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Stevo2
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#128598 2017-09-13 18:44 |
# Jfernando1 : how much would it cost to ship a bare chassis, I'd imagine not much, as no shipping insurance is required. I'll pay for it if I can with somewhere between 200 to 400£V.Sorry to say, you couldn't be more wrong. (I'm gonna help you keep your RP realistic here, as I have personal IRL experience of shipping large items, albeit the other way round, i.e UK to Far East). Firstly, you have the logistics of getting the body shell to the shipping agent at the docks... in my case that is 550 Km away. Then the shell will need to be de-registered in this country prior to a bill of laden being compiled by the shipping agent (shipping agent is mandatory), then it will need to go into a 20' container which will cost by cu.m. (nothing to do with weight). It will also need to be fumigated and wrapped before going into container (if it goes as a body shell it will need palleting but as weight is not the issue it will be more cost effective to put basic running gear on it, so it can be moved and not need palleting). The cost of cu.m. in the container (I'm going back nearly 15 years here so may be different now) is roughly 100 GBP per cu.m. or part there of. When I had my car brought over it cost just over 1000 GBP for the basic shipping cost, Plus the paperwork, shipping agent fees, docking fees this end, import duties, storage fees, and finally registration. The time period was around 4 weeks on the water, a week to get the import docs sorted (can be quicker depending on your agent) then almost 6 weeks to get the car emission tested and registered (the emission testing had to be paid for in advance then wait in a queuing system). As this is just a shell, the latter part will not apply but it would still cost you nearly 1500 GBP to get the shell to Liverpool docks ready for you to collect. Cheaper to buy a shell from a breaker in UK I would think. |
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