Shipments done by Travellers

This is an expensive and tedious exercise, not recommended. We chose this option as we missed the shipping to East Timor and Toll couldn't tell us when the next shipment would be. Darwin, Australia is an expensive place to stay and wait for the next ship. There is a lot of paperwork to be done in Singapore that can take a long time, don't assume you will get it all done in one day.

We had the option of towing the bikes from the Port to the Malaysian border, (the causeway between Singapore and Malaysia). The price for towing one bike was SGD$288, the price for the two bikes was double that even though they were to be put on the same truck. You still need to pay SGD$53.50 for an International Circulation Permit, SGD$10 for an LTA Autopass Card and SGD$3.00 to get into the port to access your bike.

We chose to ride our bikes from the port, we had to push them from the warehouse to the main gate/customs for the carnet stamp. So we had to buy insurance from AAS, at $264, plus  the ICP and LTA Autopass card and Port permit. These prices are based on shipping a BMWR80GS. Hope this information is of some use to someone.

I concur with other positive comments made about Gail and Motorcycle Express.  She got my bike on same plane that I was on, thanks to her referral to the Canadian ticket agent.  Motorcycle Express ships to and from all major Canadian cities. 

I landed at 7 am at Gatwick and rode right out of the airport about 3 hours later. Taxi to customs warehouse; waited a few minutes; out of there. 

Her compay also sells Europe-wide liability insurance.  Gail also put me in touch with the required import agent, Les Black, in London. 

I didn't even see or have to deal with Customs, except for a one page form filled out before I left and emailed to Les.  All contact with everyone was by email, always with prompt responses.  Gail arranged this whole thing, from first contact to delivery in two weeks. 

I've shipped my machine inter-continental 8 times and this was easiest ever and only one exactly on time as promised.  Really incredible.  Mention HU and get a modest discount.  Cheers.

As mentioned earlier, the whole process on how to do it can be found HERE.

As a quick note, we did not ship untill Moscow but untill Novosibirsk as we needed going south, but the destination doesn't really matter, it will only affect the price slightly as everything else remains the same (fee, crating,...) The procedure at Irkutsk is the same for going to Moscow or Novosibirsk or any other city for that matter along the Trans Sib.

Prices are fixed normally (by weight) and we paid for 2 bikes (DRZ400) 155€ for 2000km incl everything.

So I guess a GS would cost you around 300€ or less from Irkutsk to Moscow, including everything.