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West Aus to South America?
I've done a bit of a search here on shipping a bike (land or sea) from Perth to South America (probably Buenos Aires), Jan 2008, but can't find anything.
Anyone got any ideas/ shipping agents I could use as I'm at a total loss of where to start..

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Bruce,

I used Cargo Force who are located out near Perth International airport (don´t have the number on me).
I dealt with Nick and shipped a 1200 Bmw in a crate to Valparaiso Chile. The crate was about 3 cubic metres (cubic capacity allowed for 450kg). The quote with insurance for 30G was around $2000Aus and it cost around $500 more to deal with the Chilean end.
It arrived 5 weeks late because the original shipper rejected it as the tank had a few litres in it (I had been told less than 1/4 of a tank would be fine) and it had to be sent with another company who ended up sending it via Hamburg where it was born.
The couple of thousand I saved and the fact I have had a year to do the trip made the wait bearable but as many people have said regarding seafreight, it can take forever.
The flying option is also a bugger from W.A. as you have to pay to send the bike to Sydney on top of all the other stuffing around. I estimated about $6000 minimum, bearing in mind it is a big bike.
Hope that helps.
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Your experience is adding up to what I've found out so far. Out of interest did you get any prices (companies?) of flying your bike from Sydney to South America?
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I got some info on flying the bike from Mark and Aasha Venning (index) and Ralph Green who were all very helpful and contribute to horizons.
I can´t remember exactly what Mark and Aasha paid but I think it was close to 5G and you have to get the bike to Sydney and arrange preparation of the bike, dealing with the non dangerous goods certification (if you want a cheaper price per kilo) etc on top of that. In W.A. a non dangerous goods worker told me that according to aviation guidelines any vehicle that has ever had fuel in it cannot be certified NDG but Ralph Green managed it from Melbourne a few years back. I think Mark and Aasha shipped as DG.

I´m shipping two cars from the US to Aus later in the year plus have to send my bike home and all I have learned about shipping is that is expensive, difficult and a major pain in the arse.

Javier from Dakar Motos BsAs has told me several stories of people trying to line up several bikes being shipped in the same container to save funds and in most cases due to changes of plans etc it went pear shaped.
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Bruce I have some contact numbers for Mark & Aasha in Brisbane, email me and I will forward them to you.
They Air Freighted over (via Qantas I think) when time was of the essence and Sea Freighted back when they were in no rush to ride the bike again.

Might be a cheaper option to ride the new DL over to the East Coast as a warm up ride before SA than to ship from WA.

When I freighted to Canada last year I allowed an extra month for shipping and ended up with only 1 week up my sleeve, and that was with some inside help at the other end.

It can be done hassle free, just takes some patience. Some important advice I was given early on was to sort out the bike shipping before your own ticket. The later is the easy part.
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Check with Wallenius Wilhelmsen. I got a quote for my (Unimog/Unicat) camper of only US$240/cubic meter, including fuel surcharge; from Savannah Georgia to Brisbane. This is less than half your quote.

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