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London to Cape Town Shipping costs
I am looking to ride up from Cape Town to London next year, but have a problem finding accurate shipping costs.

I would like to fly my Africa Twin to Cape Town from London, can anyone recommend a good but hopefully cheap shipping company? or can some one tell me how much this route should cost?

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My trip is still in planing but I found James Cargo to be helpful thus far James Cargo Services IATA, AATA, IPATA and DEFRA approved Cargo Agent I think they quoted about GBP1000 to fly the bike out to CPT and about GBP1300 to ship it back plus a few miscellaneous charges. This included crating. I'm not quite sure why flying it out is cheaper than shipping it back surface, but there you go.


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Hi there Dmitrij

I have just completed the epic journey from London to Cape Town on a R 1200Gs 2005 Uk registered bike, carnet still valid and lots of pages left for someone to use, I have all the gear and need to either sell the lot here or send the bike via shipping back to the Uk and sell it there. Bike and all gear still in fantastic condition, so mabe its easier for you to just buy my bike and ride it back it will save you lots of hastle and costs!

If you are interested or know of someone that would be please contact me on deon.friis@gmail.com

you can have a look at my website as well www.sites.google.com/site/londontocapetown

deon, cape town

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I am interested to see your site as we are just about to depart for Capetown in a couple of weeks. The link does not work!

With regard to the carnet on your bike, is it transferrable to a new owner?

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When I asked the RAC about selling they said the Carnet is yours not the bikes. To change owners you would need an exit stamp on the old owners carnet so that was discharged, and then an entry stamp in the new owners depending on where you were going and if that new country needs the carnet. How does the new owner "buy" the funds on deposit, only accessible when the carnet is discharged? You could give the owner sufficient funds to cover it, but whats on deposit is still in their name.

So the both of you would need a carnet valid for the same vehicle at the same time, and cross the border at the same time with it so the old carnet stops and the new one starts. Hassle but doable.

From a border guards point of view if you didn't do that, would they let you travel when the document has someone elses name on it?
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