Best places to ship parts to - West Africa
 

Hi all,

I’m currently prepping for a London to Cape Town trip later this year. Anticipating something will inevitably break some where along the way which will require parts to be shipped from the UK, I’d like to get a better picture of the best places along to do that to - in terms of getting stuff through customs as easy as possible, as quickly as possible. Appreciate that I may be asking about the lesser of a variety of evils here, but I’d still like to hear.

What are people’s experiences of any particular locations, for better or for worse?

Thanks

Ed

If my plans don't implode I should be commuting between Europe and Nigeria a few times per year. Bringing parts into LOS or PHC shouldn't be a problem.

But then again it is usually out of ones control where things break down.

I had to order parts from Europe when I was in Brazzaville. I wrote about my Brazza experience here

Nico, the boss at Congo Motors, had a friend of his transport some KTM spares into Congo for me.

Got some parts by DHL to Luanda from Sydney. Very fast, no issues with customs although had the invoice value listed as (from memory) $50.

I should be in Cote d'Ivoire more permanently soon, currently there 5 months a year and have assisted a few members already.

If you need to get things to me do ask, I will probably be flying to Europe quite a bit still as well as to other cities in the sub-region

Great - thanks all. Useful to know.