Shipments done by Travellers

Drive clean bike to Girag, Cargo. Drain fuel, disconnect battery, take off mirrors. See Carolina on the second floor of Girag. Leave data of bike, she types out waybill. You take it over to DIAN, customs, get an agent to inspect bike at Girag. Walk back with agent to DIAN, get documents. Go to police at airport to inspect bike. They come later and issue document for shipper. Bike promised for next morning in Panama. Whole process takes all morning. Much time spent waiting.

We transported one Honda Africa Twin in a wooden crate. The weight was about 300kg and the size was 2,83 qm.

With Olaf Kleinknecht from Intime-Ham everything runs fine. Simply and easy. The very long distance - Germany to New Zealand - costs only 500 Bucks!

In Auckland we have to pay Handling-Fees and Charges for this and that...
That was another 200 Bucks.
At Mondiale Freight Services Limited, New Zealand.
Adress: 19 Richard Pearse Drive, P.O. Box 53004
Auckland International Airport
Telephone: 64-9-256-4111
Fax: 64-9-256

And - of course - we have to pay for moving our box and storage and things like that. We used Tapper Transport, Storage and Delievering, Onehunga, Auckland. They were very helpful and nice!
That was another 105 Bucks.

All good! We recommend them all!

Left bike at Panama City Tocumen Carga on Thursday afternoon. Drained fuel. Bike promised to arrive in Bogota on Saturday. It arrived on Monday. Takeout in Bogota, about two hours. You walk over to DIAN (customs), get an agent to go back to Girag with you. She fills in the forms, both of you walk back to DIAN, more forms and copies (you pay for copies, less than $1.00). You walk back to Girag with documents and take out bike. Finished.

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This shipping info is for all you folks heading to Caracas in the near future. I just airfreighted my bike a month ago from Panama.
Three companies in Panama that I spoke with are now shipping through DHL to Caracas. I couldn't find any companies shipping directly.

You have to go to the cargo airport 20 minutes past the international airport. Go to the far right buildings where DHL is and look for Panalpina office. They quoted me a price of $560.00 US, but I had the measurements wrong. It turned out to be over 800$! yikes

You may have better luck. DHL doesn

Bought a Harley Davidson crate for AUS $200 at
Wayne Leonard Motorcycles
32-34 Water street
Cairns, 4870 QLD, Australia
Phone +61(0)740512741
Fax +61(0)740310071
and secured my Buell XB9S with four straps. Final dimension LxWxH (cms) 240x75x130, total chargeable weight (kgs) 390.
The transport company picked the crate up at the dealer and took care of everything else. I had a carnet de passage.
There Dutch agent,
Aerocar BV
Zandsteen 2
2132 MR Hoofddorp
Phone +31(0)203166666
Fax +31(0)203166669