Shipping procedure from BGO to PTY
 

Hi fellows

Yesterday I came 9 am to Girag in BOG to present 2 bikes for shipping to PTY.
After a confusing first hour and some confusing info , there is only one way to do this and it will take you all day and evening, we were finished 7 pm that night and still have to go back @ 8am today to do police search on the airport, I am sure I do not have to be present, but they say it is better to be there, and I do not want to give any excuses to hold up the loading this evening to PTY.

Procedure is as follows:

Girag can not process the paper work as they are able to do in Panama , but a broker has to do this in Colombia and you pay them for everything totaling $ 1030.00 for each bike. First time in my life that if you pay with a credit card it is cheaper, if you pay in cash dollars it is $ 150.00 more!

So go see Ingrid Robayo @ LynCargo about 10 minutes from the airport
Av. Calle 24 # 95a-80 office 302
All you need is the originals of your a valid passport, your Dian Temporale importation" form of the Moto, they gave you for the moto when you entered Colombia"and our title. They will make all the copies necessary and
you pay her the money and then you drive to Girag @ the freight terminal and wait on LynCargo agent to present all the paperwork to Girag and he runs around with you to cancel your Dian and actually load with you the moto on the loading dock of Girag.
this is a lengthy process , so the earlier you start the better. Nobody worries about battery disconnect, fuel in tank and your luggage on the moto, my KLR came out to 534 pounds

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If you want to have your bike next day shipped to PTY, you have to do this paperwork on Tuesdays or Friday, they have 3 flights a week Wednesday, Saturday and Sundays.

Thanks for sharing the detailed info. I have been watching the price climb over the years. I'm curious why you chose to air lift instead of going by boat or shipping by sea container. At the price you paid to ship the bike alone, you and the bike could have taken one of the sail boats. Are you pressed for time or have an aversion to ocean travel? In addition to the freight charges and air plane ticket, there are all those taxi trips back and forth to the airport... I really enjoyed the water crossing and wonder why anyone would choose to do otherwise.

Enjoy the next leg of your trip!

Hi Peter

Time was important for us, spend in total $ 2.00 on Taxi in Bogota and in Panama $ 10.00 to get strait from PTY on arrival to cargo terminal, there arrived I had the 2 bikes cleared in less as 30 minutes and drove away into Panama. It was the end of our South America tour and did not want to look around in Cartagena for boat passage
Arriving in Bogota and leaving PTY airport took less as 2 days! and the we live on an idyllic island in Honduras for more as 30 years, so salt water is not anymore my first priority, mountains are!

remember me from asking you info in French Guayana , one year ago!

welcome home
 

Hi Scooper,

Glad to hear your motorcycle airlifts have all gone smoothly. There have been other posts about multiple trips back and forth to arrange shipment or release, but I may be thinking of posts about the release of a bike(s) that were shipped to Colombia by sea container. I think it took the guy three trips to complete the process. There may have been a holiday thrown in for good measure.

Welcome home and back to Honduras. Traveling is a lot of fun, but it feel so good sleep in your own bed, eat your regular diet and catch up on that which went unattended. Tell me if this happened to you, when you wash your clothes from the trip, did you have the urge to pack them on your bike? I happened to me and a SlowPhil47. It might take a full month or two before the itch to travel starts up.

I was planning to visit Roatan on my last ride through Honduras. Either leave the bike on the mainland or try and take it across on a ferry. In the end I rode quickly through Honduras (for the third time) to get to Panama and a sail date with the Stalhratte. On my way north I sail with them again, from Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba, getting off in Cancun, MX...skipping all Central America. Not sure when the next trip will happen, but eastern Honduras is on the list.

I have been enjoying your blog. You and Scotty blasted through Guyana in near record time. I rode the section from Lethem to Linden over three riding sessions. Two of the rides went onto the night. You wrote about the sandy sections south of 58...I did that stretch of after dark. In fact, I think I would have freaked out more if I was looking at the sand during the day.

One day you will have to tell me about the insurance papers that got you into French Guiana. They let me in with the promise that I would get insurance. I tried and failed to find affordable coverage. It may have helped me get in the country when I rattled off the names of all of the insurance companies in Suriname, then produced a business card from the French Guinean Embassy in Suriname where I stopped to ask for advice on buying insurance. Someone else behind me wasn't asked for insurance at all. Go figure.