Updated Info on Bangkok Cargo for anyone flying bikes there

[muppet8mycat]

I got my bike out of Cargo today and it is a pain free operation. There are guys at the airport hired to help you do not need to pay an agent. From the time the taxi dropped me, to the time I got to the bike was 2.5 hrs, then it took me 1.5hrs to put him all back together. These are the steps:

Take a taxi to the cargo terminal, they cannot go in but will drop you where all the guards are at what looks like a toll gate. Facing the toll gate walk down the left side on the outside of the fence i.e. you do not go into the tollgate area. Walk to the free zone security to get a security pass. You will need to ask someone and they will walk you there. You explain to the people there you need to get your bike out of cargo and they will give you a pass it costs 27bht.

They will introduce you to a guy who will walk you all the way through the process, customs, forms etc etc. The guy who helped me was very nice spoke very good English, he had his truck there so drove to customs warehouse and back it’s quite a bit of moving from here to there and the place is huge.

He will help get all the forms and the Photostats (hundreds everything in triplicate) etc. He took me 2 different cashiers 1 to pay a penalty for an amendment to the form as my address was on there, go figure, it cost me 312bht. The storage for 1 night cost me 1022 bht. These are all legit at the relevant cashiers you get Thai cargo receipts.

The guy who helped me did get very concerned that I did not have a carnet and that I would have to pay import duties, I stood my ground and said I am not buying a caret and I know I do not need to pay import duties (I am not sure if he was trying to pull something or genuinely thought I needed a cart) I just said no carnet take me to customs. He did and that went though in about 1 hr.

Most people speak some English so they just hand you over to English speaking people on the way.

After that you go fetch the bike in the warehouse

They will fork life your bike in the crate to a quite spot out of the way where you can take your time and sort it out. When you put the petrol in do it surreptitiously if you are in the warehouse as they do not like this. Also do not start your bike in the warehouse. Once packed up you must push it outside hand over the2nd last form and hop on you bike and hand over the last form at the gate (that looks like atoll) you must go through toll number 1.

Everyone is very helpful and nice. They even fork lifted my bike to help me put the front wheel on as I don’t have a centre stand. I asked the guy who helped me how much I owed him and he said no you can tip me if you like it is up to you. I gave him 500bht (16usd) as he was a great help and yes I may have been able to do it myself but it would have taken twice as long. and walking from warehouse to customs and back in this heat also worth getting help from a guy with a car

So good luck and enjoy
So enjoy Good Luck