Shipments done by Travellers

Vehicle:
The bike is a side-car, a k100 with an Ural. The overall size is 6 cubic meters. It is french registered, with a carnet, but no mention of the side car itself.
This does affect the price, when it comes to the Indian cudstom inspection. To put it nicely, you pay to make it easier. It affects the price of the crating too: you need a more robust structure.

Agency:
Mr Britto was our contact. He was extremely nice, and definitely honest. The whole agency payed a lot of attention so that the shipping would go nice and smooth. If you say you were sent by Vincent and Prune, things should go fine.
Finding the agency was tricky. When you come from the north of Rajaj Salai, after the court of justice, you go straight. At some point, the road goes 45°, with a bridge on your right. You go straight, and don't follow the main road, turn 180° under the bridge. You have the entrance of the building on your left, not even 50 meters from there.

Documentation and crating:
We arrived a bit late on the first day. The guy dealing with the bike clearance was only able to clear the bike the next day. Most of the paperworks were made. During the preparation by mail, we had to send the following documents:
- Passport copy
- Fly ticket copy
- Carnet de passage copy
- Motorcycle insurance copy
- Motorcycle french documents
So, day 2: we went to the container freight station with the bike in the evening. Everything was made to have a very superficial custom inspection. We never managed to read the engine number because of the side car. But it did not seem to be too much of a problem. The wood for the crating arrived quite late (at about 6pm). We left the container freight station at about 9pm. Next day, we got the carnet back, as well as the bill of lading. And we paid cash: they do not accept credit cards. One more thing, we were lucky they needed containers on Malaysian side, so we did not pay any freight.

Cost:
Freight charges, INR
Freight charges, 0
BL charges, 500
sub total, 500
,
custom clearence charges, INR
CFS charges, 1500
Shipping bill expense, 2000
Examination process, 3000
Loading and unloading, 700
Handling charges, 5500
Crating, 9000
Agency charges, 750
Service tax, 78
Sub total, 22528
,
Destination charges, INR
THC, 340
LCL, 2380
Manifest EDI, 410
Delivery order, 1090
Agency Fee, 1770
Cost recovery, 70
Sub total, 6060
,
TOTAL: , 29.000 INR plus a few things I don't remember amounting roughly 700 INR

PORT KLANG CHARGES 77 MYR (CFS charges)

Getting the bike:
We had left the bike at Chennai Port two weeks before we got it back in Port Klang.
We decided to do the clearance by ourselves, and it was dead easy. We first went to the agency who had our delivery order, to pick it up.
We had to pick up the bike in terminal 1, but the container stayed about 4 days in terminal 2...
We took a taxi from Imperial hotel (next to the bus station) to the custom house (10 MYR). Custom house, second floor, just ask for the place where they deal with ATA carnets. There, they do all the stamping, and here you go... I insist: DIY! the agency in Port Klang charges 290$ for that!
Somebody drove us to the port. There, we went to the proper warehouse, got the documents sorted. Two steps:
- ask where you leave one of the pages of the DO
- ask where you do the documentation.
People at the port and at the custom house where amazingly helpful.
We uncrated ourselves, and gave 5 MYR to a guy to clear the wood. In warehouse B4, you have a huge bin for that, just behindf (which could be useful if you were to do the crating yourself from KL).

Helmets are compulsary in Malaysia, even in the side-car, was told my girlfriend when driving off the port.

Hope this was helpful. Any question, don't hesitate to contact me.

It was everthing very easy. Eduardo help by every step.
It includet ten Crate and all fees in Lima.
The shiping was to Hamburg harbor.
From Hamburg harbor to ower home (600 Km) it is an other 650€.

The actual shipping company is Walhenius Wilhensen. I would have been globally satisfied if only my fog lights had not been stolen somewhere between Zeebrugge and Charleston. I was so excited when I got the bike, that didn't seem to have any marks that it took me 2 days to notice they were missing.
Anyway, appart from this, my critics would be:
1/ the price announced in late november 2009, changed quite a lot. About 100 € more.
2/ the only info i had about how to get my bike was the ETA of the boat. No phone number in Charleston, no indication to where I actually had to go. It was not hard to get but still

Angebote für Seefracht hatte ich von INTRANS GmbH von Hamburg nach Veracruz und von Intime Hamburg (Olaf Kleinknecht) von Hamburg nach ?? Die Transportkosten lagen jeweils bei ca. 500 Euro ab Hamburg. Zusatzkosten in Mexico ??

