Almaty customs clearance.
 

I am freighting my bike to Almaty next month. Anybody here have any experience in clearing a bike through customs? Any agents you can recommend to ease the process? Any insight gratefully received.
Cheers all.

I recently spoke to www.motofreight.com about this very subject and they are quite knowledgeable. That said I was proposing to ship the bike via them.

In 2012 a bike of mine went with 11 other bikes in a container from Holland to Almaty. I was merely a "paying passenger". Others did the organising/ legwork.

Our receiving agent was MORY LDI KAZAKHSTAN in Almaty. You'll have to Google their contact details. Don't know if they still even exist 11 years later...

I recall everything went seamlessly, including being met off my flight at Almaty airport by their representative where the customs paperwork for my bike's entry was done before taking a taxi to the hotel. A day or 2 later we were taken to a freight depot where we unloaded the container.

In 2019 I shipped another bike from South America to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan (only a couple of 100 km from Almaty...) via Warsaw in Poland with www.advfactory.com I can recommend them. Everything was done by them and very easy. Tell Sambor I sent you :thumbup1:

Thanks both. I was going to use Sambor, but his cargo was too early for me this year. I will try and find info on the guy you mentioned Chris. I have contacted Motofreight to get a comparative quote.
Cheers.

Chris; I can find no trace of your contact. I guess they have ceased trading. I've fired off emails to several prospective agents. See what comes back.
Motofreight came in with a quote £500 more than what I was quoted elsewhere; oh well........!
Anyone else with any potential contacts?
Cheers.

That's a shame.

If you haven't already done so: try Horizonsunlimited and Overland to Asia Facebook groups. You'll have a 10.000 fold more eyeballs looking at your question there.