Just closing the loop on this.

We successfully shipped our car from Cotonou Benin to Cape Town ZA.

Our response rate to requests for quotes was something down around 20%. It's quite a frustrating process, doubly if your visa expiries are ticking down, and you're on junky internet connections and phone signals

The two consistently good communicators were Adrian referenced above, who was not comfortable quoting, and an outfit in Cape Town who we ultimately went with, called Maryan Holdings. They are at:

Etienne Van Ellewee
Executive, Maryan Holdings
+27 21 554 3778
etienne@maryanholdings.com

I have his cell number also, but don't feel comfortable publishing that -- he'll freely provide it on request, though.

Everything ran like clockwork, and the service level was A+ -- and not A+ by West African or even South African standard -- A+ by Western standard. After a few months in the bush, this was really refreshing.

Our 20' private container from Cotonou wound up being appx $3,300 USD, including handling and nonsense on both sides. This is for a car, mind you, and comparable to what we were quoted for a private container from New York to London. He also handled everything down to the last detail, and personally brought us to the port to unbox the car and ensure everything was in order. He's been a tremendous resource.

We plan to use him again for the next leg of our trip, too, which is Dar Es Salaam home again to Seattle. Thailand's new transit rules buggered our Asia plans, so we'll just do NZ/Australia instead with hired cars.

Feel free to ping me with specifics/questions if I can be helpful. I'll be adding him to the Hubb database as well.

Cheers,

- Mike

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