Shipments done by Travellers

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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Submit information on a shipment YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE here.

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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 Vancouver, Canada to Bogota, Colombia - September, 2012

Air
4/5 - Good
Yes
Baseline forwarding

I used email only to deal with Marwan and he was very helpful.

Marwan Bawarchi
Mbawarchi@baselineforwarding.com

The bike I shipped is a 2007 KLR 650, I used a factory steel crate from the current model and the fit was quite good. Only minor mods were needed to the mounts. I removed the front wheel, front fender, wind screen, mirrors, handlebars and hand controls. I stuffed the empty spaces in the crate with all my camping gear, tools and my riding gear. I was within 10kg of the volume weight, so it was a compact packing job. I brought my side cases with me on the airplane as luggage. The costs when picking up the bike were $41.50 US paid to customs. It took about 2.5 hours to do the paperwork, I just asked around until I found a person who spoke English and she helped get me going. A nice young guy who wanted to practice English hung around and talked to the guys in the warehouse for me. They let me un crate the bike right in the warehouse and let me leave all the garbage, "no problem" said the boss. If , like me, your plane is hours late, it might be a better idea to come back in the morning to get the bike. The workers at the warehouse had to stay late for me to finish assembling the bike. They didn't seem to mind at all but I still felt like a jerk.

$2300 Canadian

Shipment: From Darwin, Australia to Dilli, East Timor - September, 2012

Sea
5/5 - Excellent
Yes
perkins shipping

Darwin Australia port

perkins
www.perkins.com

Great service no crate and no bulshit leas than 1 hour to deliver the bike and get it done easy. drive to the custom office 5 minuts from perkins get a stamp in the carnet 5 minutes and that was done. shiping time 48 hours then I whas told that there is now a 60 us dollar charge in Timor when yoo colekt the bike in Dilli. You nead to go to perkins office and clear the bike att fatuhada infront off land mark toll marine logistic phone numbear 77231031 in Dilli You get your bill off lading thear the bike I shipt whas a honda 650 with the 2 side boxes one it no nead to empty the tank the dont check no problem was dam easy.

444 Australian dollars

Shipment: From New York, United States to Paris, France - September, 2012

Air
4/5 - Good
Yes
Berklay Shipping

NYC

Greg
greg@berklay.com

Greg was very helpful and fielded a ton of questions via email before I decided on shipping the bike.

Basically it was $2000 on his end and

3000.00

Shipment: From Vancouver, Canada to Hamburg, Germany - September, 2012

Sea
4/5 - Good
Yes
In Time Forwarding & Courier e.K.

In Time Forwarding & Courier e.K.
Flughafen Frachtzentrum Geb. 148
22335 Hamburg - Germany
Fon +49 - 40 - 50751014
Fax +49 - 40 - 50751657

Olaf J. Kleinknecht
ojk@intime-ham.com

Crated the bike ourselves and took it to the Canadian shipment company. I think they sent it to the Canadian east coast to have it shipped to Germany.
Total time of shipment: 4 weeks.
Picked it up in Hamburg ourselves too. Only thing that was not well prepared was the customs. Had a little struggle getting it our of the harbour. Took about an hour because some papers were missing.

1400

Shipment: From Accra, Tema, Ghana to Cape Town, South Africa - August, 2012

Sea
1/5 - Useless
No
BJH LOGISTICS LTD

BJH Logistics Services Limited
Naateh Block Suit 5
Near Apostolic Church
Community 5 Station
P. O. Box BT 202,
Tema, Ghana
West Africa

Henry Somuah
bjhlogistics@gmail.com

For any reason, do not even ask for a quotation to this company.

Unreliable and unprofessional service.

Wrong date of shipment (initially said on 6th of August but it departs on 14th of August).

The initial offer did not include every cost.

A lot of hidden costs.

We paid double money for car clearance.

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO AVOID THIS COMPANY!!!!!

VERY BAD EXPERIENCE

4000


 

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