Shipments done by Travellers

The actual shipping was from cape town, south africa, to Singapore by boat. And from Singapore to Johor Bahru in Malaysia with a truck.  This because it was very expensive to import into Singapore.

You have to crate your motorbike and disconnect battery and fuel.  I got a free crate from the very friendly Mike Hopkins - mhop...@mikev.co.za and http://www.kawasakisouth.co.za/) in Cape town.

I used a Carnet de passage to enter Singapore and Malaysia.

Total cost was 800 us dollar. This includes freights in South Africa, Singapore and Malaysia.

The boat left Cape town 10 days after the initial departure date.  So if you're on a tight schedule..maybe best to take a plane.  It took 17 days + 10 days extra from late departure

Inland Haulage Euro 180 THC Euro 275 Sea Freight Euro 516 Lashing and loading Euro 150 Clearance Euro 150 Bill of laiding fee Euro 35 VAT Euro 181

This price includes the crate building, dangerous goods paperwork and 20 days storage in customs bonded area in Ulan Baatar. Storage price is 5USD per day.
We (I and 5 other bikers) were one of their first biking customers and I ticked No in answer to the question "Would you recommend..." because they had a lot of shortcomings when I used them:
- Paperwork was not clear (but everything worked out for me)
- My front brake disc was damaged during shipping
- Payment was complicated: not used to non-corporate customers, they have no credit card machine and all is by wire transfer)

Crating takes the better part of a day and you need to participate. You have to disconnect the battery and empty the fuel tank. No fluid containers should be present in your luggage (whether it's oil or shampoo, nothing).

They can ship anywhere, the cheapest is when they can use the Mongolian airline. To Bangkok they use Korean Airlines and they apply a 30% markup to the airline's quote. I don't know if you can deal directly with the airline but it would save a lot of money.

Hello

I shipped with Ivan Smoljko (i...@bikesabroad.com.au).
He was the only agent who would help me with the crate.
Everything was easy done by email, I droped off the bike at a warehouse (www.perthmotorcyclepickup.net.au) in Perth an they
crated the bike. I only had to remove the mirrors for the crating.
The crate was a original Harley-Davidson crate with a volume of almost 4 m3.
Ivan checked with his contacts in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur about the troubles and I decided to ship to Port Klang,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The Procedure in Port Klang to get the Bike:
Malaysia is very correct and I saw no long waiting between the steps but it still takes time.
If one knows what to do it's possible in 2 workingdays,
but since I didn't know all and because to public holidays it took me from Monday 8.00am to Friday 16.30pm....
This is how it would go:
1.Day:
Eary morning go to your shipping company and get the paper(several layers, top is pink) for the bike.
Go to the Malaysian Automobile Club to get the compulsory Insurance for Malaysia and Singapore.
You need also the round International Sticker from them, otherwise the custom will not fill out your CDP.
This will take several hours so by then you can call it a day.
Address:
Automobile Association of Malaysia
225, Block 4, Persiaran Sukan, Laman Seri Business Park, Section 13, 40100 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan.
GPS: N 03.09231 E 101.54397

2.Day:
Take the KTM train from Kuala Lumpure to Port Klang, approx. 1 hour 4.40 Ringgit.
Take a taxi to the Custom House in Northport, 2-3km approx. 5-10 Ringgit.
GPS Custom House: N 03.01484 E 101.36586
At the Custom House:
1. Go up the stairs turn left, go straight to the office at the end of the corridor.
There they want a fotocopy of:
-your passport,
-the original registration,
-the insurance for Malaysia
And then they fill in the CDP only halfway.
Go to Northport, there is a small footpath between the Custom House an the Powerplant
which leads right to the entrance of the Northport.
There you get a visitor pass.
2.Go to the warehouse at Northport of your shipping company to pay the fees and prepare the inspection.
3.Go with the CDP to Northport to the Customoffice, located in warehouse B2, for an inspection of the Bike.
The Customofficer then signs on the back of the import part of the CDP.
4. Go back to the Custom House to clear the CDP.
5. After the CDP you need the clearence of the bike on the pink paper, as well at the Custom House opposite the CDP office.
6.Go back to warehouse B2 the office opposite the customoffice where you did the inspection.
They sign the pink paper and keep it.
7. Go to the warehouse to pick up your bike. They have to sign as well, now on the last page.
8. Drive to the entrance of Northport and get the last singnature at the gate.
9. Your free to go.
Sounds easy, doesn't it?

Total cost:
Export Clearance Perth aud$ 200.--
Crating and delivery to the port in Perth aud$ 440.--
Ocean freight Fremantle-Port Klang aud$ 333.--
Terminal handling Kuala Lumpure aud$ 213.35
Import service fee Kuala Lumpure aud$ 55.--
Northport fee Ringgit 214.--
Insurance and Sticker Ringgit 255.--

Total around aud$ 1400.--

Well the seafreight itself is cheap but the handling and crating is tree times more.
At the end the costs were similar to my previous Ro-Ro shippings L

230 X 130 x 110 crated F.650 gs. 420 kg. with all panniers, luggage, spare tyres...

It was a japanese friends bike with some problems... Crated at kuzgunmotor then all paperwork in Istanbul took 2 days. 4 days After agreement and payment done, bike was on the flight with a cargo number to track online.