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The HU Shipping Database!
From THIS page, you can find details of shipments ALREADY MADE by travellers, both air and sea, so you can plan your own shipment.
For each shipment, the details include Shipping Date, Cost, Shipper Contact details and a Description of the experience, often including very detailed and extremely useful information about the requirements for crating or the paperwork involved at the destination location.
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NOTE: This is not our normal view, but Google's API has somehow broken the view with a map and everything nicely laid out. We will fix it as soon as possible, but it's a very big job for us. Any Google API experts feel free to contact us! For now this will have to do, sorry.
Usage: Enter one or more of the fields, as you wish. Blank field means "all". Be sure to use correct country names, e.g. "United Kingdom" not UK or England. Unfortunately "united states" (united states of america doesn't work) gets United Kingdom as well, just work down to the bottom or last page. Not case-sensitive. Results sorted by newest first.
Shipment: From Aqaba, Jordan to Karachi, Pakistan - April, 2001
(Not sure, but I think they're called Kawar - we used them) 962 3021 4217
Maltrans 962 3201 4171
Elite 962 3201 2997, email ema-...@firstnet.com.jo
National Shipping Services 962 7953 8055 or 962 312997/8
(962 is the code for Jordan, 3 is the code for Aqaba)
Shipment: From Bangkok, Thailand to Kathmandu, Nepal - April, 2001
East West Air Services. 10/1 Soi Farm Watana, Rama 4 Road, Prakhanong, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110, Thailand. phone (66-2) 712 0130-51 Fax (66-2) 712 0156-59
We freighted 3 bikes last month from Bangkok to Katmandu. Had heard all the horror stories and were a touch nervous. But our agent was really good. Answered all our questions promptly, even the stupid ones. He is not the cheapest way to go, but for sure, we think the best. A cheaper option is not always a help when your bike is missing or things have been stolen off it. Our agent was Barry Crawford at East West Air Services. The really good thing was that the amount we paid covered everything in Thailand and Nepal. We did not have to pay a cent extra. An efficient agent, and a nice guy as well. Ed. Per recent reports (Feb/03), East West Air Services no longer offers this service.
Shipment: From Darwin, Australia to Singapore, Singapore - April, 2001
Perkins Trading
Frances Bay Drv, Darwin
Phone 08 89822012 or 89822000
Fax 61 8 89410991
...We shipped from Darwin to Singapore. They ship all over that bottom part of asia. Takes 6 days sing Darwin. All pretty easy if you have carnet.
From Singapore to Darwin, also contact Geoff Lock (see above), a biker who works for Perkins Shipping
Shipment: From Melaka, Malaysia to Dumai, Indonesia - April, 2001
Passenger Ferry - Follow Me Express Ferry Service on the 'Indomal Express'. Morning and afternoon ferries. 59 RM per person (special price).
Cargo - Jalinan Muara Enterprise. Ph 012-6231867
Small office near customs/ferry terminal.
Customs - Between passenger and cargo dock/terminals.
By onion boat!
8.00am Arrive at cargo terminal.
10.30am Carnet and invoice processed. 400 RM (negotiable).
11.00am Bike loaded onto 'Kurnia Jaya' S27-41 and lashed to wheel house. Bags of onions packed around bike.
12.00 Bike leaves. Journey 8 hrs.
3.45pm Low tide. Old ferry shuttles us to new ferry and we transfer 2-3 kms out to sea. Keep luggage to a minimum. Journey 2 hours.
6.00pm Dumai - Immigration - 60 day tourist visa. Return ticket or show of funds not requested. Customs - no searches. Both very easy.
The following is what we recommend you do to avoid 'rip offs'.
1. Leave ferry terminal - Walk or catch a rickshaw to the main customs office/bldg (approx 4-500 mtrs). Through archways to main road, turn left and it's on the right hand side.
2. Advise customs officals what is happening. E.T.A. of bike, company name and contact number and accomodation requirements. We stayed at the Hotel Srikandi for 70,000 Rs. There are cheaper but they were full. Don't stay at the Royal Hotel unless you have lots of money. Customs have a driver and a 4 x 4 and will probably drive you everywhere for no charge. They are extremely helpful. Be prepared to pay if this is not possible. There are touts everywhere trying to rip you off including the shipping agent.
