Shipments done by Travellers

We have handled bikes back and from Bogota to  Panama, Europe and Miami with success and very good feedback from Bikers.

The charges include:

• Air rate and airline charges from Panama to Bogota
• Destination charges in Bogota, included Customs handling.
• Customs  inspection handling in Bogota and Panama.

Special Instructions:

• Bike has to be clean and 1/4 fuel tank.
• Flights are from Tuesday to Friday , departing  between 7 am and 11 am, arriving at Bogota   maximun at 2 pm.
• Flights on Saturday, bike has to be taken on Friday before noon, and customs in Bogotá to be done on Monday (not holliday)
• Biker has to be available by the time the bike arrives in Bogota for clearance process, this means biker has to arrive first than the bike or the same day of the bike.

Timing for clearance process can take all  day long  ( since 8:00 am to 3 p.m) depending on customs inspections.  The idea is to begin process early in the morning, yet the time we meet with the biker will depend on the  day of arrival of the bike.

The one thing we learnt was not to put anything resembling personal belongings into any panniers, bags or crate because on arrival in Aust, customs and quarantine treated them as seperate shipments and inspected twice with resultant doubling of the charges which ended up at $780us also delaying the pick up by quite some time.

We were under time pressure and had to do everything within 2 weeks in response to a family problem in Aust.so could not shop around too much, as our original plan was to return to UK and reship from there. Cube relocations in Attard did the crate and we virtually left bike there the day before we left, they did a good job and also delivered to port when required. Shipping was as a part container to Melbourne so had to wait till it was filled. Insurance in Malta for a bike seemed impossible to find and we ran out of time so bike shipped without insurance.

By the way it is a 2006 Triumph Bonneville we were 2up with way too much luggage did 11000km through UK, Scotland and Europe from Belgium to Slovenia and down to Malta  in 7mths( 2 of which were in Malta) not much scope to do a lot of kms there.

By contrast from Aust. we used Dave Milligan of Get Routed and it could not have been easier, ride in and ride out, also was less than 1/2 price of getting it back.

So, Mexico City customs... nowhere near as bad as feared, just not a well trodden path.

I Airfreight cargo my motorcycle from Istanbul (Turkey) to Bangkok (Thailand). I used Skyline Freights & Logistics LLC. Perfect coordination of logistics. From the initial phone call, Neil Bhandari answered all my concerns. Real proffesional, what they said, they did. It was great to work with such caring people for the shipment of my motorcycle (Kawasaki Versys 1000, with side and top cases) was delivered safe and on time. They also took care of crating, customs, temporary import documents.  I recommend this transport company to any biker needing airfreight cargo transport.