Most of the freight UK to the Philippines is routed to HK via the Suez Canal. There will be feeder services to the Suez Canal from Cyprus, but the real art is finding a good freight company who will know how the routes and how to ship cheaply.
I'd recommend contacting the companies listed here by e-mail, and getting some quotes, you'll get an idea of the routes and prices available.
http://www.azfreight.com/azworld/aw14405.cfm
Depending on what your bringing, it can also be cost effective to go down the excess baggage route when your bringing things back. When I brough the remainder of my things out to the Philippines this year, I flew business with KLM and received an extra bag because of elite status, which gave me 4 23kg suitcases, + I bought a car seat, a cot and buggy out (which they did consider charging me for since I didn't have a child flying with me, but they didn't).
