Shipments done by Travellers

There are no ferries going form isreal to Greece. They say ferries will be reinstalled in 2004.

We took a Ro-ro boat (roll-on, roll of), which is a cargo boat that can take up to 12 persons. It goes from Haifa to Limassol (Cyprus) to Athens one or twice a week. We had a private cabin for 2 persons with a good bed. The food was terrible!

We just rolled on to the ship an 3 nights and 2 days later we were in Athens.

Cheers,

Corne

I shipped my GS1150 from Rio to Limassol Cyprus. I paid 700 USD for the shipping and crate and 480 reals for the paper work. The paper work was done by Fabio Andre tel 55 21 22539734, and took him one week.
Both Fabios are very friendly and helpfull. Unfortunately they dont speak english, but there is one woman at Ecu lines, Monica, if I remember well, that speaks english.At the port it took just 2 hours.
I hope this is helpfull.

Shipping goes ones every 2 weeks so be carefull with your planning!

Consort is an excellent shippingline and is very friendly, speaks good english, crating is not necessairy and they even treat you a cuppa, shipping
has never been this easy!

Procedure:

- Book your space and do the paperwork at the office

- Clean bike thorouglhy for Oz quarrantine

- Deliver bike in warehouse

- Sign papers ad recieve Bill of Lading

- Finish!

Costs:

- Approx Aus$ 1.33 per kilo (weight not checked)

- Various docs and taxes Aus$ 78.00

Total was 436.56 kina or Aus$ 180.00

Approx 1 week later I picked up the bike in Townsville, procedure was:

- Go to shipping office and pick up signed Bill of lading

- Go to Customs and get your Carnett or Temp Import Permit sorted, make an
appointment with Quarrantine

- Customs and Quarrantine check bike (thouroughly, specially under mudguards
and lugage)

- With signed papers go back to office and get bike released

Quarrantine costs about Aus$ 100 per half an hour so give them a hand and unpack your lugage....

My dad works in the shipping industry (but not for these guys) and he recommended them to me.

These guys were extremely helpful, and very patient when my shipping date kept slipping. In the end I gave them no more than two days notice before
delivering the bike.

Helped me with the paperwork as well.

Everything went off without a hitch. I was picked up in Chcago and ferried to their warehouse - I even got some free petrol to get me to a filling station.

Can't recommend them highly enough. Mention my name when you contact them.

In Sidney I used the agent:

BTI logistics.
Unit 9.
2-12 Beauchamp Road.
Botany (Sidney)
02 9316 9500
Bus 309 goes there and back from Central Station

They are not very user-friendly but do have the best KG-price ($5,= australian) I let them mesure and make the crate... which turned out to be too big.

But... if you do this yourself, and get the KG-price and other cost on paper you could get the best deal in town.

In my case the afternoon before I had to fly the price suddenly went sky high... A serious talk with the director brought it down a bit again but still it was more then agreed on the day before (2650 against 2350... they wanted 2900)

Mr J Forder, who was very confortly absent spoke through the phone: Take it or leave it... knowing very well that I could not leave it without loosing my ticket.

In Chili I went to the airport International Carga, Lan Chile customer service where they gave me some papers, told me to pay usd 10 next door, come back for more papers and go to customs across the road. There they looked a bit mystified untill I showed my carnet. That they knew. We walked over to the crate, took a peek at the numbers and then I was given some more papers.

The customs officer took me to the busstop and told the driver where to kick me out. At the central customs office I got some more papers, went back to the cargo-warehouse and payed 4 day,s storage (usd 104) Then I received the crate and enough help to unpack it. They gave me an jerrycan and directed me to the fuelstation (5 min walk).

And... then I was on my way into Santiago...

It was simple and straightforward. The hole procedure took maybe 2 hours

A few tips:

Plan your flight before the weekend (storage costs) Don,t waste time with a Chile agent (customs is simple and helpful... I don't speak Spanish) Don't believe the "no worries" attitude from BTI logistics... Get them to write the quote down on paper and sign it! Tell BYI right away you have a carnet... They seem to think no one uses it duh!

Maarten