Storage of motorcycle crates in Auckland?

[Panny]

Hi,

as mentioned in other post, I made here, we are a german couple riding around the world with two Honda Transalps.

On 3rd of march we´ll arrive in Auckland. Our bikes come in by plane from Chile.
They are crated.

We´ll need those crates again by end of may, when we sent the motorcycles by sea freight to Brisbane (AUS).

In theory it´s easy: we´d like to keep those crates and save the money for new ones.
In reality it might be more difficult.
At the moment I have no idea, if and how I´ll be able to get them out of the cargo airport and where to store them during our time in NZ.

Any help or idea is very welcome!

Cheers

Panny

[sinfull]

Of course being kiwibiker someone will come along with a van and some space in their garage up Auckland ways, but if all else fails google lock up storage, they often have a light truck you can use for carting gear to and from the lockup and the room you'd need to flat stack a couple of bike crates would be inexpensive

[White trash]

I doubt very much you'll be able to uncrate your bikes at AKL Intl airport anyway. What I'd suggest, is you ask nicely at some of the freight forwarders (Mondiale Freight Services have some KB members) and see if they'll kindly transfer your crated bikes to there Customs bonded stores and let you unpack them after customs clearance, store the crates for you until your trip's over, and allow you to repack them in their yard.

The other benefit of this is Mondiale have a weekly seafreight consolidation service to Brisbane and probably the cheapest rates in New Zealand.

Win/Win situation.

[Panny]

I doubt very much you'll be able to uncrate your bikes at AKL Intl airport anyway. What I'd suggest, is you ask nicely at some of the freight forwarders (Mondiale Freight Services have some KB members) and see if they'll kindly transfer your crated bikes to there Customs bonded stores and let you unpack them after customs clearance, store the crates for you until your trip's over, and allow you to repack them in their yard.

The other benefit of this is Mondiale have a weekly seafreight consolidation service to Brisbane and probably the cheapest rates in New Zealand.

Win/Win situation.

Hi White Trash!

That was my first idea. Allready asked Katie if that is possible. Since she´s on holidy I haven´t received an answere so far.

Mondiale is indeed my first choice for shipping from NZ to AUS. So if anybody reads this, who works for Mondiale can help I would be most grateful + reward inofficially with beer:-)

Why do you think, I can´t uncrate the bikes at the cargo airport?

Cheers

Panny

[White trash]

Hi White Trash!

That was my first idea. Allready asked Katie if that is possible. Since she´s on holidy I haven´t received an answere so far.

Mondiale is indeed my first choice for shipping from NZ to AUS. So if anybody reads this, who works for Mondiale can help I would be most grateful + reward inofficially with beer:-)

Why do you think, I can´t uncrate the bikes at the cargo airport?

Cheers

Panny

Katie's awesome, if she's on holiday maybe email Megan Speight, not sure who'd be covering Katies workload to be honest.

The reason I'd say you wouldn't be welcome to unpack at the airport is the only area open to public access is the loading zone for all the airfreight, it's the busiest loading bay in New Zealand with only 8-10 truck spaces. Then you'd have to arrange for the crates to be moved anyway. Better to just get it moved somewhere a little easier to unpack.

[Gremlin]

Find out from your carrier where you will be picking up the bikes, and whether you can ride them away, or have to trailer them away, to them sort them out somewhere else. I'd be looking to store the crates wherever they get unpacked and asking the associated people if you can store the crates there. They should pack quite flat?

Also makes it easier when it comes time to pack them up again, as you reverse the process. I wouldn't think you'd want to be carting them around Auckland?

My bike didn't return to NZ in a crate, but I was able to assemble in the Mainfreight warehouse (Mainfreight transported my bike from the US), and because the bike is an NZ bike, I could ride away.