Tim
If you are bringing a single vehicle in your cost of $10,000AUD is a safe number at the present time - you will probably get some change back.
Try very hard to get someone to share a container with you as it reduces costs tremendously as a 40 footer is nowhere near double the cost of a 20 footer. Put both vehicles on the same Bill of Lading in one name and you will only pay one Entry. If the agent still wants to do two Entries he is ripping you off.
I am a great believer in Roll On Roll Off and have shipped several vehicles around the world that way. Never had a scratch or as much as a mirror stolen. It is greatly cheaper than container, no packing, trucking, container charges. Just deliver it to the shipping yard, hand them the keys then 6 weeks later collect the keys at the arrival yard and drive out the gate (after fixing up the bill organised by your customs agent of course).
I have a number of times been organising for a group and have had people gasp at putting their dirty old $20,000 Jeep loose on a car carrier to be damaged. When I asked them to look around the yard at the 2,000 other brand new BMW, Mercedes and even Ferraris being loaded beside the Jeep, the smarter ones realise maybe destruction is not a common occurrence.
Lang
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