Shipments done by Travellers

I shipped my BMW1200GS from Panama to Cape Towm in January 2011. It cost $2000 from the Panama side and when I got to Cape Town it cost another $1000 to get it out. It took 62 days from when I last saw it in Panama to when I collected it in Cape Town. I think the actually sea time was 53 days.

The company in Panama were very helpful and reasonably efficient. They hadn't shipped many motorbikes but did their level best to help. They picked me up and dropped me off when I need it and helped with the paper work. The staff spoke good English.

In Cape Town I dealt with ILA. And they were fantastic.

Cindy Hendricks
International Liner Agencies
E.M. Shelving Building
14 Manhattan Street
Airport Industria
Tel: (021) 386-5553
Fax no : (021) 386-5554
E-Mail: cind...@ila.co.za

All in all it went really well. Many people had warned me about shipping. Especially as the crate had to go from Panama to Rotterdam and then change ships for South Africa. But it all went well and I would recommend using either of these companies.

This was a shipment of two adventure motorcycles.
Packaging was arranged by Greg and included in price.
The bike were left at Berklay premises on December 8th and collected from Manchester airport services on December 17th, exactly as quoted. Good Guys!

Shipped a DL1000 Vstrom via Los Angeles to Heidelberg, via Hamburg and Frankfurt Germany.
Trailered the bike to LA from Ladysmith BC to take advantage of a west coast container shipment. We were going down that way anyway.
Stefan has you provide all the documentation with the bike and a deposit to hold a space to him in advance, then balance before the bike is shipped. You require alot of documents to be 'notarized' so that he can act as your agent. We spent money with a lawyer only to find out that the logistics company we dropped the bike with had a notary on site that could have done it much cheaper. Oh well, live and learn.
Stefan ships with re-usable metal crates, everything you want to go should be packed up with the bike, we had panniers stuffed with riding gear. All ships for 1 low price.
He has had shipments from Vancouver in past and more recently, and does a R&R shipment out of Orlando Florida.
Communication could be a little better, but I would strongly recommend him.

On the 10th of November I flew my bike from Sydney to Auckland with Qantas, the process was easy, the guy's on the counter put me in touch with a dangerous goods firm who worked with me, as I wanted to get the bike down there on a dry day, as it has to be clean, they charged Au$125, I took the bike down on the day, disconnected the battery, had a quarter of a tank of petrol.
The Qantas staff, weighed the bike 320kg, then I left the bike in there warehouse. Went back and did the paperwork, paid Au$1100 and walked away!
The bike flew in the day after me, I went down to New Zealand freight after completing the carnet in the customs office in the centre of Auckland, the quarantine guy took five minutes to look at the bike, NZ$25.50, NZ freight charged NZ$30 for paperwork and the bike was brought out! Qantas did a fantastic job strapping my bike into one of their containers, Simple easy service!

Shipped with EB Cargo and did on my own thru customs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When I arrived there I went strait to Iberia storage and pay the fee. After this I got a surprise. They charge me 2 days storage. Sunday and monday that was bank holiday.
Brian told me that airport start charging storage fee after 2 days.
My first cote with brian was £725, later on he charge more £130 about my crate size and weight mistake plus another fee to xray in the airport delivery.
The crate I made from the old BMW one.(to Honda FMX 650) I rebuild it to my bike, getting L 180, H 98, W 50. Weight was 226Kg. I went in casemaker and they got me the DG certificate with the cost of £ 40.

EB Cargo Shipping 949
Ezeiza expenses (AR$ 759) 115
Iberia handling (AR$ 300) 45
Danger Good Certificate 40