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Originally Posted by 300kg
Well....yes...more than 500$.
But the air freight quote doesn't include the destination charges...
(there is a bit a mistery around the air freight destination charges....)
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Airports are generally better suited for handling small shipments like yours. Problem with seaport(s) is, they are built to move shiploads (=huge volumes) of cargo, so the machinery is equally enormous. When it´s just one single package, that you´ll want to get into the ship at the sending end, and out of the ship at the other end, still that same infrastructure has to be used to get it done (usually they are not gonna treat your shipment any differently than they treat other bigger shipments). So it will probably take days at both ends, and startup costs for those big harbour machines could be substantial, even if your package handling only takes them a few minutes.
And if the place happens to be corrupt, then the process could really slow down and start to get on your nerves (and wallet..!) I don´t know about Chennai seaport, though. But unless the price difference is REALLY substantial, personally if I could afford, I´d send the bike by air. It´s not really guaranteed to go smooth as butter either, but seaport+India just sounds like a challenging combination to me. And by air, at least any delays should be much shorter.
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