Chris,
By the way, if you are shipping vehicles the ONLY way to go is roll-on roll-off ships. Maybe if you had a veteran Rolls Royce or brand new Ferarri you might use a container but the risk if theft or damage is about zero - these guys carry hundreds of thousands of cars a year in the car carrier ships. The fellows loading the vehicles have each driven more different cars than the entire MLU forum membership combined!
Cost and convenience are the main things. I just put my Fiat 500 Bambino on the ship yesterday to go to Vladivostok - have a look at my web site
www.next-horizon.org (We are going through Russia now because of the Iran situation)
The cost of it going as LCL (packed in a container with other stuff) was AUD$1,100 BUT the cost of having the required professionally built wood crate was $790 extra. If I did not want to box it a full container just for my car was $2,900. All that stuffing around delivering it to the packer and having it picked up for trucking, smashed around by forklift in its box and unpacking at the other end.
The TOTAL cost roll-on roll-off - $750. I meet it at the dock and drive away.
Lang