Ok I have got a full quote in from some guys on both ends (Seattle & Vladivostock) these guys are reccomended on the HUBB, they handle a lot of bikes. The TOTAL to ship 4 bikes from Seattle to Vlad will be around 6800. This is a 20ft container that can hold up to 7 bikes. This includes all charges on both ends, customs, loading & securing (no crate nessesary) port fees, agent fees insurance ETC. the base container fee was only 3600. So I got with the guys on both ends to try to get all the litte fees and added everything up so there would be no surprises. The container can hold up to 7 bikes, I figured 4 but each additional bike will be an additional 400. For the bike specific fees but the 6800 would be split by more people.
The time in route will be 18-20 days it goes from Seattle to busan Korea to Vladivostock. With weekly service, let me know if any of you guys are interested!

[QUOTE=pecha72;413231]NIndeed, but all we can do is get quotes from freighters and this seems to be what they are quoting.

It would be interesting if anyone from james Cargo was monitoring this and cared to comment.

Agreed, but it is something that is out of our hands to understand. FWI I know it is £1850+ from the UK to Chile.


Rates vary with time. Currently it costs circa £700 to freight a bike by sea (RoRo) from Liverpool to Halifax

In June 2014 I will need to bring my BMW from Vladivostok to Vancouver or Seattle. What is actually the easiest + cheapest +shortest way for shipment airfreight??? Please advise, please tell me your experience: karl.freilinger@andritz.com

Karl, you can't airfreight from Vlad as the planes do not appear to be wide bodied enough.

You can ship (with the bike) via Japan or South Korea.

You will probably want to contact Yuri ( ymelnik <{ATT}> links-ltd {<DOT>} com ) in Vlad to arrange things.

There is a RoRo from Vlad-> Seattle but you cannot go with the bike.
http://www.fesco-na.com/files/na_to_russia_direct.pdf

You can take the ferry to South Korea and then have the bike flown to North America. See Wendy Choi for that.

Or, some people prefer to take a short ferry to Japan, ride across there and then a ship them to the USA.

I am travelling from Russia to USA and I have been talking to Uri at Links in Vlad since the planning stage.
He sent me this update today Feb 2014:
I hope it helps fellow travelers.
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Yuri says:
Vancouver is very popular for shipping. We ship there many vehicles and we have a good agent in Vancouver. At the moment we have no dates but have many inquiries for shipping. We will have information later. The cost depends on number of bikes in container.

Full 20' container costs $5500 (one vehicle) + $300 for every extra bike inside fro blocking/bracing and customs clearance. So you may calculate price yourself. The rate includes loading, blocking/bracing, container trucking to the port, port charges, customs clearance, OTHC, ocean freight.

The rate doesn't include washing (motorcycle must be very well cleaned for Canadian soil inspection), insurance. We can arrange washing.

Also you may go to Korea or Japan on ferry and find the way to ship from there. There is DBS ferry going every Wednesday to Donghae (Korea) and then to Sakaiminato (Japan).
The cost of bike shipping is $600-800, port charges are $100, our fee for customs clearance is $150. Tickets are around $180-250.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

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Best regards,
Yuri Melnikov
General Manager
Links, Ltd.
89 Svetlanskaya str., office 312,
690001, Vladivostok, Russia.
Tel/fax: (423)222-15-78
Tel: (423)222-08-87
Mobile: +7 902 5243447
mail to: ymelnik <{ATT}> links-ltd {<DOT>} com

Vlad to San Francisco or Bangkok?
 

Lots of great info here.
I plan to arrive in Vladivostok end of August, 1200 GSA. Looks like best bet is get to So. Korea (via ferry on Wednesdays) and find way to get from there to either back home to SF or find a way to get bike to "rest" in SE Asia until the winter.


Question 1) Anybody want to get together on a container to SF probably from SO. Korea or Japan? End of August early Sept.


Question 2) Anyone have recent experience advice on flying or shipping out from SO. Korea to US? I know Wendy can help with paperwork.


Question 3) Any info on keeping bike "easily and safely" in SE Asia? Thoughts on that.


Thanks,
Kent

"want to get together on a container"

Pardon my stupidity, but....You sure you will need a whole container to send one motorcycle?

When sending by sea, you can usually* send a crated shipment (bike, furniture, whatever is in it) and it will be calculated based on the dimensions, actual weight & volumetric weight of that particular crate. It will travel on a container in a cargo ship, but there will probably be other shipments in that container, and that´s up to the shipping company to work it out. But bottom line: you don´t pay for the whole container. Would seem complicated to me, to find so many people who want to send their bikes the same way at the same time.

*) I admit I do not know about Vladivostok specifically, but for most seaports it is this way.

I know this is an old post, but do you happen to have Wendy's contact info? I'm looking to get my bike home sometime in September.

Thanks,
Beth

this is the contact I used in 2012 for Wendy

wendychoi2 <AT> gmail [DOT] com
cheers
Geordie aka Will

Just another data point. We shipped three bikes from Vlad to Vancouver using Yuri and Svetlana. They were a pleasure to work with. The price per bike was $1800 each, of which $1600 was the ocean freight. At the Vancouver end we paid an additional $610 for each bike for a variety of charges with Gabryelle at Astra International, who is also quite nice. We dropped the bikes off in Vlad the first week of August and they arrived in Vancouver late September. Of course, YMMV!