Luftfrachtangebote nach Cancun hatte ich von Intime (1389,00.- Euro ab Frankfurt in Transportkiste !), GS-Sportreisen München & Bikeworld-Travel Detmold mit praktisch identischem Angebot, ab München bzw. Düsseldorf, von 1190.- Euro + sich summierender Kleinkram. Da beide Firmen per LTU transportieren, kann man sich auch gleich an deren Transportgruppe wenden. Dies ist LEISURE CARGO GmbH (Tel. 0049 (0)2 11-9 41 87 95, E-Mail: sal...@leisurecargo.com), Fixpreis
1250.- Euro ab Düsseldorf.
Nun, ganz so fix ist der Preis nicht, denn bei ihrem Frachtpartner CARIBE CARGO in Cancun mußte ich zusätzlich 39 Dollar abdrücken.

Buchung, Abgabe des Motorrads etc. verlief mit LEISURE CARGO völlig problemlos. Allerdings ist es entgegen den Aussagen absolut möglich die Motorradkoffer randvoll zu packen. Der Mexicanische Zoll macht keinerlei Schwierigkeiten. Es dürfen aber keine Flüssigkeiten und Lebensmittel eingepackt werden und das ganze Zeug sollte in einem ersichtlichen Zusammenhang mit der Reise stehen.

Sobald man die Frachtpapiere von CARIBE CARGO (sitzen in einem Gewerbeareal 2 km vom Flughafen entfernt) erhalten hat, kann man die ""PERMISIO DE IMPORTACION TEMPORAL DE VEHICULOS"" hier erhalten:

MODULO DE IMPORTACION TEMPORAL
BANJERCITO PUERTO JUAREZ
CARRETERA PUERTO JUAREZ KM.0+300
SUPER MANZANA 86, MANZANA 2 LOTE 1
C. P. 77500 BENITO JUAREZ, QUINTANA ROO.
ATRAS DE ANTIGUA CAPITANIA DE PUERTO

Die KFZ-Haftplichtversicherung für Mexico hab ich via Internet von www.mexpro.com, die extra wegen mir ihre Seite geändert haben, damit auch nicht US-Amerikaner zu einer Police kommen.

Auch über Herrn Carlos Manfrino, dem lokalen Agenten der GNP, ist es möglich direkt vor Ort eine Versicherung abzuschließen. Für eine Jahresversicherung mit einer Deckungssumme von $750,000 pesos lag sein Angebot bei $1,507.66 pesos.
Seine Kontaktdaten:
""Carlos Manfrino""
Manfrino y Asociados
Tel. 52 (998) 8844062

In Cancun gibt es auch einen offiziellen BMW-Motorradhändler. Der meinte es sei einfacher und billiger sich direkt in Mexico ein Motorrad zu kaufen. Eine neue 650GS (Zweizylinder) war bei ihm mit 9000 US-Dollar ausgezeichnet. Wer näheres wissen will, wende sich direkt an Herrn Mario Almada, bmwm...@prodigy.net.mx

Das gesamte Prozedere der Motorradeinfuhr ist auf meiner Webseite (http://ingolf.belchenstuermer.de) ausführlichst beschrieben.

I shipped my DR650 with QANTAS freight uncreated, with my happy trail panniers left on the bike. Essentially this is what you need to do to ship your bike via quantas freight regardsless of the destination.

1. Get a shippers declaration for dangerous goods.

I used dangerous goods manamgement (http://www.dgm-aus.com.au/) I called up the day before to let them know I would stop by the following morning. Really nice staff and easy to deal with, in and out in about 30 minutse, alot of them ride and are easy going about the whore process.

2. Rock up at the qantas freight terminal.

My bike was shipped directly through Qantas (as opposed to a freight forwarder) meaning it was cheaper and is shipped on a standby basis (no need to call ahead simply show up dangerous goods declaration). Make sure the tank looks pretty much empty (I had to leave and drain more out despite only having a 1/4 of a tank) and isolate the battery by disconnecting the leads and taping them to the frame. You fill in a air way bill and despite what I was told they will weight the bike to calculate the cost (much better then the 500kg volumetric weight I had been quoted).

Cost break down (in AUD):

Dangerous goods declaraion $104
Airway bill fee $ 30