From Bangkok, Thailand to Delhi, India - February, 2005

We would recommend this company as we compared quite a lot of quotes and they were the cheapest and are reliable (two other travellers we know shipped their bikes with Sita from BKK to Bangladesh recently and they were happy too).

The quote from Sita was:
48 THB per kg (actual weight or volumetric weight – whichever is more)
4000 THB service charge
That’s it - no dangerous goods surcharge.

We had the necessary crate made by a carpenter who was organized by Sita. In Thailand we paid 3500 THB for the carpenter plus 22048 THB for Sita. It was more than we expectet and there were 2 reasons for that.

First, the carpenter made the crate bigger than we had ordered. It was already done when we came to deliver the bike, only one of the small sidewalls and the lid had to be attached. We had ordered it 75x200x115 cm and it came in 85x218x117. So at the end the volumetric weight (376 kg) was bigger than the actual weight (309 kg).

Second, Joy calculated the volumetric weight different from what she had explained before. The 3 measurements will be multiplicated and then divided by
a factor which supposed to be 6000 and then was around 5800. We asked her why and she said something had changed and we could check with the airline. It was
not a big difference but it felt a bit strange.

Compared to the other quotes we got, Sita was still the cheapest. And we delivered the bike to the airport in time and the boys did all the paperwork
for us within 1 hour. So we shouldn't complain too much.

Maybe it's worth to find a carpenter by yourself and advise and watch him what he is doing while he is making the crate. The carpenters mistake cost us about
3200 THB and we were charged more again in Delhi for the warehouse.

In Delhi it took us only one day to get the bike cleared. We didn’t use an agent and there was not a trace of corruption. We had to pay 11 USD (551 INR) to the airline and 76 USD (3355 INR) (regarding to vol.-weight) to the airport warehouse. We got proper receipts for that.