From Chennai, India to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - January, 2006

After searching the Internet, we decided to have a look at three agents.
Binny Ltd. does not provide this service anymore.
Winstar and Interfreight services seemed to be equally good at first glance.

We chose: Interfreight services,
Thambu Chetty Street No. 318 (old No.174), third floor, Chennai

Mr.I.P.Prasanna Kumar gave us the following price detail. Price in total (Indian rupees) for two bikes:

Packing Charges 5000
Ocean freight Chennai to Kuala Lumpur USD 5 P/CBM
Ocean freight Chennai to Bangkok USD 15 P/CBM
Custom documentation 2000
Examination CHGS 3000
Conveyance 1000
O.T. Charges 750
Inspection EXPS 3000
Agency 5000
Tax 10,2%

Since we liked to keep the bikes for 3 weeks in Chennai before shipping them to KL, they offered us storage in their warehouse in Chennai at no cost. They also promised to skip the tax.

So 3 weeks later we were back in Chennai and we immediately went to the office of Interfreight to get the shipping done. First the bikes had to be crated and moved to customs for inspection, so we went to the warehouse where they were stored the last three weeks. Unfortunately one mirror got broken in the warehouse, but that seemed to be the only thing what went wrong there. After preparing the bikes, we had to wait for the wooden crates and the truck to arrive. Finally at dusk everything had arrived and the crating could start. It went quiet smoothly considering the pretty high truck to get the bikes on, while the forklift was broken