To answer your question, it requires a bit of a back story - in 2019 we left Paris, drove to Moscow, and from Novosibirsk down to, and clear across W->E, Mongolia to Vladivostok. We caught the DBS Ferry (no longer operating) to Japan. After 3 months in Japan, with the cold and winter approaching, we left the bikes in Japan to return in the following spring. Except COVID, and we were finally able to return to Japan in March 2023.

So COVID is really complicating travel particularly shipping. Old 'standard' shipping routes gave been closed or modified, and prices are painful for lack of use and or lack of availability modalities (less planes flying).


We shipped the bikes out of Japan to Korea via CAMELIA LINES Ferries. They were the first and only ferry company that permitted 1) foreigners and 2)one way passage. This caused us some 2 weeks of travel delays, but the route is now back online. The other ferry lines did not accept us.

From Korea the plan was to fly cargo - like everyone did preCOVID- to Vancouver. That was estimated at over 7000USD per bike now. As Wendy Choi notes that after 3 years, the systems are no longer the same. Sea Shipping to Vancouver estimate at 3500USD per bike, +30ish days.

In the end we just pulled the pin and decided to just go back home and found shipping back to France at estimate 2500USD all found for 2 bikes +40days. 2 bikes in a single 20' container without crating.

Again, the COVID effect, while we canvassed as many as 5 shipping agencies, we only had a response from Mr Youn of ASSURED SEA and AIR. Likely because we had been in discussions with Mr Youn back in 2019.

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2023 back in Japan on the road after COVID, 2019 Paris Siberia Japan tbd -2010 WR250R; 2015-2016 Paris-Mongolia and Paris-Silk Road; 2011-2013 Canada Ushuaia