My 2c worth...tried to get myself and bike from Europe to Africa recently. Was in Greece so looked at shipping Athens to Port Alexandria in Egypt. After nearly a month of emailing, phoning many many freight forwarders, and trying to determine the process involved in clearing the port in Egypt with ZERO response I moved onto air freight options to Egypt (still fraught with wild extortion/bureaucracy) or Sudan. Ditto: vacuum of any response or reliable info available. And others reports of the frustrations of unknown spurious charges and crazy days to week long delays for administration and corruption. All in all it is cheaper for me to backtrack to Morocco and go that way.
That said - this IS adventure motorcycling. The bigger the hill the more satisfying it is to overcome.
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