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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NOTE: This is not our normal view, but Google's API has somehow broken the view with a map and everything nicely laid out. We will fix it as soon as possible, but it's a very big job for us. Any Google API experts feel free to contact us! For now this will have to do, sorry.
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 Quito, Ecuador - January, 2001
Conrado Young, Executive Director & General Manager
AEROSERVICIOS, S.A.
Via Cincuentenario, final de Calle 50
Ave. Cuarta Sur San Francisco
Chalet No. 15A
Panama City, Panama
tel. (507) 226 7955 / 441 4884 (Colon)
fax (507) 226 7605 / 441 4092 (Colon)
GIRAG, Panama S.A.
Cargo Airport, close to the international airport in Tolumen.
507-238-4289, 507-238-4091,
Fax 507-238-4417
At the moment we are staying in Quito and are waiting for our 'Carnet de passages'from Germany. We sent the bike with GIRAG from Panama City to Quito and had to pay US$500. The transport was without problems.
We tried 3 days to get the bike out of customs without a Carnet, but there was no way. And so we decided to order this in Germany. To make the time of waiting shorter, we studied a little bit Spanish at a school. The school was very good and maybe our new knowledge about the Spanish language will help us at the next border crossings to save time.
Shipment: From St. Gallen, Switzerland to Buenos Aires, Argentina - January, 2001
In Austria:
Kurt Vetter
Gebr
Shipping was excellent, until harbour of Buenos Aires. To get the bikes out of the harbour is a very costly job. We paid another US$ 650( for two bikes ), simply speaking it was a rip-off.
They did a good job (in Buenos Aires), even though it was rather expensive. The shipper had to contact a customs agent. Both gentlemen were busy for more than 5 hours ( 10 manhours ) to get hold of the bikes. I guess it's not the shipper fault, it's the result of disastrous organisation in Bs. As., besides the fact, that Argentina is one of the most expensive places on this globe.
Shipment: From Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand - January, 2001
AGS
Suite 2, level 5, Botany Road, Banksmeadow ( South Sydney), ask for Kerry
phone: 02-96664555
Fax: 02-96664226
...After 3 beautiful months in Australia and after 18.500 kilometres it is time for my to see something else, New Zealand. I ship the bike at 16 january from Sydney to Auckland, this boat-trip takes about 4 days. I ship the bike with the company AGS international. This company is specialised to remove cargo between Australia and New Zealand (2 times a week). They are using containers to do this and I can put my bike in one of this containers between the other cargo. It is not necessary to crate the bike but it is lways beter to do this. The price for shipping is 130 A$ for 1 cubic metres and this was the most cheap price I could find.
My crate is 2.4 cubic metres and I paid for this 312 A$ + paperwork 46 A$ = Total : 358 A$ for shipping the bike to Auckland. A crate for my bike I found in a BMW motorbike shop on the Princess Highway.
I fly on 15 january from Sydney to Auckland and this is with Air-China (?) and also this was the most cheap ticket I could find and cost my 430 A$. (The same ticket for Ansett, Quantas and Air-New Zealand was more expensive).
Shipment: From Rotterdam, Netherlands to Perth, Australia - January, 2001
Mainport Forwarding BV
MOTORTRANSPORT.NL
Den Hamweg 30
3089 KK Rotterdam
Postbus 54534
3008 KA Rotterdam
Tel. +31 (0)10 428 4347 (7 days per week 24 hours per day)
Fax +31 (0)10 495 4427
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KLR-650 with all the gear on it: 220kg, they charged by the volume of the bike, and they gave me a huge discount.
Packaging and taking care of the bike was very impressive. Sr. Young was most helpful, and made lots of phone calls to find a good and safe way to ship my bike. The cost of the bike shipping can be reduced considerably, just read the shipping info for Buenos Aires - Frankfurt I did a little later with Lufthansa. The system is the same for KLM, too.