Customs when transporting to Cape Town
 

Hi all, i need my bike in cape town by 12-11-07, can you help me :)

Ok, i found some shipping company's giving me varying services and cost's.
One with a very high price who will do everything, bike will be in a wharehouse where i can ride away, but expensive.
When just shipping it to Cape Town, no service there i get the best price of course.

But i'm really confused on the custom's and clearance things to do over there, is it possible that the ship arrive's there on 30-10-07 and i go to the port on 12-11 to pick it up and do the custom's procedure's there? Also, what is the custom's procedure all about when making a crosscontineltal sea shipping?

Please your advice on this, if i save a lot of mony on shipping i can make the travel longer :mchappy:

Of course i did the search and check the bike transport page but could not find anything specificaly on this.

You mean you looked on
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tripplan/transport/

and found

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tri...ers.php#AirSea

that describes some of the problems you will have shipping by sea ..

IF you do have the bike in port .. and not picked up it is stored in a secure area .. at your considerable cost per day stored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Customs changes country by country .. as do quarantine ...

For quarantine you want the bike clean .. really clean .. behind the bash plate, behind the swing arm .. headlight .. inside all the nooks and crannies .. clean so you can eat off it..

Customs .. consider a carnet .. see the carnet page .. For individual countries you can ask at the embassy...

You'll probably be wise to get insurance .. the minimum legaly required by that country...

Yea, i checked those story's and was looking for some specific south africa, Cape town information as it seems very hard to get a responce from SA directly.
Oh, i'm really not looking forward to cleaning the bike like that! :thumbdown:

I will get a carnet so that part will be not so hard overthere. Insurance will be done at each border where neccecary.