Hello everyone,

I'm doing at the moment a motorcycle of 20 months and I recently had to send my bike by plane from Kathmandu in Nepal to Bangkok in Thailand. I would like to share my experience.

The sending by air from Nepal to Thailand is a classic, you will find in Kathmandu two companies: Eagle Eyes Export and Eagle Export. Both companies are in the same street in the tourist district of Thamel.
After contacted them by email, I quickly received a detailed response from the 2 companies.

The estimates were similar, although Eagle Export was slightly cheaper. I visited the two companies and finally opted for Eagle Export.

Eagle Export is managed by Suraj, a man who worth to be known and who speaks a perfect English. Very quickly and without wooden language, he answered all my questions about the shipment and especially the price. No charges have been hidden and everything has been clearly explained.

Eagle Exports handles everything with an impressive professionalism.
The shipment is organized as follows:

1) Accurate measurement of the dimensions of the motorcycle
2) Estimation of the shipping price and choice of a date
3) A few days later, you go to the cargo area of the airport, the various parts of the box were ready. Within 2 small hours, the motorcycle was crated (every centimeter has been removed to reduce the volume of the box). The paperwork has been handled in parallel and the customs came to check everything.
4) The bike is gone at the due date without any concern

Everything has been done quickly and without a hitch. It was clear that the team was used to do it.

Suraj has even managed my flight ticket. I tried by myself to find the most attractive price but he offered me an even more competitive ticket.

But what is even more awesome with Eagle Export is that the service does not stop with the shipment of the motorcycle. You really create links!

Suraj offered me quickly his generous hospitality. I slept several nights in his house in the north of Kathmandu where I met his adorable family. I have been invited to eat many times and enjoyed his valuable tips to explore the city. He even helped me to organize the rest of my trip. Suraj is very generous and always responds positively when you ask for his help.

My bike is a BMW 700GS, the weight of the sending was 363 Kgs and it cost me about 600 euros.

I highly recommend!

To request information, Suraj's contact details:

Suraj Dhakal
Eagle Export
( Exactly Next to Kathmandu Guest House)
Chaksibari Marg,Thamel-29, Kathmandu, Nepal
E-mail: eagleandsunnepal@gmail.com
eagleexport98@yahoo.com
Eagle Export Cargo

Tel. +977 01 4701022
Cell. +977 9851 13 68 24, +977 9818 89 99 90, +977 9841325328 (Suraj)




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Bonjour à tous,

J’effectue à l’heure actuelle un tour du monde à moto de 20 mois et dans le cadre de celui-ci j’ai été amené à envoyer ma moto par avion de Kathmandu au Népal à Bangkok en Thaïlande. Je souhaiterais vous faire part de mon expérience.

L’envoi par avion du Nepal à la Thaïlande est un classique et beaucoup le savent, à Kathmandu 2 sociétés se partagent le marché. Il s’agit de Eagle Export et de Eagle Eyes Export. Ces deux sociétés se trouvent dans la même rue du quartier touristique de Thamel.
Après les avoir contacté par email, j’ai très rapidement reçu une réponse détaillée des 2 sociétés.

Les devis étaient similaires, bien que Eagle Export soit légèrement moins cher. Je me suis rendu au sein des deux sociétés et est finalement opté pour Eagle Export.

Eagle Export est géré par Suraj, un homme qui vous le coup d’être connu et qui parle un parfait anglais. Très rapidement et sans langue de bois il a répondu à toutes mes questions concernant l’envoi et surtout le prix. Aucun frais n’a été caché et m’a été clairement expliqué.

Eagle Exports s’occupe de tout avec un professionnalisme impressionnant.
L’envoi s’est organisé de la façon suivante :

1) Mesure précise des dimensions de la moto
2) Estimation du prix d’envoi et choix d’une date
3) Quelques jours plus tard, rendez-vous à la zone cargo de l’aéroport, les différentes parties de la caisse étaient toutes prêtes. Il a suffit de 2 petites heures pour que la moto soit mise en caisse (aucun centimètre pour réduire le volume de la caisse n’a été épargné), pour que la paperasserie administrative soit gérée en parallèle et que les douanes viennent vérifier le tout.
4) La moto est partie à la date prévue sans aucun souci

Tout s’est déroulé rapidement et sans accros, le tout dans la bonne humeur. On voit très vite que l’équipe a l’habitude. Ils sont rôdés.

Suraj s’est même occupé de mon billet d’avion. J’avais pourtant cherché par moi même le prix le plus intéressant, il m’a proposé un billet encore plus compétitif.


