Shipments done by Travellers

very good

Woman, travelled on my own 8 months New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania.

Shipped my motorbike (BMW F650) to NZ/Auckland, flew it from Auckland to OZ/Sydney and shipped it back from Sydney to BE/Antwerp.

Technical info :

used a crate from BMW dealer (RMS-Halle)

crate+motorbike: 280 kg, 2,636 m3

cost per m3 : 90 USD

cost : 2,636 x 90 USD x 0,961 (USD->Euro) = 227,99 euro
+ cost doc,customs,... 75 euro = 302,99 euro

I took insurance 87,50 euro (expensive!), necessary ??

So total cost : 302,99 + 87,50 = 390 euro

Don't forget that you have to pay costs to the freighter who unloads the container. In my case this was the company Oceanbride in Auckland, I payed
280,75 + 73,13 NZ$ = 353 NZ$ (+- 180 euro)

Price included crating, expertly done by All Freight Packers near Heathrow.

Normal sailing frequency is weekly and is of 3 week duration, but I had an extra week added by storms.

This price is for bike of 2.39 mtrs.cubed. For a crated bike I would have paid approx 500 USD.

Add 300 USD for BA costs, and follow the well documented procedures on the site to get your bike.

Size in Inch: 88x37x45 (standard BMW box)
Weight in kg: 348kg
Delivery in LA @ DHX: 11th Jan 2002
Bill of Lading: 16th Jan 2002
Arrival Container: 02nd Feb 2002
Crate available for pickup: 06th Feb 2002
Total time without bike: 26 days.

Shipping a NZ-registered bike from US to Singapore. I entered USA through the border from Mexico. I received a stamp in my passport, but no paperwork related to my bike was requested. Therefore I was able to ship the bike as personal effects from USA to Singapore. No problems with customs on the US side.

Note: DHX only accepted the crate as personal affairs. They do not know what paper work would be required if it would be declared as export of a US registered motorcycle.

Mr. Lee made an all in price for us to ship the bikes. It was 500 RM /m3 (132 US$/m3). The price included crate and crating, all the custom clearance, transport and port fees. (the cubicmeter price is about 65 US$).

The bikes needed to be fumigated and that costs 150 RM (40 US$).

So if you can keep the volume small it is a good deal. We managed to put our two Suzuki DR600's in ONE crate of 2.94 m3.

The shipping takes about 20 days and add 3 days to deliver the bikes before ship departure.

In Auckland, New Zealand, we had to pay 285 NZ$ (115 US$) for port handling charges. For quarantine services (MAF=Ministery of Agriculture and Forestry)we paid 165 NZ$ (66 US$). We did the custom clearing ourselves.