From Bangkok, Thailand to Kathmandu, Nepal - May, 2003

IMPORTANT : The document 'Dangerous Good Fees' was obtained in 3 days! May be you can get it earlier with some dollars?

We have been to the cargo airport and went to Thai cargo Offices. They wanted us to contact an agent to do all the work and had to insist to do the paper ourselves. They gave us a paper for Dangerous Good fees that we had to give to the Security office at the international airport. This document was delivered in 3 days.

We contacted then a crate company which did the two crates in 3h. Very good job! We can recommend them.
PT air-Sea Packing, contact : Virat Puangthong - tel 01 8158166 - pt_p...@hotmail.com about 10 min from the airport. (Make sure they give you a quotation before to do the work) They took the crates to the cargo terminal. The people of Thai were really helpful. For the custom it was a bit harder as nobody knew what to do and in which office we had to go!!! But after 1h30 we got all the papers. (you will find the cost below).

In Katmandu we had to go to Thai Cargo office (close to the international airport) and then to the cargo terminal. There we had to take an agent because all the papers are in Nepali. As we had no CARNET DE PASSAGE they didn't want to let our scooters out. We saw all the custom chiefs but NO WAY! There was one solution but we had to pay round 50 or 100 us$ for one month.

We decided to wait and make the carnet in France as after we are going to India which seems even more regarding on this bloody CARNET. After 1 month we received the Carnet.

At the terminal cargo they wanted to charge us for the warehouse cost. We had to negotiate not to be charged! It took us 5h to take our scooters out (it was the meeting day for them...).

Dimensions of the crates: - 2 crates ( 1.99 x 1.25 x 0.7 ) 80us$ ' => 578Kg equivalent to volume (2* 1.99*1.25*0.7 / 6000000000)'

Cost in BKK (1Us$ = 42Baths)
- Freight : 57 Bath/Kg
- Fuel : 3 Bath/Kg
- Insurance : 2 Bath/Kg
- Documentation Bkk : 180 Baths
- Documentation Katmandu : 0.86 Bath/Kg
- customs in Bkk : 0 Cost in Katmandu (1us$ = 75Roupis):
- custom form : 25 Rupees
- Handling cost : 190 Rupees
- People who helped us opening the crate : 100 Rupees
- Custom Broker : 200 Rupees