deciding between two cities. Crated at the port of entry, every option stays open.
The office, the stock, the exhibition kit
Workstations parked while a lease is renegotiated, a branch sent to another island, event kit used twice a year. Crated by the room, listed by the item, produced by the case.
Five steps from the survey to a crate that leaves as sealed
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The survey, and the two questions
We see the load, then ask where it goes afterwards and whether you will want anything back meanwhile. Those two answers settle whether crates are right, how many, and which city.
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The crates, built to the goods
Cases are built to the sizes the load needs, not the load forced into standard cases: a sofa, a table, a wardrobe each get a crate that holds them still.
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Packing, sealing, listing
Our crew wraps each item, places it, and writes the inventory as the crate fills. The case is locked and sealed, the list handed to you before it leaves.
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The hold
Crates are stacked in our Manila or Cebu warehouse, under cameras and alarms, on ground that does not flood. Nothing is asked of you.
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Out, or onward
Delivered back against the same inventory, or lifted unopened onto the truck or vessel for the next island or country. The storage file becomes the travelling file.
Four clients whose goods will move again
The family transferred to another island
Manila to Cebu, Cebu to Davao: an internal move here is a crossing, and the household waits in crates built for a crane, not a hallway.
The expatriate leaving, and probably coming back
Two years away with a return clause. Moving a household out and back costs more than holding it once, and much of what a Manila home accumulates is worth keeping but not worth a container.
The company sending a branch elsewhere
Desks, files and fittings from a Makati floor, crated by the room, held until the Cebu premises are ready, then sent on.
The household that landed early
The container is here, the home is not. Crated at the point of entry, the goods wait without having travelled the wrong way.
Two warehouse cities build crates, and the third does not
Crates built and held in Metro Manila and Cebu; Davao is served with air-conditioned units only.
Manila is where most crates are built, and the default place to hold anything whose destination is not fixed: it is the country's point of entry and departure, so a crate waiting there has not travelled the wrong way. Cebu is a full second warehouse with its own crating, which spares a household bound for the Visayas a hold in the capital and a sea leg.
Davao is the honest limit. Crating is a Manila and Cebu capability; a household settling in Mindanao stores in a conditioned unit there, or has its crates built and held in a warehouse city until the crossing.
What clients ask before a crate is sealed
When is a crate the right choice rather than a unit?
What is the crate made of?
Which cities build and hold crates?
Can we get something out during the hold?
Do the crates go from storage straight to a move?
What may not go into a crate?
How long can a crate be held?
How is crate storage priced?
When a sealed case is not what you need
Your goods need a steady climate more than a strong box
Electronics, instruments, art, wine and archives: a conditioned unit we manage in Manila, Cebu or Davao, released by the item.
Air-conditioned storage in the Philippines →The whole storage service
Reinforced crates, conditioned units and self storage, and the one question, which island, that decides between them.
Storage services in the Philippines →Tell us what has to wait, and where it goes afterwards
We survey, size the crates, and put the figure in writing. Sealed once, opened wherever you end up.
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