From San Francisco, United States to Val Paraiso, Chile - December, 2011

Agunsa is freight forwarder that specializes in Chilean Shipments. They have several offices in Chile and they are well known there.

I shipped two KLR 650's from San Francisco, CA to Valpairso, Chile.
Bikes were sent LCL (less than container load). This means that we shared/rented the space with other people, all of which was organized by Agunas. Their fees included 3 original Bill of ladings, customs documentation, and booking with the ocean carrier. Total orgin costs were $1200 for the two bikes ($600 per bike). Destination charges were about another $600 total ($300 per bike), which gets the $900 per bike estimate.
Destination charges included the unloading of the container from vessel, deconsolidation (removing freight from container) and warehouse handling charges. Warehouse handling can be consider the fees for storing the bikes once they were taken off of the vessel and unloaded from the container. All in all Agunsa was very easy to work with. The communication around all the destination charges wasn't as straight forward as I had hoped and there was some miscommunication in the process to retrieve the bikes, but those were dealt with. The prices was much better than anyone else, which helped me look past any miscommunication.

Please feel free to ask any questions and I'd be happy to help answer questions on the process, and or contacts.

Kurt