From Port Klang, Malaysia to Durban, South Africa - April, 2010

Well, shipments by sea overall are a pain in the ass! It's even difficult to find anyone responding to you mails at all!

Last April we sent our bikes, a Transalp 600 and an Africa Twin, from Malaysia to Cape Town, South Africa.

1$ (Assir) and Abul are 2 brothers and the contact was very nice, fast and straightforward during the whole proces. 1$ does a lot of adventure traveling himself (www.4x4worldexplorer.com) and is very willing to help others. In Malaysia everything went very well.

We intend to send the bikes to Cape Town, but in South Africa there was a delay from at least 2 weeks and then the bikes would arrive in Durban where it should cost another week to transport them to Cape Town. So we decided to rent a car, drive to Durban and pick the bikes up in Durban ourselves.

Again, it was very difficult to find an agent who could help us to get the bikes out of the docks for a reasonable price (they vary enormous).

Finally we found a good guy whom I also would like to recommend:

Mr. Das Ramsunder
Cosmo Africa Logistics Cc
410 Doone House, 379 Smith Street, Durban, 4001
P.O.Box 489, Durban, 4000
Tel 031 3071266
Fax 031 3071270
Cell 0820536371
E.Mail d...@cosmoafrica.co.za
d...@cosmoafrica.co.za

All in all, it was quite a hassle, but I feel the Malaysian guys helped us all the way. They even helped us with other things, like getting our money back from a bank, which wrote off a cash withdraw from our account which never came out of the ATM (just another story).

So yes, I would use their services again!

If you want to know more or see the whole shipment bill, PM me.