Shipments done by Travellers

Quoted price includes everything, thus also including the airport taxes in Entebbe and the local clearing agent's fees.

Of the many companies promoting themselves as 'worldwide motorcycle shippers' that I contacted in Germany, only GS-Sportreisen actually replied with an offer.
One shipper outside germany, listed on the hubb, did reply, but his best offer was 50% more expensive.

I didn't make a crate, the motorcycle was transported on a palet (provided by the shipper) with only the handlebar tied lengthwise to reduce the width to 60cm.

In entebbe it took a week to get the bike out of customs, since I imported the motorbike. For travellers with a carnet or TIP, it should go in one day.

Interfreight have moved from their old address(accross the street),very easy to find in George-town.
I found a crating company 2 streets behind Thambu Chetty,they did a good job,sturdy crate,but maybe a little heavy!(completely closed)Once crated,it was fumigated(24hr proccess,which took mine 5minutes....not a sign of powder!!oh well i got a nice piece of paper) Interfreight's own truck (They also have a warehouse for storage)took us out to custom's(side of the crate must be opened for frame/engine no.)
I read both out to friendly officer's who were very interested in where we'd been in India!
Close the crate....job's done!
A good place to stay in George town is Hotel Indian Palace..250 rupees night and there's room for maybe 10 bike's in his foyer...SAFE parking.

All prices are in Indian Rupee
Crating...2,500
Fumigation..550
Ocean freght 2.5 cbm...10,112
lcl charges...225
tranaportation charges...500
stuffing charges/inspectin...2,000
customs assessment charge...2,000
documentation expenses...2,000
Interfreights fee...5,000
tax...612

Total...25,949
All in all,around US$600 very reasonable!!Prasanna really know's ALL there is to know about shipping....DONT waste time shopping around(like i did)!!....use him!!
The bike shipped on the 7th april,changed container in Singapore and arrived in Auckland on 30th!
28th,I did the customs (on customs street)10 minutes and the carnet was stamped...no problems,even though the vessel was still out at sea!!??
M.a.f straight across the hall from customs,recieved the biosecurity authority/clearance certificate.
I did the clearance myself,recieved the delivery order from Mainfreight int.Ltd
port service charges..$N.Z.135,00
delivery order..$N.Z.45,00
N.Z.forestry fee??$N.Z.11,25
terminal security fee..$N.Z.7,50
admin.fee..$N.Z.10,00
gst...$N.Z.2,66
M.A.F inspection..$N.Z.67,00

Total cost in $N.Z.278,41

Greame Lee is a really good man. We recommend him very high. He really know what he does and there were no "surprise" in the end. ;-)
From the first contact to the departure of your bike it is possible to do it easy in a week. He give you all information you will need. He know nice guys from Dangerous Goods. No problems all the way.

You will use a crate and here he can't help you, but when we were in Darwin, there were a mount of old used crates at te local Kawasaki Dealer, he also have a big business with Quads. With this information you will find him. Our crate costs 30 AUS$.

Departures from Darwin to K.L. were every saturday.

But there is one problem: All the cargo-airlines have a stop in Singapure and the bureaucracy there must be terrible. We know, it now... Because there was one copy of a paper left they stopped our bike for 5 days! Without telling anybody.
So we wait in K.L. and nobody know what is happened with our bike.... In the end Graeme Lee sort it all out for us and then it was easy to pick up the bike at the airport in K.L.

The pickup was only 14 US$ and a thing from 3 hours. The airport-staff were very helpful and friendly. Nobody try to get some extra-money from us. It was great!

The costs:

1,55 AUS$ per Kilo
15 AUS$ Airwaybill Fee
185,90 AUS$ MAA Miscellaneus - DUE Agent
253,80 AUS$ MCC Miscellaneus - DUE Carrier
180 AUS$ Dangerous Goods

14 US$ in K.L. for Customs Inspection

Dropped my bike off in NY, NY and it was quickly packed up with the empty panniers still on which saved me some luggage allowance. They were very friendly and knowledgeable about the whole process, and after signing a few forms I left the bike with them.

It arrived in london 6 days later as requested and was nicely secured on a metal sled. I took off the restraints and put some petrol in, started it and rode back home. The clearing process cost me

I rode the bike from New Orleans to Houston where Panalpina's main facility in Louisiana is located. The bike (Gold Wing) was turned over to Panalpina in Houston on 1 March 2005. The bike had to be crated using PRESSURE TREATED WOOD as per NZ requirement. Panalpina built the crate at a cost of US$960 (included in total cost cited above). I arrived in Aauckland early in the morning of 14 march -05 and learned that my crate had arrived ahead of me so I went to NZ Customs with a Panalpina agent that same moning and cleared the bike in less than 10 minutes. Since I had a Carnet (mandatory) there were no temporary import permit, vehicre registration or other formalities required. I don't remember what Panalpina, Auckland, charged for their "import" services but it was not unreasonable. -
I was disappointed in Panalpina, New Orleans, in one respect: They could not find a air carrier that would take the bike uncrated. (Here in the US the airlines will not deal with an individual after 9/11 so you are forced to use a freight forwarder).