Finding a good, affordable way to ship your motorcycle overseas can be a daunting task, but if you use the suggestions given in this post, your motorcycle shipping can be as breezy as your ride.
To maintain a seamless process, it’s critical that a diligent and experienced facilitator be used. To know that you’ve found a reliable overseas motorcycle shipping company, they will help you get your bike ready for overseas, take care of ground transportation to a US port, take care of all necessary payments and paperwork with the overseas freight forwarder, keep you in the loop on all activity, and help you understand the process of getting the bike through customs by obtaining a broker at the destination country. In addition, they should take care of properly crating the bike if you plan to use air travel.
Then you need to pick how you want to transport your motorcycle overseas; ocean freight is the easiest and most cost effective way, but the downside is it will take 3 to 4 weeks in transit time. Shipping by plane only takes 1 to 2 days, but will cost you about $1,000 more.
If you choose shipping your motorcycle by ocean freight, marine insurance for partial and total loss can be obtained for bikes less than 12 years old. For bikes 12 year and above, you can only purchase a FPA policy, which is Free of Particular Average coverage. This allows you to only be covered for total loss and it comes with either a $250 or $500 deductible.
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