Portsmouth Car Shipping

For an open-carrier sedan, plan on $800 to $1,150 to or from Jacksonville, $1,200 to $1,550 to or from San Antonio, $1,300 to $1,800 to or from Phoenix, $1,350 to $1,800 from San Diego and $1,450 to $1,800 to or from Seattle. The San Diego band covers cars coming into Portsmouth from California, from our own open-carrier orders since 2023; the other four come from moves of similar length booked between September 2025 and August 2026, and the calculator emails an estimate for your exact car and dates that a specialist confirms.

Time on the truck, counted from loading: 1-2 days for Jacksonville, 3-5 for San Antonio, 4-6 for Phoenix and 5-7 for San Diego or Seattle. A Portsmouth pickup usually comes one to three days after the date you say the car is ready, and with a report date in hand we plan backward from it, so a June or July report deserves about three weeks of notice.

Carriers do not enter Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the medical center, or the Coast Guard base. We deliver to your Portsmouth address or to a lot on Frederick Boulevard or Victory Boulevard, minutes from the gates and easy for a 75-foot rig. Have your ID and the pickup paperwork with you.

No. The historic blocks are narrow and parked solid, and the streets around the shipyard gates are worse at shift change. We meet at a Frederick Boulevard lot, five minutes away. Churchland and the western subdivisions usually take the truck to the door.

Yes. We can send the car to a relative’s address in another state now and bring it back when you return, with someone you authorize signing for it at the far end. The return trip is its own order, booked once you know your date, so nothing about it has to be settled before you deploy.