Shipments done by Travellers

I used Peter Lambert at BikesAbroad for my shipping. He did a great job sorting me out. I had lots of questions and he answered all of them via email. He quoted the entire price including pick up at BMW dealer in Auckland, sea shipping, entrance into Australia, and all fees include an extra week of storage in Sydney. I quoted with a couple others and he is competative and professional.

Here are the numbers he quoted. No additional charges. AUS Dollars

Overseas Pick up $74
Overseas Terminal Handling $36

export Clearance $115

sea frieght $283

port service charge $220

Destination Handling $185

Quarantine Attendance $250

Agency $150

Cartage $95

Storage 1 week $60

These are all the charges. I crated my bike at BMW Auckland in a crate they gave me. and then I picked up the bike in Sydney at importer office and took the bike out of the crate. No messing around with my time at all.

Our 2009 Suzuki DL1000SE V-Strom was crated by Can-Crate Industries Ltd. in Burnaby, Canada. Contact les_...@cancrate.com

Crated machine pick up arranged by Kent Line Sales Limited on behalf of the trucking company Day & Ross (604-431-8122) & taken to carrier's western terminus in Surrey, Canada.

Our bike arrived in good order on the day promised. Great service.

Dakar Motos were great ! Sandra and Xavier will help you all the way. It takes a few days to get the papr work done which they give directions and detailed info on where and how to do it. When you take the bike to the airport you will need to have to take mirrors off and disconnect the batteries. I kept my front wheel on .Plenty of people there to help. Bike is strapped on a pallet and covered in plastic. Picking up the bike in Cape Town was a breeze . Paper work took less then 15 minutes and your bike is waiting in the next building. You can do this all by yourself no handlers etc. 

Took time to arrange all details needed, as we started 6 months in advance and Tony works a weekly schedule.

2 weeks before needing the transport he took all our details and confirmed the price. When we arrived all the paper work was complete. He introduced us to the man who would ride the bikes onto the ship. We left our keys and departed.

We missed the previous Saturday boat from Penang to Belawan with Mr. Lim, and he was not shure there would be one the week after so we took a chance to go to Port Klang near Kuala Lumpur.

We wasted a lot of time trying to deal with Izainil mentionned in these pages and he ended up just wanting more money. His services are not required and he became very impolite and scamy.

We showed up one day before (Monday) with the bikes and Shirley from JetStar said they needed to mesure the door of the ferry to make shure our bikes would pass through it. At first on Tuesday morning they said it would not fit so I asked if I could go mesure myself and it was shure possible to enter through that door with a little twist :)

We needed to have Carnets and Indo visas before we could hop on the boat.

The bikes handles were a bit too wide but it was possible to swing them through the door and park the bikes in the alley of the ferry, after everybody got in. So we had to wait until last minute to load them.

We loaded 1-F800 GS and 1-F650 GS in that small alley, boxes and luggages taken off.

Shirley wanted to get paid before in order to issue tikets: 1000 RM per bike plus 110 RM per person. If the bikes did not fit the door, no reimbursment.

We took the bikes through Malaysian customs and waited on the dock to load them at last with free help from the boat employees

The boat left 2 hours later than planned and the crossing took 4 hrs so we arrived around 5pm in Tanjung Balai. Steep landing in shaky staircase, the locals asked for 400 000 IRP to help take the bikes out. Customs there are not use to it but they were very friendly and stamped the Carnet after we cleared security check.

We left customs at around 7 pm riding and smiling.

No letter from Ikuatan Motor Indonesia was required, although we asked for it 1 week before and still did not have it prior to crossing. We received it by email the day we were on the boat, but nobody asked for it officialy. If you want to contact them don't bother writing they do not answer anyways, she's the person to talk to:

Patricia Adriance,
plan...@yahoo.com
+62 215731 102