Manual .... PART 3 (Verschiffung)

Blaz Miheljak , Montag, 30. April 2007, 22:07 (vor 6206 Tagen) @ Blaz Miheljak

Germany:
1. We stoped at the Hamburg MSC office first, to pay the local terminal costs and to check where the container is... It was a bit hairrising, when the guys there told us, that there is a slight problem. The problem was, that the container was still in Bremerhaven, where it was unloaded from the ship and that it can take up to one week (!!) to get it to Hamburg. They didn't give us any believable explanation for this delay, because normaly this transfer takes only one day. But at the end we managed to stop the container in Bremerhaven and took the train there. We payed to German MSC 196 €, and they gave us the Freibescheinigung (or something like this...)

2. Bremerhaven port. We called ahead to Container Freight Station, which does the deconsolidation, and without any problems they prepared the bill (203 € for unpacking both cars), and when we got there, paid the bill, waited for some half an hour and our cars were delivered. We couldn't witness opening the container, and they drove them out and to the parking lot in front of their office - maybe with some persuasion even that would be possible. While driving out of the port area their is a customs post, but they didn't bother looking in our cars or anything else... so all our wine was free at home ;)

All together we were finished around 4 pm, including 2 hour train ride from Hamburg to Bremerhaven. A piece of advice, as is already obvious from the above - make sure where your ship is going and book only to the first port, any additional transfers can complicate and delay the delivery. And I think that all MSC ships from south america stop only in Bremerhaven, although there is also Hamburg on their schedules...

Have fun and good luck with shipping...

Blaz