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I booked passage for 'Gherkin' my 800gs yesterday for a May 1 flight Toronto-Frankfurt. I will follow the bike May 2. A/C cannot book bikes more than 29 days prior to flight date. As mentioned by Otherworld, they are honouring the 2016 pricing. All in pricing is about $1150 cdn to be paid upon tendering the bike in Toronto. (Plus Dangerous goods cert about $100 cdn each way which shipper must obtain). I am also told that there is a 15 Euro 'customs' charge in Frankfurt.

Re collision / theft insurance, I wasn't planning on it with my 4 year old 60,000 km bike. If it's readily and reasonably available, I would be interested in the details, though...
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The last time I checked, Motorcycle Express was offering green card insurance with also bike theft/collision coverage
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Motorcycle Express still does. Because Im working in CDN (MotoEx is in USD), its way less expensive to go with TourInsure.de and also I read somewhere MotoEx is re-selling TourInsure's policies, which explains whyt MotoEx docs look strikingly similar to TourInsure's.
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I booked passage for 'Gherkin' my 800gs yesterday for a May 1 flight Toronto-Frankfurt. I will follow the bike May 2. A/C cannot book bikes more than 29 days prior to flight date. As mentioned by Otherworld, they are honouring the 2016 pricing. All in pricing is about $1150 cdn to be paid upon tendering the bike in Toronto. (Plus Dangerous goods cert about $100 cdn each way which shipper must obtain). I am also told that there is a 15 Euro 'customs' charge in Frankfurt.

Re collision / theft insurance, I wasn't planning on it with my 4 year old 60,000 km bike. If it's readily and reasonably available, I would be interested in the details, though...
Did you have to book before getting the dangerous goods certification or were you able to do it a lot time beforehand?
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I booked with AC Cargo yesterday, shipping out May 3. They do require your AC passenger confirmation to get the discounted rate. DG cert requires cargo inspection by a DG specialist. This will be done on my way to drop off the moto at AC Cargo.

I booked Toronto to the Ireland (Republic, not UK). Speaking AC Cargo, they said they will provide me the waybill, and I have to work with local customs to get the bike out. In addition to proof of insurance (Green Card), what else might I need? Also, I'll be traveling in and out of the EU (Eastern Bloc and Morocco). Do I need a carnet? Any advice on getting through borders without having to worry about duties?
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No carnet, no duties unless you're actually importing the bike permanently, and very few actual borders.

Get a green card which includes Morocco and the various former-Yugoslavia states if you can. An international driving permit is sometimes (very rarely) useful. So are pre-printed bits of paper listing all the relevant names, dates and numbers (registration, passport, etc. etc. etc.) which you can hand out like candy at police checkpoints. And sooner or later you'll need a home license which specifies that it includes motorcycles.

Hope that's useful.

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Some info re the Dangerous Goods cert: After you have booked with A/C and have the (AWB) Email confirmation from them, forward it to Dangerous goods Packing Dangerous Goods Packing Crating | Consultants Service Mississauga. They will complete the DG certificate and Email it to you with the 'weight' blank. When you tender the bike at AC Cargo they will fill in the exact weight per their scales. The DG people advise that it will be required to disconnect the battery leads. (PITA on an 800GS!). Payment for the DG cert can be made via Paypal. They will take $125 cdn taxes in for the service one way.
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Anyone know of a dangerous goods consultant in Calgary? I was told by AC over the phone it would be $250? A lot more than you were quoted in Toronto! I'm looking to ship early June to Frankfurt.
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The Air Canada referred DG consultant wants to charge an additional $35 if I want to ship my bike with a used fuel pack (Rotopax). It's a sniff test, but they dont care. So I started shopping and ran across this website (havent called any of the numbers):

http://www.aircargoportail.com/en/dealers/4

Let us know your results, yeah?
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Some info re the Dangerous Goods cert: After you have booked with A/C and have the (AWB) Email confirmation from them, forward it to Dangerous goods Packing Dangerous Goods Packing Crating | Consultants Service Mississauga. They will complete the DG certificate and Email it to you with the 'weight' blank. When you tender the bike at AC Cargo they will fill in the exact weight per their scales. The DG people advise that it will be required to disconnect the battery leads. (PITA on an 800GS!). Payment for the DG cert can be made via Paypal. They will take $125 cdn taxes in for the service one way.

So you never meet the DG people? They dont need to see the bike?

This in important to me because I will most lekely be out of the country when I book and I will arrive in Canada just a few days before departing.
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Rsd, I can really recommand using Motorcycle Express. I had an excellent service from them and they were quick to get everything together to ship the bike.

One advantage of Motorcycle Express is that you can ship your bike any time during the year for a reasonable price (Montreal to Paris in mid-december = 1135$US, Air Canada at that time = 4400$CAN).

One disadvantage is that panniers have to be empty.

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So you never meet the DG people? They dont need to see the bike?

This in important to me because I will most lekely be out of the country when I book and I will arrive in Canada just a few days before departing.
I was also surprised, but answer is no they don't need to see the bike. Just turn in colour copies (4) of the competed form that they Email you when you tender the bike. Give dangerousgoods a call or Email to confirm...
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Dangerous goods certificate London
Does anyone have the name of an agent who can issue a dangerous goods certificate in London? I plan to fly myself and my bike to Vancouver, does anyone have recent experience of doing this?

I have just noticed on the air Canada website says in relation to a dangerous goods certificate.

"Obtain Dangerous Goods consultant name and contact number to schedule an appointment (exceptions: UK, DUB, and CDG)" I will phone them tomorrow and find out what this means.
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