Shipments done by Travellers

Hello everyone,

I'm doing at the moment a motorcycle of 20 months and I recently had to send my bike by plane from Kathmandu in Nepal to Bangkok in Thailand. I would like to share my experience.

The sending by air from Nepal to Thailand is a classic, you will find in Kathmandu two companies: Eagle Eyes Export and Eagle Export. Both companies are in the same street in the tourist district of Thamel.

After contacted them by email, I quickly received a detailed response from the 2 companies.

The estimates were similar, although Eagle Export was slightly cheaper. I visited the two companies and finally opted for Eagle Export.

Eagle Export is managed by Suraj, a man who worth to be known and who speaks a perfect English. Very quickly and without wooden language, he answered all my questions about the shipment and especially the price. No charges have been hidden and everything has been clearly explained.

Eagle Exports handles everything with an impressive professionalism.

The shipment is organized as follows:

1) Accurate measurement of the dimensions of the motorcycle

2) Estimation of the shipping price and choice of a date

3) A few days later, you go to the cargo area of ​​the airport, the various parts of the box were ready. Within 2 small hours, the motorcycle was crated (every centimeter has been removed to reduce the volume of the box). The paperwork has been handled in parallel and the customs came to check everything.

4) The bike is gone at the due date without any concern

Everything has been done quickly and without a hitch. It was clear that the team was used to do it.

Suraj has even managed my flight ticket. I tried by myself to find the most attractive price but he offered me an even more competitive ticket.

But what is even more awesome with Eagle Export is that the service does not stop with the shipment of the motorcycle. You really create links!

Suraj offered me quickly his generous hospitality. I slept several nights in his house in the north of Kathmandu where I met his adorable family. I have been invited to eat many times and enjoyed his valuable tips to explore the city. He even helped me to organize the rest of my trip. Suraj is very generous and always responds positively when you ask for his help.

My bike is a BMW 700GS, the weight of the sending was 363 Kgs and it cost me about 600 euros.

I highly recommend!

Useless. Bike arrived damaged and they and the insurer refused to pay. DO NOT USE.

Bikes Abroad organised everything for me, including supplying the crate, taking my bike apart and putting it in the crate, clearing Australian customs in Melbourne, shipping the bike to Singapore then forwarding onto Durban, organising South African customs clearance, destruction and removal of the crate in Durban.  The only criticism I have of Bikes Abroad is that they like to bend the truth a little sometimes, they told me there was a direct ship from Melbourne to Durban that left every fortnight, this was not true as I had to ship the bike via Singapore, and at the last minute they wanted another $120 to post my carnet to South Africa to get customs clearance, this should have been included in the all inclusive quote, I had no choice but to pay the extra cost to keep the process going.  Other than those criticisms the whole process was relatively smooth, next time I would get all correspondence with Bikes Abroad in writing, but would definitely use them again

Cost includes tax and insurance of $7000 declared value. It was inflated a bit because they placed the crate on an 8x4 pallet to use the forklift on the long end, but it was still a great deal. Declared weight was 700 lbs, but the volumetric weight was 1,222 so it didn't matter. The shipment was dropped off at the warehouse and picked up from the destination warehouse in Vancouver.

The drop-off warehouse is at 5653 McAdam rd. Mississauga ON L4Z1N9

The pick-up warehouse is at 10239 Grace Road, Vancouver Dock BC V3V3V7

Shipping volume of the crate on the pallet was 88x48x50 in.

For more detailed information please visit our website. We listed all the steps you have to go through on the Australian and the New Zealand side with contact details, GPS-Coordinates and many more.

http://www.timetoride.de/l%C3%A4nderinfos/fazit-australien/

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