3. Hopefully!! customs will drive you to cargo dock to collect the bike. 8 pm for us.
4. Collect bike after ten lads lift bike off boat and demand 100,000 Rs (approx US$10) You can negotiate.
5. Ride back to customs and process carnet. We could not as too late. Left bike at customs and driver took us back to hotel.
Next Day
6. 8.am to 11.30 am Customs picked us up, carnet was processed. They drive us to the police station to arrange permit for the bike. All done, no charges, very helpful. You need a rough itinerary for police permit.
7. Police permit requires you to check into police stations each overnight stay. We are doing this but most police do not understand proceedures. All are very friendly and helpful.
Purnama Mutiara Sdn. Bhd.
Ajensi Penghantaran & Perkapalan
d/a Petronas Lot 179 Semabok
75050 Melaka, Malaysia.
The little office is situated right on the harbour behind the Maritime Museum.
Since a lot of motorcycle travellers on the way to Australia ship their bikes from Singapore and consider going into Indonesia too risky and to much of a hassle I could tell you the experiences that we (i.e. Horst Lentes, Chris Addison, Cuan Mulcahy and me) had. It might encourage other travellers to go through Indonesia as well. Indonesia is certainly a country worth visiting.
There is not one single vehicle ferry between Malaysia and Indonesia or Singapore and Indonesia. So we chartered one of the little wooden cargo boats that sail from Melaka in Malaysia to Dumai in Sumatra every day.
We paid 350 Ringit per bike. We were not allowed on the cargo boat. We had to take the passenger ferry, which cost 50 Ringit per person plus 10 Ringit tax. The ferry and the cargo boat left in the morning of the same day. Since the ferry was a lot faster, we could wait for the cargo boat in Dumai. There was a customs officer on board the ferry. He asked a lot of questions, but didn
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"...Then head for Aqaba, the Red Sea port of Jordan and organise a container between a few of you.
We actually shipped a Landrover LWB from Jordan to Pakistan, although the ships do a round route via Karachi and Mumbai before coming back. We had a 20ft container to ourselves (Full Conatiner Load - FCL), whereas with 2 bikes you may have to go LCL (Less than full Container Load), which may mean delays as you have to wait until they have other goods to fill the container with - assuming you don't team up with a few others and all ship together.
Don't plan on travelling on the ship though, as we didn't find anyone who would let us. We flew from Amman. The cost of a one-way flight to Mumbai or Karachi was between JD260-310 (1JD = 1GBP)
In terms of shipping agents, I have the following details. There are about a dozen shipping agents in Jordan as I remember, although there are only two or three actual shipping lines - agents all have a quota of containers to fill on each ship, so you will get different quotes from different agents, even though they may be for the same ship. The ships all sail once a week, and you have to be at the port three or four days before. If you want Pakistan, they go to Port Qasim (code: BQM), which is 30km east of Karachi. If you want Mumbai, they go to Jawarhal Nehru Port Trust in Nhava Sheva (code: JNP), which is 30km south of Mumbai. We got a deal for two cars, at US$350 each, including all port charges and customs in Aqaba. (I think we were lucky to get such a great deal) At the other end, we had to spend another $350 to clear the car, although the fees will vary.
Numbers I have are:
(Not sure, but I think they're called Kawar - we used them) 962 3021 4217
Maltrans 962 3201 4171
Elite 962 3201 2997, email ema-...@firstnet.com.jo
National Shipping Services 962 7953 8055 or 962 312997/8
(962 is the code for Jordan, 3 is the code for Aqaba)
If you really are stuck and don't know what to do then ring these companies up, as $20 on phone calls is much cheaper than a long ride south. I'm sorry if these numbers do not work, they are from my diary a year ago.
Don't forget also, that if you get to Aqaba then you also have the choice of shipping to Africa instead...
If you want more info, please contact me and I will do my best to help. I know what it's like to be stuck!