Mais ce qui est encore plus génial avec Eagle Export c’est que le service ne s’arrête pas à l’envoi de la moto. Vous créez vraiment des liens !

Suraj m’a très vite offert une généreuse hospitalité. J’ai ainsi dormi plusieurs nuits au sein de sa maison au nord de Kathmandu où j’ai côtoyé son adorable famille. J’ai été invité à manger à de nombreuses reprises et ai pu bénéficier de conseils précieux pour découvrir la ville et même organiser la suite de mon voyage. Suraj a le cœur sur la main et répondra toujours positivement lorsque vous lui demandez son aide.

Ma moto est une BMW 700GS, l’envoi faisait 363 Kgs et m’a coûté environ 600 euros.

Je recommande chaudement !!!

Pour une demande d’infos, voici les coordonnés de Suraj :

Suraj Dhakal
Eagle Export
( Exactly Next to Kathmandu Guest House)
Chaksibari Marg,Thamel-29, Kathmandu, Nepal
E-mail: eagleandsunnepal@gmail.com
eagleexport98@yahoo.com
Eagle Export Cargo

Tel. +977 01 4701022
Cell. +977 9851 13 68 24, +977 9818 89 99 90, +977 9841325328 (Suraj)

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BMW 700GS

Hello,
I am also with my F800 is KTM at the moment and want to shop to Thailand.
Could you please briefly explain me, how to proceed once you arrive in Thailand to get the bike out of customs ?
Thanks
Uli

Hi!

For your bike in Thailand it will be quite easy and take approximately 1 day.
You will first have to go to the cargo section of the airport. There is a shuttle from the airport to the cargo section. Ask to the staff they will help you. Of course there is also a lot of taxis.
In the cargo station you will first have to go to the entrance. You will have to give your passport, fill a form and pay something like 30 baths. They will give you a ticket.
You need to go after to the office of Thai airways (I think you used this company to send your bike). They are very helpful and will explain you everything. Ask for their office.
You will have to fill different forms, photocopies etc... and go after to the customs office (yes you will walk a lot) where they will also have to fill a lot of documents.

When I did it for my motorcycle I didn't know what to do so I've been directly to the customs and they started the process before I go to Thai airways. Maybe it helped to do it that way, it was probably quicker.

With all the documents you will finally take your motorcycle, the customs will look at the different numbers on the bike and that's it!

Thailand doesn't use the 'Carnet de passage en douane' but it was still useful to have it. If you need to eat there is a very good and very cheap cafeteria inside the cargo section. You need to buy tickets with some points on it, and you can buy food or drinks with the points.

Hope it was helpful for you.

Guillaume

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BMW 700GS

We have the same bad experiences like the Thread starter.

Eagle Export Cargo / Suraj Dhakal: Untrustworthy. Incapable. Abusive.

We a talking about this company:

Eagle Export Cargo

https://www.facebook.com/Eagleexportcargo?fref=ts

Just want to write down my bad experiences end of September t'ill Dezember 2014 with Eagle Export Cargo / Suraj Dhakal in Kathmandu, Nepal, which cost me an my friends lot’s of wasted time and much more money.

I arrangend a shipping of 5 motorbikes by sea a half year before we arrived in Kathmandu in September 2014. Everything should be no problem, price was fixed on 660 USD per bike.

The motorbikes should be transported from Kathmandu via transit through India and be shipped by sea from Colgatta harbour to Hamburg harbor.

When we arrived in Kathmandu we met a friendly guy, the owner of Eagle Export Cargo: Suraj Dhakal. All the paperwork was done fast, he invited us to his home, spend and food. Asked us, if we could take another bike of a dutch guy with us to minimize his harbour cost. We agreed.

Everything looked perfect. 5 days before we left Kathmandu we packed the 6 bikes with his carpenter in wooden crades at the airport cargo export building.

First problems occured, because Eagle Export Cargo / Suraj Dhakal was not able to get the bikes cleared by the local customs. In addition he had ordered an open truck and not a sealed truck for sealed crades, after custom clearance, just to save his money.

So Eagle Export Cargo / Suraj Dhakal send our bikes without any custom clearance to the Nepal/Indian border. He told us everything is fine, we signed a couple of authority letters to let him do all the custom work.

Then we left Kathmandu in the hope, that everything should run fine.

But it did not. Five weeks after we arrived back in Germany we asked Eagle Export Cargo / Suraj Dhakal about the status quo of our shipping and the whereabout of our stamped carnet de passages.

After one long week of silence he answered, „that the Indian custom has rejected the bikes shipment to use their land to ship to hamburg.“ And that this happened the fist time, that he’s not able to ship by sea and that the only way of shipping is by air.

