potfish

Hi

Looking for a rough guesstimate how much it'd be likely to cost to ship a Toyota Land Cruiser from Australia to Europe. Anyone got any idea?

A web search comes up with a gazillion hits but each one has a form to fill in for a quote where you have to put exact details of where from and to, dates etc. I'm looking for a really rough idea. Speed not important.

Thanks
Martin

2kturkey

I think you'd be up for around AUD$7.5k, definitely shouldn't be more than 10k - hope this helps.

Frisky

Martin,

Here's an idea for you, contact a shipping company in the UK and ask them because they send containers regularly from the UK to Oz and of course they have to go back again ... usually empty! So if they can get some use and money out of that return trip they are quite happy.

Try European Van Lines based in Staines (www.evl.co.uk), we used them for our shipment down here and they are quite reasonable. A container will cost less than 1k pounds.

Your biggest costs will be import duty of course, shipping is the easy part!

- Adam

potfish

Thanks both. There won't be import duties to worry about as it'll be a UK vehicle. We're doing the preliminary planning for an overland trip from London to Sydney

RedRover

Hi Potfish, Sounds like a great adventure.

Do you have a preliminary route yet? I saw the BBC Michael Palin in the Himalayas series on TV recently and thought that would be the trip of a lifetime.

How will you do the last leg onto the Australian mainland?

potfish

Well we know the route we want to do, now working out if it's possible. There are lots of obstacles in terms of security hotspots, unsympathetic governments and expensive sea crossings so the route might have to be modified, but the idea is down to Turkey via the Balkans, dog-leg down to Egypt and back then across Iran and Pakistan to India, through Nepal and China then down through S.E. Asia. The vehicles would be shipped from a suitably close point of Indonesia to Darwin - looking at that now too so suggestions welcome.

I'm working on a website in parallel and once it's done I'll post a link.

Cheers
Martin

RedRover

Have you considered coming down through Thailand & Malaysia to Singapore and shipping from there? If you go through Indonesia there will be a lot of island hopping.

2kturkey

I did that trip in reverse 28 years ago on a motorcycle.

Ship bike to Singapore from Melbourne
Ride to Bangkok and airfreight to Calcutta - you still can't traverse Burma by land so take that into account in your itinerary.
Europe via India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey
Greece to UK with a lot of Europe in between
UK to Poland via Spain - saw a lot on this trip.
UK to bottom of Africa via Sahara - boy that desert was fun on a road bike.
Shipped bike back to Australia from Mombasa (Kenya).

The only thing I question is the need for a LandBruiser -if you're a frog I'd go for an old deux cheveaux or Renault R4 - they're far more practical vehicles for a journey of this nature.

potfish

Nothing wrong with the idea of island hopping through Indonesia is there?

And no I am sure a Land Cruiser isn't necessary, some people do it on a bicycle, but we want to go off the beaten track a little bit along the way. Also I've got used to having a little comfort which I'm reluctant to TOTALLY give up.

By the way I'm not a frog, I'm an expat rosbif!

AusS2000

Is that because it's gone missing and someone has dropped Myanmar in it's place?