Shipments done by Travellers

Hello Folks! I've done the shipment from Chennai to KL because I did not like the idea of bein escorted through Burma and Thailand, neither I wanted to put the bike on a plane from Kathmandu. I also expected to save some money.

Looking back - all the 3 options seem to have the same value, meaning problems, advantages, costs and so on. I couldn't recommend how to proceed going east from India. But if you want to ship from Chennai, I highly recommend Skylark Cargo Service/Ms Renuka, whose contact is in this description. She took care of me like my own mother and she and her team had a huge interest in sorting out everything for me. Until the ship left India, everything was nice and calm, then everything went wrong ;) The contact for KL I got from Ms Renuka did respond in very weird ways or not at all. Everything got delayed and I eventually took them off their duty.

If you want to clear your container in Port Klang/Malaysia, this is my recommendation: Get in touch with Trio Nation-Wide Transport/Vanessa.
Mobile/Whatsapp: +60162987705
Email: Vane...@lgcresources.com

As Ms Renuka on the indian side, Vanessa did a very proper job in Malaysia, if I would have known her earlier, the shipment would have been around 1200 USD in total. We used a 20 feet container, no crate, the bike got lashed straight to the container. There would be more space obviously, so if you go with 2 or 3 bikes you'll save some cash - but: customs in Malaysia will still be expensive and costs per bike I think. Please feel free to contact me for further details, good luck and safe travels!!

The price is approx for one bike, so we payed in total 730 USD in New Zealand and 250 USD in Australia for Quarantine appointment and Carnet de Passage admin fees for the two bikes. 

We built the crates ourself (got wooden bases from the BMW store in Auckland for free and just made them a bit smaller for our XT660 bikes).

Matt is a very helpful guy and everything was super easy. We did not have an agent on the Australian side but everything went smooth. Important is to REALLY clean those bikes and the gear as the inspection is really tough. 

The only bad thing was that Malaysian side didn't know anything about Australian side. So no Info regarding the company handling the bike in Australia and no info about the formalities in Australia.

Details in the blog-post.

I paid for an entire pallet. I could’ve put another big bike (BMW R1200GS) or 4 small bikes on the pallet and saved money. I exchanged emails with Rocio and his team prior to my departure. The day after new year’s, Irode my bike to the cargo terminal in Panama City at 8 am.  The folks there walked me through the entire process. It took 1-2 hours to complete the paperwork, make payments, and get the bike all packed up. The cargo crew let me watch and take photos of the process. Afterward they contacted me to let me know the bike was on the plane at noon and would reach Bogota around 1:20 pm. Great customer service on the Panama City side. They secured and wrapped the bike like it was their own.

On the Bogota side it took about 7 hours to get the bike. Most of that time was waiting in customs for someone to look at my paperwork. However both the cargo crew and customs personnel were nice and helpful. Just too much waiting to get through the process on the destination side. 

very easy to ship and receive. they send a man with us for the custom paper. we have nothing to do except sign the custom paper. we leave the bike in the afternoon and at 1 o'clock in the afternoon the day after the bike was in bogota.