After some considerable searching, i have finally got my tickets for the Sharjah - Bander-e-Abbas ferry on Tuesday.

The reason for the confusion is the Oasis Freight does not now seem to exist and the company acting as agency for all the freight and passengers on the ferry is now Al Hili Marine Services LLC. All the contact details are below. It appeard that some of the people working for Oasis, are now with Al Hili, but whether it's just a change of name, i'm not sure.

AL HILI MARINE SERVICES LLC
Ground Floor
Al Ikhias Tower
PO Box 27522
Sharjah

Tel: +97165288575
Fax: +97165288574
E-mail: info@alhili.com

Website (Iran): www.valfajr.ir
E-mail (Iran): catamaran@valfajr.ir

They were all very helpful and i was out of there within 30-35 minutes. Now for the port..............

I've emailed Al Hili but any idea which days the ferry departs from Sharjah to Bandar-e-Abbas, and what the price is for one person and a normal sized car?

Received a reply:

"We have weekly two departures fm Sharjah to BandarAbbas. Every Sundays and Tuesdays.
Dep in the evening and arrival next day morning at Bandarabbas. Tickets should be
purchased at least a day in advance. Pax must hold valid visa for Iran.
For the car Carnet De passage and registration docs is required.
Pax ticket fare is Aed.310/- and freight and charges for a normal car is Aed. 1620/-."

Thanks for these details! Al Ikhias Tower appears on Google maps when you search for it so it was very easy to locate.

Be prepared for a lot of messing about over 2-3 days though.

On the Sharjah side there was a lot of messing about because at the office they neglected to give us a lot of details of what was going on. There was a lot of confusion when we were told we couldn't be in the "Passenger Departure" terminal too. Immigration is the building next door which is were we were told to wait but you need a "boarding card" which you get in the passenger departure building, which we were told multiple times not to be in...

But it was nothing compared to the Iranian side. I recommend never arriving at that port during Ramadan. We had to stay 2 nights in exciting Baddar Abbas with a giant mess of paperwork and then offices being closed early because of the holy month. Even in any other month it'd be difficult to do after 13 hours on a ferry with hardly any sleep.

Also take any luggage you might need or might get damaged in the sun before you enter the immigration building, there's a huge chance it may be left there overnight.

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Ohhhh soooo true !!!

Be warned those of you planning to travel there - great patience needed !!

Please see my other post at: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...ran-iraq-63783 for further info and if you want help in the Bander Abbas port with the importation formalities, contact a guy called Ahmad, who just happenned to be my taxi driver from the hotel back to the port on my second day after arrival. He had been in Britain for a couple of years in the '70's and spoke good English. He agreed to help me get through the Customs and Immigration nightmare and 3.5-4 hours later, i was on the road to Shiraz. He didn't mention a figure for payment, but i was so relieved that i gave him the equivalent of about $60, which i thought was well worth it as he did a superb job. His number is 00989173674031 and i'm sure hat if you called him either on arrival, or before you left Sharjah, he would meet you and help you through the complications to enter Iran.
Even given the entry problems, Iran is well worth visiting and the people are superb and very friendly, so don't be put off and enjoy !

Hi,

Thanks for this information.
I'm planning a trip to Mongolia from Dubai and I was curious about the ferry crossing.

The UK foreign office have advised me not to travel to Iran at the moment but I'll be traveling with an Iranian and she thinks that if we avoid certain areas mainly Iraqi/Afghan border towns, there is no issue.

How difficult was it to obtain a visa to enter with a vehicle?

Booking the ferry from Bandar e Abbas to Sharaya

I' m going to explain the procedure buying tickets and leaving Iran by ferry.

1. * * You can buy a passenger ticket in any town in Iran. I bought one in Shiraz by "Iran Travel Agency" for 45 Dollar.
2. * * Once in Bandar e Abbas you have to go to the governmental shipping company at tunktion *Jahãngardi - Bolvãr Pãsdãrãn. *( 7 kilometers west the city center)*
*Just in the corner there is the building and in the second floor you can buy the ticket for the bike. I've paid 780'000 Rial.*
3. * *Then you have to go 3 kilometer west to port " Bonahar". After the entrance in the first Barack on the left there you get a couple of stamps in the CDP.
4. * * Three baracks later there is the custom. You will get some Paper and they charge ten dollar for it.
5. * * Behind the left, the second Building on the corner there you get some other paper. Inside the building you have to go to your right to the first officer and then anti clockwise to *the next. That officer asks you to do 12 copies in an other building in front of you. Then go back and there is waiting an other very friendly officer for you.
6. * * They go on f....ing you. The officers won't speak English. They are really unhappy on work. Then at 2100 i get the bike on board. One hour later the ferry left. The next morning at 1000 we arrived in Sharaja. There the big moment. They asked for 300 dollars. Nobody told me before. In my mind i paid the ticket before in the office in Bandar Abbas..... A big.....it!
7. * * * Paperwork in UAE is at list also 3-4 hours!

Holy ... thanks for the information!!

Hi
Is the departure from Iran to UAE twice a week? Monday and Wednesday?
Does it leave in the evening?

Thanks for the info

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AFR81, the ferrys seems to operate on monday and wednesday from Bandar abbas.

Hoopies? Did you pay the 300$ in Sarjah? How did you ended up with?

We where today at the port and will get the ferry this monday.

Thanks

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Hi All
Ive been following this post because I will be making the crossing travelling onwards to Zahedan, and forward thr Pakistan, India, China and Asia overland.
I had called the Oasis Freight Company here in Dubai like everyone advised, but all numbers are disconnected and its ridiculous to find this company on the internet.
So I took it upon myself to make fresh headway and found ANOTHER shipping company that have ferry tickets to Iran. Try this company- the offices are in Dubai and at the docks in Sharjah:
Good Luck Shipping
06 5288575
04 3575222

As it says Good luck!
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