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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 Auckland, New Zealand to Frankfurt, Germany - May, 2014

Air
5/5 - Excellent
Yes
TNL International
http://www.tnlintl.co.nz

Level 1, 47 Richard Pearse Drive  |  PO Box 53122  |  Auckland International Airport

Shayne Miers
shaynem@tnlintl.co.nz

Very friendly and helpfull, we could pack the crates at their yard.
Had to remove battery and get a certificate that the tanks were purged of all fuel and cleaned, which cost us 100 $ per bike.

Got the crates from BMW in Auckland for free!

2100
40

Shipment: From Bremerhaven, Germany to Halifax, Canada - May, 2014

Sea
5/5 - Excellent
Yes
Wallenius Wilhelmsen
http://www.2wglobal.com

Used this company before and this time more than excellent.

1 asked a quote on the website

2 look on the website for a convienient date for your shipment and book it.

3 Got by email all the details what to do and when

4 Paid 1050 euro via banktransfer and got in return a referencenumber

5 bring the bike to the gate and hand over the referencenumber.

6 you get an entrancepass wich you allow to go  trough the gate and wait on the inside for someone to bring you to the parking spot and give that man the papers you got together with the entrancepass.

When you parked your bike you get one copy of the papers back and another pass wich you allow to get  trough the gate on your way out.

That's all. The advice wasto take away the licenceplate because some souvenirhunters like them, but I rivetted the plate. No change to take off.

On Halifax side get a moneyorder from the postoffice for the amount you have to pay to the agent (165 Can $) because it is not allowed to take cash.

With the paid stamp on you paper go to customs, Get a stamp over there when you bike is cleared. Go to the harbour and collect the bike.

We stayed in Dartmouth oceanview hotel on walking discance of the ferry.

When you disembark the ferry on Halifax side, 4 min walking disdance to the right, Theres is the agents office.

From agentsoffice to customs 10 min walk .

All very close, thats why we took Halifax for a second time to start a trip.

All together  1050 euro oceanpassage and harbourdues Bremerhaven site and 165 can $ on Canadian side.

We travelled with carnet, not necessary for canada and us but use it for a folling trip through SE Asia. When you do not have this, 100 euro is added to clear the bike from Bremerhavensite

 

 

Website wallenius
several but you get them when you asked for aquote

See above

1050 euro
165 Can $

Shipment: From Sydney, OZ to Seoul, Korea - May, 2014

Air
4/5 - Good
Yes
Cargoaustralia
http://www.cargoaustralia.com.au/
Tishan
info@cargoaustralia.com.au

Crating is not incl. I used a crate from BMW. The wheight of the crated bike + gear 377 kg, the value is 455 kg so they charged me for value. Themporary import permit in Korea 160$. Carnet was useful but doesn't work in Korea no stamps. Hope it helps.

850
65

Shipment: From Sydney, Australia to Dubai, UAE - May, 2014

Air
5/5 - Excellent
Yes
Talkcargo
http://www.talkcargo.com/

Tel: 1300 799 362

Paul King
paul@talkcargo.com

Contacted Paul from talkcargo. He replied to emails the same day every time. I was slow deciding where to start my trip and Paul was great and getting me different quotes for any country I considered. He also offers tips for getting the volume down to save money. Awesome guy to deal with. Can't recommend his services enough.

Dropped the bike off in Sydney and the guys took care of all the packing. Riding gear, panniers and tank bag stayed with the bike. Paul provided the shipping bill and i used this to get the Carnet stamped out by Australian customs. I flew to Jordan for a week and the bike followed ten days later and on time.

Bike arrived to freight gate 5 with dnata cargo. It's on the airport freezone side of the airport. It's also next door to customs and easy going back and forth for paperwork. The shipping company and customs are open 24 hours.

Costs in Australia
AUD 2600 - included a couple of hundred for the dangerous goods certificate which you could do yourself but I didn't have time.

Costs in UAE to clear the bike.
AUD 255
Customs fee AED 110 (AUD 32)
Dnata handling fee AED 211 (AUD 62)
Shipping agent fee AED 250 (AUD 73). - I didn't know for about half a day that I was using an agent. They organised the bill of lading.
Insurance for 14 days with RTA AED 300 (AUD 88) - Best to do prior to going to get the bike. Just need rego papers and there are RTAs in a lot of places around Dubai.

