From Chennai, India to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - December, 2004

the process was painless. without even seeing the bikes prasanna kumar gave us a quote. oddly he asked us what we thought we should be paying and if we were happy with his quote.
we took the bikes to the interfreight wharehouse at 1200 on the day of packing, while my wife sorted the paperwork, carnet stamping etc. at 1700 we drove to the customs wharehouse and within 1.5 hours the bikes were crated and closed. the inspection was done in the dark without a torch so was pretty quick.

one of our bikes was broken down and interfreight provided a lorry to take it from our hotel, 50 mins to their warehouse and then to the customs warehouse (the entire day).

the packing does require you to do all the taking off of any ancillary parts, but the bikes retained their hard luggage paniers in the crate.

no other monies were asked for throughout the entire process.

we paid in indian rupees. the bill of lading was in our name with an associate shipper in port klang detailed on the paperwork. they are mac-nels shipping (k.k) sdn bhd. contact amin the assistent manager.

we specified we would do the clearing ourselves in port klang.

in port kland we found mac-nels, paid them for the delivery order and took that along with our carnets to the customs house. they stamped the carnets and we went to the northport warehouse. there was a delay with the ship of one day (due to xmas), but when the crates arrived we broke them open and were away in an hour.

the costs in port klang were as follows:

lcl - 185.50
terminal handling - 26.50
manifest fees - 30.00
delivery order fee - 80.00
agency fee - 110.00
total - 432 malay ringits
(exchange rate approx. 3.7 - $1

at the warehouse we had to pay 48.00 ringit for the warehouse bill.

the quote we had to clear with an agent was approx $430 so we saved about $300 US. it was simple.please note however, in port klang the agents are a distance from the customs house which is a distance from the northport warehouse.