From Sydney, Australia to Buenos Aires, Argentina - August, 2010

I turned up without a booking since I was told that would be fine by the sales people on the phone, for future reference you must have a booking through reservations for two reasons
- to get space allocated since this is a busy air freight route since there are few shipping routes from Australia to South America
- A customs inspection must be arranged. I did this myself (and you may need to as well) by walking over to customs house from the freight terminal and getting in the queue for a customs officer. I used my carnet but def worth finding out if you don’t have to use one to get an Aus reg bike out of the country. You will need to ring customs and find out.

The people at the freight desk know their stuff (worth visiting them a day beforehand make your documentation is in order), I found the people on the 1300 number did not know that much and I rate their service as epic fail but the people at the freight terminal as top class hence my final rating as 3.

Breakdown of costs (items in order)

Australian Side
- Dangerous good certificate = $100 AUD (I used DGM, 32 Ricketty St, Mascot 02 9669 4811)
- Freight charge from quantas (by weight only) = $2538 AUD

Argentinean Side
- 2 months Argentinean Local Insurance = 100 ARP(From ATM 930 Sarminento, Capital Federal BA. This cannot be sorted abroad and must be arranged before you go and try and pickup your bike. Alternatively Sandra at Dakar Motos can arrange it for you amongst other things.
- Get airway bill documents from freight office at BA airport = 480 ARP
- Clearance fees from Arg Customs = 1157 ARP

Total cost ~$3100 AUD + carnet $900 ARP