2400
200

Shipment: From Tamm, Germany to Ulan Bator, Mongolia - May, 2014

Truck
4/5 - Good
Yes
Pan Europa
http://www.pan-europa.de/

Pan Europa Transport (Süd) GmbH

Bietigheimer Str. 62

71732 Tamm

Tel: +49 7141 97487 35

Fax: +49 7141 97487 29

www.pan-europa.de

In Mongolia you need to contact the company MONEX:

phone (Gonnie, he speaks english): +976 99 11 01 95
GPS coordinates of Monex Cargo: N 47°54.486' E 106°52.798'
website: www.monex.mn
Andreas Koenig
andreas.koenig@pan-europa.de

Dear all, here is my experience with the company Pan Europa that offers shipping from Tamm (Germany) to Ulan Bator (Mongolia).

Before the shipping:
 
Since 2013, I had a lot of email exchange with Mister König and always got quick replies.
 
There are different ways of shipping your bike. Usually you ship you bike with an ATA Carnet when you plan to ship your bike back home. This is the easiest solution. The custom work in Mongolia is done in 2-3 hours and it's cheap. 
 
If you plan to sell you bike in Mongolia, or to leave it there for a longer period you need to pay the import tax. There are 2 different ways to import a vehicle: 
 
- The temporary import of 1 year (tax is about 15.5%)
- The definitive import if the bike will stay in Mongolia (tax is about 25%)
 
Pan Europa usually only deal with people using ATA Carnet, as it seems the first choice in Germany for shipping the bike. So about the import, they couldn't really inform me on how it will be done once I get there. 
 
Being a Swiss citizen, I can't send my motorbike with an ATA Carnet. In our country, the ATA Carnet can only be used for vehicles without number plate (race cars and motorbikes for example). So for me the only option was the temporary import.
 
Initially I planned to send a lot of stuff in the box with my bike, but Pan Europa advise me to send as little as possible. Every single part must be listed and if you remove the front wheel and the mirrors, they need to be on separate position in the list. For each position in the list there is a fee to pay. Needless to say, if you need to list every part or your tool box, it's gonna be much cheaper to take it in the plane. I heard as well from another custom that arrived in Mongolia one week before me, that there is an special import tax if you send oil with your bike. So better but it there, and it will be cheaper there.
 
I build the box to send my bike myself, because Pan Europa already rented all their motorcycle transport boxes. The transport costs from Tamm in Germany to Ulan Bator in Mongolia was 903 euro which I think is quite cheap for such a long distance.
 
As soon as the transport was in Russia, I received a daily update per email on where my bike was and how many days left until Ulan Bator. The transport arrived on time. I don't remember exactly but I think it took less than 30 days.
 
 
Finding Monex / Dealing with the paperworks in Mongolia:
 
 
Once I landed in Ulan Bator, the biggest difficulty was to find the Monex Office. There is no address and nobody knows where it is. I got help from Urnaa, one of the person working at the Intergam Oasis Guesthouse. She offen deals with bikers sending their motorcycle back home, she can arrange wodden crates for shipping, but in my case she was no sure. She never had this case so fare, somebody shipping the bike in Mongolia, going to Russia and not coming back with the bike.
 
There is actually 2 Monex Offices in 2 different places. They open at 9am. I hade phone contact with Gonnie who organized the paperworks for 2 bikers 1 week before. The German guy sent his bike with an ATA Carnet and it took less than an hour, and the Swiss guy, like me sent it without the ATA Carnet. It took him 3 days and he had to pay the import tax.
 
Gonnie told me to go to the port. It took us 1.5 hour to find the place. I saved the GPS coordinates, so make sure to put them in your GPS before your trip.
They made copies of my passport and motorcycle papers and told me to leave and wait for their call.
 
The next Morning around 11am I got a call from Gonnie, that the paperworks were ready and I could get my bike. Because I was exiting Mongolia the next few days and not coming back, he issued a special paper saying that I don't need to pay the import tax. I only had to pay 60 dollars fees for the paperwork.
 
I showed up again at the Monex Cargo and the opened the crate for me, gave me the papers, I paid the 60 dollars and it was over. It took me 2 days to get my bike. 2 Days later I was in Russia. Nobody asked me anything at the border, didn't even had to show the papers I got from Monex.
 
Advices:
 
If you plan to ship your Motorcycle to Mongolia, you need to count 2 or 3 days to get your bike through customs. So try not to arrive later than wednesday it possible, in order to avoid having to wait the whole weekend if for any reason it takes longer than 2 days.
 
Monex in Ulan Bator:
 
GPS coordinates of Monex Cargo: N 47°54.486' E 106°52.798'
Put these coordinates in your GPS as nobody knows where it is. This is the only place you need to go, first to give your papers and then to get your bike.
 
Gonnie  (Gonnie is in another office, but he speaks english and will tell you what to do. You don't need to go to his office)
phone: +976 99 11 01 95
website: www.monex.mn
 
Oasis Guesthouse:
http://www.guesthouse-oasis.mn/index.php/en/
Urnaa
1200
60

 

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