Shipments done by Travellers

Delivered bike and crate to dockside and put together there. Guys on dock very helpful - finding other bits of timber etc. Just managed to squeeze on to a flat rack behind an overland truck belonging to friends of ours (for beer money - can't be bad).

Price quoted is as given to us to ship separately (assuming 3 cubic metres which is about right). Costs listed include dock processing, tying down etc. We'll come back with the Argy charges later (if it gets here!)

This company is really reliable, they did the land transfer included from Munich to Bremerhaven, I did everything by email without phone calls and also without any telephone calls. You just need to give the motorcycle with the keys, that is very important because they transfer the motorcycle to the boats by riding. If you don't give the keys they charge you more because they need to use hoists or other way.

Unusual but cheap place to ship back to Britain. Demerara Shipping exists mainly to ship their product (rum) to Europe but take cargo, too. I used them to send personal belongings home 7 years ago with no problems.

Guyana is a major producer of quality hardwoods and so you can knock together your own exotic wood crate for next to nothing. In fact, while I was putting it together in the warehouse, their maintenance joiner ambled over and said that if I'd just turned up there with the bike, they'd have knocked up a crate for me.

Ships leave every three weeks and take 2 weeks to Ipswich - Sods law, I got there just at the wrong time and shipping will take the maximum time. Still, it gives me a few weeks to work on the receiving agents in Britain to try and get the costs down at that end.

Working with Carnet de Passage!

My motorbike was crated in a motorbike store which costed me quite a lot, just delivered motorbike there with all my stuff (180AU$)!! Finally crate was
too big and costed me again more money. Was a crate of a Harley. The crate was picked up by World Wide Shipping with no extra cost because the store
where the bike was crated was in the neighbeourhood, otherwise you pay again costs for pick-up so look for a place in the neighbourhood where your
freighter is.

Motorbike BMW F650, 3,432 m3 (instead of 2,636m3)

Freight and shipping cost : 575 AU$ (+- 300 Euro)

Insurance (necessary ??!!): 133 AU$

Total cost : 708 AU$ (+-400 Euro)

Don't forget costs in the country of arrival:

Cleve & Zonen (Antwerp) : 117,37 Euro

Total OZ -> B : +- 500 Euro

The maintenance joiner on the docks offered to make a crate up for me after I'd finished! May be worthwhile showing your face down there before you start. Timber is cheap as chips in Guyana, though, if you want to make up your own.

Ships leave about every 3 weeks to the UK, but can be held up as they need to load in dry weather (most of the cargo is bulk rice or sugar).

Bikes go in crates loose, not in containers but are within a sealed hold on the ship. Bear this in mind when building crate as they will be lifted with
straps, not forklifts.

Clearance in UK is