We used Willenius Wilhelmsen to ship our bikes from Southampton (UK) to Baltimore (I believe that this is the same service which begins at Bremerhaven). This was in April of this year and cost us £575 - we used UK agent HC Travel to book the boat.
Absolutely no problems at all - bikes arrived damage free. I know of other who have also used this shipping company without problem so you may have just been unlucky (or, conversely, we might njust be the lucky ones !)
Martin
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