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Hi,
FYI, we are Lithuanians, so we used Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai) to ship the car from Irkutsk to Vilnius. www litrail lt
We paid around 2.5k EUR for the container and only one car could fit in. Lithuanian Railways dealt with all the bureaucracies - we just left the car in an agreed secured parking place near Irkutsk and flew home. We did not find any cheaper alternatives at the time.
We left the car in October and it got delivered only in May. There were some coordination issues and once an empty container arrived. Anyway, this was not our problem
P.S. I've heard that some people parked their cars in a parking place in Irkutsk and simply flew back home. I am pretty sure you can't do this in Mongolia as the car owner is not allowed to leave the country. But we could all leave Russia with a paper that our car is parked in a parking lot. Not sure how viable/legal this option is, but might be worthwhile asking around
Enjoy the rally!
Kind regards,
Paulius
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Originally Posted by ppikelis
Hi,
FYI, we are Lithuanians, so we used Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai) to ship the car from Irkutsk to Vilnius. www litrail lt
We paid around 2.5k EUR for the container and only one car could fit in. Lithuanian Railways dealt with all the bureaucracies - we just left the car in an agreed secured parking place near Irkutsk and flew home. We did not find any cheaper alternatives at the time.
We left the car in October and it got delivered only in May. There were some coordination issues and once an empty container arrived. Anyway, this was not our problem
P.S. I've heard that some people parked their cars in a parking place in Irkutsk and simply flew back home. I am pretty sure you can't do this in Mongolia as the car owner is not allowed to leave the country. But we could all leave Russia with a paper that our car is parked in a parking lot. Not sure how viable/legal this option is, but might be worthwhile asking around
Enjoy the rally!
Kind regards,
Paulius
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Hi mate,
Do you know how much it might cost to sent 2bikes from Lithuania to Irkutsk?
Also any websites or contact where we can find some more informations?
Thanks
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I'm sorry for resurrecting this thread, but it kept popping up on top while I was searching for the exact same thing a few years ago.
In the end, I've found a Russian company that transports cars across Russia way cheaper than any freight to Europe. The quote from Irkutsk to Sankt Petersburg in 2018 was around 650 EUR and the company is https://titantransauto.ru .
I've also written a blog post about how it all went, here: https://rtw.to/shipping-a-car-across...of-the-country
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Shipping / Airfreight from Switzerland to Russia (Irkutsk or Barnaul)
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Hi everyone,
I am interested in sending 1 motorcycle (Swiss Number Plate) to Irkutsk or Barnaul from Zurich (Switzerland). (Maybe NEXT YEAR) I am collecting information to see if it is possible or not.
Do you know any Transport-Company to could do this Shipping??
Thank you.
E-mail: adolfo35@gmail.com
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Is the transportation information still relevant? I need to transport a car from Irkutsk to St. Petersburg. I wonder how long it’s going to take and how much money I will have to pay. I have a Nissan Skyline I bought from Japan, and I want it near my house in St. Petersburg. I want the car to be absolutely safe because it’s a precious model that’s totally unique. I haven’t seen anything like this in my city before, and I want to be the first one with such a car.
I want it to be well documented and as sealed as possible for the locals not to try to see what’s inside.
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