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Originally Posted by Samtoms
Hi!
I am shipping my bike into Lima, Peru mid April. I am currently going through the 'challenge' of getting everything sorted with my freight agent and the agent in Lima. The latest is that I have to find my own translator to help with the customs clearance. Does anyone know of a Lima based translator? Any bikies in Lima that might be available??
Would appreciate any help.
Sam
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Shipping a motorbike into PERU, Lima... (I can chuckle as i did it in September) as a part container shipment. The fees to get the bike off the ship and out onto the open road will be approx $800 USD. I did it all myself with the hotel reception girl. My Spanish in this experience is qualified as Zero.
It was all done officially, personally I would NOT recommend to ship into Lima if you can help it at all.
You cannot really start anything before the bike arrives in the port, then you will be given all the paperwork, and all the bills you have to pay to all the appropriate people... (lots of cash, lots of receipts, lots of taxi's back and forth) You get 21 days to start the paperwork, once you start the procedings you have about 3 days to complete all the paperwork before customs holding charges start to mount up too. (I do not know if the 3 days has to be completed within the 21, but i wouldn't risk going over the 21 because you have a storage bill starting from the arrival date in this case)
Andrew
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