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Originally Posted by niello8 (Post 436804)

I wish RoRo was an option from Dili! Well the saga continues and it's not good. The boat arrived on the 11th (we saw it) and the shipper said it would take 5 days to move the container to their warehouse, then they'd send us a document that would allow us to go to customs and get their inspection process going which should take another 2 days including the soil inspection. We paid all the fees. We just got a message that customs has held the container for inspection, we don't know where, and when we called customs they said that could take up to 15 business days!! This is turning into a big fat mess, y'all have no idea. We've got to be on the east coast by oct 10.

If anyone has any insights on dealing with Canadian customs (sea freight) please post. We are going to the custons office now to get a straigt answer, they were clueless on the phone. Thanks all.

Wish you had it shipped air cargo.
Singapore, Malaysia, Australsia is a big mess to ship by sea. All the ASEAN container cargo gets HUBBEd out of China, Korea and Japan. Do search here and you will find Canadian customs under North America section.

Air freight would've been heaven. Not possible out of Dili (the small planes dont do DG) and they wouldn't do a sea to air transfer without clearing it in Singapore which was all around impossible. Making progress though, customs is not holding it and the container has been moved to the warehouse. Now waiting for them to unstuff it and send us the dang form to clear it!

Hooooray! We finally got our bike back! After the shipping company stopped twiddling their thumbs & sent us the notice, we went to customs and they cleared it in 2 hrs including running out there for and inspection which we did not need to be present for. We just have them the paper at the downtown office and they called us when it was done. They did stamp our (expired) carnet. After that we popped down to the warehouse, uncrated the bike & put it back together and paid some more fees. $465 on the Canadian side altogether. Total cost $2280, 2 months. Glad that's over! Now down to LA then home to DC & our RTW is done! For now;)

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Originally Posted by niello8 (Post 437094)

Congratulations! After all the nightmares you can now continue your journey :)
I just met with Toll group and hoping that there is a boat next Thursday (already delayed for 2 days).

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! Happy cleaning;)

Merhaba Si,
Nice to hear all problems are over and you are back on the road in a different continent.
Merhaba Marko,
Happy to see you completely recovered and back on the road again..
Merhaba Jeff,
You look more younger after this asia trip..There must be a secret for that....

Which seafreight company do you recommend in Bangkok to turkey..
Within a few days, best friends hakan and şandan will be there to send the bike back to İstanbul and your experiences highly appreciated.....

All the best.