From Chennai, India to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - January, 2010

Route
Shipment From: 
Chennai, India
Shipment To: 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Shipper details
Contact person name: 
J. Abraham Britto
Company name: 
boxcoworld
Contact person email: 
abra...@boxcoworld.com
Contact details: 

+91-9677055065
Boxco, Chennai
3rd floor, Clive battery complex
4&4a Rajaj Salai
Chennai 600 001

Travellers Impressions of the shipper
Recommended?: 
Yes
Rating: 
5/5 - Excellent
Information about this Shipment
Shipping Method: 
Sea
Shipping date: 
January, 2010
Cost Paid at Start (US $): 
660$ all included
Comments: 

Vehicle:
The bike is a side-car, a k100 with an Ural. The overall size is 6 cubic meters. It is french registered, with a carnet, but no mention of the side car itself.
This does affect the price, when it comes to the Indian cudstom inspection. To put it nicely, you pay to make it easier. It affects the price of the crating too: you need a more robust structure.

Agency:
Mr Britto was our contact. He was extremely nice, and definitely honest. The whole agency payed a lot of attention so that the shipping would go nice and smooth. If you say you were sent by Vincent and Prune, things should go fine.
Finding the agency was tricky. When you come from the north of Rajaj Salai, after the court of justice, you go straight. At some point, the road goes 45°, with a bridge on your right. You go straight, and don't follow the main road, turn 180° under the bridge. You have the entrance of the building on your left, not even 50 meters from there.

Documentation and crating:
We arrived a bit late on the first day. The guy dealing with the bike clearance was only able to clear the bike the next day. Most of the paperworks were made. During the preparation by mail, we had to send the following documents:
- Passport copy
- Fly ticket copy
- Carnet de passage copy
- Motorcycle insurance copy
- Motorcycle french documents
So, day 2: we went to the container freight station with the bike in the evening. Everything was made to have a very superficial custom inspection. We never managed to read the engine number because of the side car. But it did not seem to be too much of a problem. The wood for the crating arrived quite late (at about 6pm). We left the container freight station at about 9pm. Next day, we got the carnet back, as well as the bill of lading. And we paid cash: they do not accept credit cards. One more thing, we were lucky they needed containers on Malaysian side, so we did not pay any freight.

Cost:
Freight charges, INR
Freight charges, 0
BL charges, 500
sub total, 500
,
custom clearence charges, INR
CFS charges, 1500
Shipping bill expense, 2000
Examination process, 3000
Loading and unloading, 700
Handling charges, 5500
Crating, 9000
Agency charges, 750
Service tax, 78
Sub total, 22528
,
Destination charges, INR
THC, 340
LCL, 2380
Manifest EDI, 410
Delivery order, 1090
Agency Fee, 1770
Cost recovery, 70
Sub total, 6060
,
TOTAL: , 29.000 INR plus a few things I don't remember amounting roughly 700 INR

PORT KLANG CHARGES 77 MYR (CFS charges)

Getting the bike:
We had left the bike at Chennai Port two weeks before we got it back in Port Klang.
We decided to do the clearance by ourselves, and it was dead easy. We first went to the agency who had our delivery order, to pick it up.
We had to pick up the bike in terminal 1, but the container stayed about 4 days in terminal 2...
We took a taxi from Imperial hotel (next to the bus station) to the custom house (10 MYR). Custom house, second floor, just ask for the place where they deal with ATA carnets. There, they do all the stamping, and here you go... I insist: DIY! the agency in Port Klang charges 290$ for that!
Somebody drove us to the port. There, we went to the proper warehouse, got the documents sorted. Two steps:
- ask where you leave one of the pages of the DO
- ask where you do the documentation.
People at the port and at the custom house where amazingly helpful.
We uncrated ourselves, and gave 5 MYR to a guy to clear the wood. In warehouse B4, you have a huge bin for that, just behindf (which could be useful if you were to do the crating yourself from KL).

Helmets are compulsary in Malaysia, even in the side-car, was told my girlfriend when driving off the port.

Hope this was helpful. Any question, don't hesitate to contact me.



 

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