I haven't shipped bikes via ship to Australia, but have been involved in a number of jobs where we shipped industrial equipment there and over to Thailand. Seems like they always tell you 6 weeks...count on a minimum of 8 and I've seen it more like 10 weeks. Don't know if it's still the same in Australia these days...but once in port we had one heck of a time getting our stuff unloaded...it sat for another week and a half in the hold of the ship while the unionized dock workers took their jolly old time and walked off the job with regularity.
When shipping overseas my experience has always been the only thing you can count on is that things rarely or never go as planned.
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