Shipments done by Travellers
The HU Shipping Database!
From THIS page, you can find details of shipments ALREADY MADE by travellers, both air and sea, so you can plan your own shipment.
For each shipment, the details include Shipping Date, Cost, Shipper Contact details and a Description of the experience, often including very detailed and extremely useful information about the requirements for crating or the paperwork involved at the destination location.
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Usage: Enter one or more of the fields, as you wish. Blank field means "all". Be sure to use correct country names, e.g. "United Kingdom" not UK or England. Unfortunately "united states" (united states of america doesn't work) gets United Kingdom as well, just work down to the bottom or last page. Not case-sensitive. Results sorted by newest first.
Shipment: From Panama City, Panama to Bogota, Colombia - January, 2006
507-238-4326
Shipment: From Port Said, Egypt to Mumbai (Nhava Sheva), India - January, 2006
35,Sultan Hussein
P.O.Box:25
Alex.-Egypt
Tel. 03 4864557-4877154-4879181
fax. 03 4863999-4870171-mob.:0123802623
Mr.Magdy-Alexandria was a friendly bloke,despite how busy he was!Another story for the Port Said office...pretty incompetant,if the photocopy machine ran out of paper or jammed,the WHOLE office stopped whatever they where doing and crowded around it...
It would take maybe three weeks to even fatham out the customs proccess,so i used a recomended runner...took him FIVE days(once he got his thumb out his.....)
Knowbody starts until ten,ten-thirty so by the time i sorted my own gate-pass out(anytime between twelve & two)Customs close at TWO-THIRTY!Same procces tommorrow!
Anyway,one week later and one missed ship!!(The container waited two weeks at the terminal,which i HAD to pay extra for-of course!!)
We met a Private Cop who was a excellant source of information-shame we met him too late,But heres some VERY Reccomended shipping addresses in Port-Said:
Inchcape Shipping Services Ltd.
Port-Said center building,
23 july&abu el feda st.
6th floor office no.62
Tel.+20663327732
Mobile.+20123919668
Fax.+20663351531
www.iss-shipping.com
Mitchill JR.shipping Co.
(S.A.E.)
Mohamed Mahmoud&Mahmoud Sidki st.
Mahrousa building.
P.O.Box 1271 Port-Said.
E-Mail. Mitj...@idsc.net.eg
Delmar Marine Transport.
9 El Safa st.
Port Tawfik-Suez.
Tel.062 336002-3
Fax.062 336001
17 Abd El M.Regad & El Cashe st.
Port-Said.
Tel.066 236520-340253
E-Mail. del...@Interlink-eg.com
Leader Group.Ltd.
13 El Comhoria & El Nasr st.
Port-Said.
Tel(&fax) 2066 243350
E-Mail.(Cairo) Cai...@leadergroup.net
Hope these companies come in use for some-one!!
After flying Alex-Mumbai(497US$ for two-Air Arabia) i went to WIAA & sorted out the Proof of authentisity of my carnet...what a palava!!I met an English lad with a Land-Rover who had to pay 2000rs.for the letter...i paid 1500rs."because a motorbikes smaller"says Mr.Magauwee(Mr.unfriendly!)Oh yeah-
NO RECIEPT!!!
TOTAL COST:
500US$ container
105US$ lifting charges
8000eg.pounds clearing agent(runner)
5300eg.pounds loading expenses(from another container yard!)& de-murrage(for the extra 2 week wait!!)
15000rs.Contessa Clearing(Mr.Jay Parab)OBS.His"fixed rate"has increased considerably,BUT i recieved the bike in a record time(For Nava Sheva)of ONE DAY!!!
10535rs.Seabridge Maritime.2000rs.delivery order charge.
400rs.processing fee.
250rs.service tax.
1000rs.stamp duty.
6385rs.term.handling chages.
450rs.washing charge(cont.)
50rs.stamp duty franking.
4034rs.Seabird Marine. 3300rs.handling&trpt.
60rs.cargo handling charges.
300rs.cont.ground rent.
374rs.srv.tax@10.20%
After totting all this up it certainly put me on my arse for a while!I'de read in many previous entries how expesive India is but........32000 Swedish Kroner,which is roughly between 2500&2800quid!!Shit-Pomme Frite!!
I would certainly reccomend Mr.Jay Parab,Laurel&Hardy(his runners)Expensive...but very clued up!You can find him at:Contessa Forwarders
Office:29,Imperial chamber,
2nd floor,Wilson rd,
Ballard Estate,
Mumbai-400 001.
Tel.2613101
Fax.2630583
Mob.9867309777
If your looking for secure parkingIn Mumbai,just around the corner from Contessa is a Great bloke,Kevin who runs a petrol station,Karfule Private Ltd.
i also serviced & washed the bike.
100rs.per night parking(use your own padlock)
100rs.pressure wash
Just take the No.3 bus from Colaba,ask for "new customs house" & jump of around the corner from it!
Shipment: From Shimonoseki, Japan to Pusan, Korea (South) - January, 2006
Everyone at the gate is friendly and professional. Able to help you to arrange in few hours your picking up on the ferry.
From Japan to South Korea
http://www.partireper.it/eng_2005chapt13.htm
http://www.partireper.it/2005chapt13.htm
It takes 1 night.
Meals and food is not included. Public shower and economy class let you sleep on the floar on a mat and cuscin.
SUGOI!
If you have a bike, you are gonna be the first one to getoon and get off the ferry to get fast the clearences.
South korean custom check every singol belonging you have in your lagguages. Watch out!
Shipment: From Incheon, Korea (South) to Dalian, China - January, 2006
DANGER: Even if i did take this ferry from South Korea to China, it doesn't mean you're gonna avoid all the custom problem to get your bike in to China. If you have the proper documents and stuff it might be wasy, if not, good luck. In my case i had to envolve the embassy and arrange a shipment from China to Thaialnd to avoid chinese governament to take my motorcycle forever away from me as a punishment for my unpolite geting to China without proper permission!!
You better contact my friend Jun.
REMEMBER: he helped me as a friend. He doesn't have to help you as a duty, but maybe he can give you some advice. He got improved about ferry to China after he met me.
He is also a couchsurfer so maybe you can stay at his place and have a free accomodation and he could take you to the custom office and help you to arrange the picking up on the ferry.
Email: eter...@hotmail.com
Profile HC: http://secure.hospitalityclub.org/hc/travel.php?cid=oneworldtraveller
Ferry from South Korea to China.
http://www.partireper.it/eng_2006chapt1.htm
http://www.partireper.it/2006chapt1.htm
It takes 1 night.
Food and meal are not included.
Public stuff surrounded by chinese means DIRTY!!
Shipment: From Buenos Aires, Argentina to Brussels, Belgium - January, 2006
5480-0049
Great service, bring the bike to the airport.They tie it down on a pallet for you. Then go to customs in the same building. Then you can walk to the passenger terminal in 2 minutes. Could not be more easy!
Had to pay also 86.5 EURO in Brussels
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