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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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 Melbourne, Australia to Singapore, Singapore - February, 2012

Sea
3/5 - Average
Yes
Pack and send

PACK & SEND Bendigo

9 Marong Road Bendigo

Tel 03 54445723

Fax 03 54414375

David
bendigo@packsend.com.au

We shipped two Royal Enfield's from Australia to Singapore.

It was far too expensive for us to ride the bikes in Singapore, so we used a company called Bikebulance (Daniel 64255333) to tow us to the Malaysian causeway. Be prepared when you get there as you are literally dropped on the side of the road and there is no emergency lane.

the breakdown of our cost were

$240 au to ship the bikes from Australia. the main royal enfield importer gave us two crates.
$353 au for the fee's at the port and warehouse fee's in Singapore.

$403 au for the towing to the Malaysian causeway.

It was going to cost us something like $600 dollars each to ride through Singapore. the main cost being the insurance which was $400 as we are only 24 and 25.

my recommendation would be to ship directly into Malaysia. There are a lot less loopholes to get through.

1006

Shipment: From Guayaquil, Ecuador to Barcelona, Spain - February, 2012

Sea
1/5 - Useless
No
Veco Logistics (MSL Corporate)

Is better not to call them

Jennifer Perez / Lisbeth Calle

I contacted Jennifer Perez (Perez y Veliz Asociados) and signed a contract for 900USD + a 120USD insurance. (I paid both before shipping in Guayaquil). She contracted VECO Logistics and they contracted MSL Corporate.
I made myself a semi-crate with 2 pallets and slings (pallets for free and over 20USD for the ropes)
Jennifer kept a motorbike key copy and the windshield. She promised to send it by courrier; she never did it.
After 3 months of delivery time, once in Barcelona harbour, by surprise they told me that I should pay 800USD more! (the receiving company was IFS Logistics)
In order to take the bike I had to pay that.

Please, do not use none of these companies if you dont want to be rip off.

1800USD

Shipment: From Le Havre, France to Walvis Bay, Namibia - February, 2012

Sea
4/5 - Good
Yes
SDV

SDV LI Marseille
29 BD Gay Lussac
13014 MARSEILLE - FRANCE
Tel. +33 (0)4 91 11 28 15
Fax +33 (0)4 91 11 29

Laila el Amidy
l.elamidy@sdv.com

Quite fast (5 weeks in total) with only one ship change in Algeciras, container closed and sealed as we brought the cars, kept closed in WB against a small fee until we arrived, vehicles well strapped, outstanding service in WB (45 min in total including customs clearance and Carnet stamped).

6.000

Shipment: From Kinshasa, Congo (Democratic Republic of) to Lubumbashi, Congo (Democratic Republic of) - February, 2012

Air
3/5 - Average
Yes
CAA

0999959279
can be found at the CAA cargo depot. note this is not at the airport!

Joel

I couldn't get an angola visa so I put the bike on a plan to Lubumbashi.
They wrapped it in cardboard for me. made me empty the acid out of the battery!?!? but a guy in Lubumbashi went and got me some more. Everybody was super helpful.
NOTE! They hand lift your bike out of the plane! so if you have a very heavy bike (1200GS) it could get damaged. I just got a dent on my bash plate which I pushed back out.

pretty good when you're in a pinch.

200

Shipment: From Penang/Butterworth, Malaysia to Belawan, Indonesien - February, 2012

Sea
4/5 - Good
Yes
Cakra Shipping

Cakra Shipping

Georgetown, Insel Penang

187 Lebuh Pantai

Büro ist im 2. Stock

GPS-Koordinaten: N 5° 24.857´ E 100° 20.281´

Kontakt: Mr Lim

Telefon: 042625879

Handy: 0124709717

Email: cakrashipping@gmail.com

Mr. Lim
cakrashipping@gmail.com

For more detailed information please visit our website. We listed all the steps you have to go through on the Malaysian and the Indonesian side with contact details, GPS-Coordinates and many more.

http://www.timetoride.de/l%C3%A4nderinfos/fazit-s%C3%BCdostasien2/

(Please use the translator button on the right hand side of the web page to choose your language!)

134 USD per bike
96 USD per bike


 

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