Europe to Canada (Vancouver preferred) or west coast usa
 

Hey everyone, I recently bought a vehicle in Norway and am now planning a way of getting it home! Flying into Norway mid April and touring around Europe with it before sending it home. Hoping to ship it roro due to insane container shipping prices the last couple years but if prices have settled out at all I could be persuaded to ship via container. I live near Vancouver Canada so new Westminster or Vancouver port is preferred however tacoma wa is not far and it could be shipped there as well. Halifax is also an option but would really prefer west coast if possible. Thank you for any input!

Roro is almost certainly out for motorcycles anyway (they can't guarantee that the port staff will be able to ride a motorcycle, and don't want the liability).

Moreover, you're looking for a ship that goes all the way through the Panama Canal and up the west coast of North America? No transshipment, one ro-ro ship all the way through from Europe, and cheaper than a container? That's a tall order.

This is your best option by far, I think: https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hu...-2023-a-104070

A weird but fun option would be to take the ferry from Denmark to Iceland, and arrange a ro-ro or more likely shared container on https://www.eimskip.com/ to Halifax.

I'm assuming you've figured out the technicalities of importing a foreign-market vehicle into Canada and registering it in BC?

That said, now that I see you're saying vehicle and not necessarily motorcycle, try https://ivssuk.com/roll-on-roll-off-shipping/ - they have ports in Europe and Vancouver as options.

I should have specified it’s a car not a motorcycle, and shipping to halifax is also an option however it’s not preferred, looking at all options at the moment as the cost has been quite a shock compared to shipping from japan. The one quote I got to roro from hamburg to halifax was more than triple what I’ve paid to ship from japan and then I’d have to pay another $1500+ to have it sent by rail from halifax to Vancouver. A shared container could also be an option but hoping to exhaust all efforts I can with roro first. The one quote I received for container was over $10,000. I’m not sure if that’s normal or if the broker just out to rob me. And lastly yes I’ve brought in a fair number of vehicles from japan and usa just have never had experience shipping outside of japan.

Well there are differences... from Japan to west coast of North America, there is a LOT of car shipping. Both new vehicles for the US market from Japanese factories, and second-hand JDM imports. So you'd be taking advantage of an existing and well-oiled logistics machine. Shipping a vehicle from Hamburg to Halifax or Vancouver is a one-off, and you're paying for a lot of people's special effort to accommodate you.

There's a guy on this forum called Olaf V., he runs a shipping company that sends cars/bikes from Hamburg to the New World - talk to him, maybe he has a shared container you can fit into?

Finally, purely out of curiosity, what kind of vehicle is worth buying in Norway and importing into Canada?