An of course, that we have to pay the balance between shipping by sea and the aircargo, another 560 USD, so 1220 USD per bike, in total 7320 USD for the shipment! (Compare to a 20“ seacontainer, which you can ship from Colgatta to Hamburg and your hometown for about 2000 USD)

5 weeks the bikes were stored in an so called „safe warehouse“ at the Nepal/India border. Photos showed an open building with access from outside and workers. It took another 6 weeks to bring back the crades to Kathmandu airport, do the custom clearance and ship the bike with Thai Airways to Munich.

Using Thai Airways for sending the bikes, he’s hiding his profit on the Air Waybill as H / C fee (Handling and crading) so that it looks like cost of the airline. In our case 950 USD! Other customers reported this behaviour too.

So Eagle Export Cargo / Suraj Dhakal

-failed in shipping through india,
-failed to ship by sea,
-failed in giving us information,
-waisted our time
-charged us more money than we ever told or that we were willing or able to pay
-needed more than 2 ½ month to ship our bike (by plane)

But the worst thing was a facebook abuse warnig, end of November:

In Kathmandu, Eagle Export Cargo / Suraj Dhakal offered me his Android tablet in his house to check some mails and to post my facebook status. After i left Kathmandu he abused my facebook account and read all my messenger conversation with my friend belonging his faults in shipping. Suraj Dhakal spyed in my facebook account and obtained unfaithfully information.

So be warned to make any bussines with Eagle Export Cargo / Suraj Dhakal.

Do not trust this friendly looking, speaking and acting man.

Do not pay him money for shipment by sea, he could not realize.

Don’t believe his friendly occur: he just want’s to make business, want’s to sell you needles insurances, travel trips arround Kathmandu etc.

In a resort in Chitwan Natinal park, which he recommended and sold, my friends got stolen money and smartphones. Of course its not his personal responsibility, but it's hard to believe, that it happened the first time.

For shipping a motorbike by plane from Kathmandu, you do not need his help. If there is really no way in shipping by sea via India, just organize a local carpenter to make a wooden crade for the motorcycles and do all the paperwork with the airline yourself.

You safe time, nerves, a lot of money and you can be sure that your bike is shipped.

See our AWB with the hidden H/C cost of Eagle Export Cargo:

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Everything went well. Flight from Kathmandu to Bangkok in October 2013.

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Would those who have shipped from Kathmandu in the last couple of years PLEASE post your experience on the Shipping Database: submit information on a shipment YOU HAVE MADE here so that the details and costs can be easily found.

Also, here is some very well done info on the two shippers of note, Eagle Eyes Export and Eagle Export.

Note that Eagle Eyes Export (Jeewan) is the old one that has been much reported on for years with generally good reviews, and Eagle Export (Suraj) is the newer one with more mixed reviews.

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my experience with Suraj was good
From Auckland, New Zealand to Kathmandu, Nepal - September, 2014 | Horizons Unlimited

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Doesnt every bank, Insurance company or car company etc tryes to do so as well? We live in a free world with free prices. People who are lazy and take the first quote, allways pay more...specialy in Africa & Asia.

If you dont fly your bike around the globe, but buy 125cc bikes and sell them or rent cheap bikes for 5 Dollars per day in every country, it will be waaaayyy cheaper anyway


http://schoene-motorradreisen.de/?re...and_chiang_mai

If anyone ever wants to ship his bike from India to Europa or other way round, please send me a PN. I would love to ride the bike there for free

Eagle Export in Kathmandu whith Suraj is a good idea, very good service in 17/3/23, my bike BMW GS f800 355kg cost 1.180€. to Bangkok. Nepal Air. Good job.

Very good price to Bangkok - last I saw was $6,000 USD! You did good to negotiate a reasonable price out of Kathmandu.

At Bangkok Customs did you have to hire an agent to process your import papers and receive your motorcycle 30 day TIP? If so, at what cost?

Did Thai Customs require a CDP?

Were you required to purchase and show proof of third party (liability) insurance for the time you will be in Thailand? If so, where was it purchased and at what cost?

Were you required to file a plan for your travel in Thailand and hire a government guide to accompany you on that plan. If so, at what cost?

Finally, how many days did it take you to get your motorcycle our of the Customs warehouse and gated compound and on the streets in Bangkok?

Regards,

Dr. G, # 9 on the 2023 leg of the: The World Motorcycle Adventure Tour and Travel Rally

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July 2022 I shipped my KTM 690 with Eagle Export in Kathmandu to Vienna. Everything went fine. Expect cost of about 2.500.- USD.

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