What does it cost to send a bicycle TO South Africa?
Need a Price to send a bicycle to South Africa? Earlier this week we shared prices for sending a bicycle FROM South Africa to the rest of the world (exports from our perspective). And now we are looking at what it costs to send a bicycle from the rest of the world TO South Africa (imports from our perspective). Expect another summary to follow comparing the imports vs exports afterwards. But for now we want to see the prices. Below. Let’s go!
Economy vs priority
TOP TIP: go for economy and save a small fortune! Now here the price gap between the priority freight and the economy freight becomes a wider gap. Interestingly, much wider than with the export from South Africa to the rest of the world. In short: sending a bicycle TO SA is more than double on priority than on economy. As in easily a 2.5x as much. If this was a bid/ask spread on the trading desk then you could have said that the spreads are so wide you can park a double-decker bus in there. Which means it really pays to go for the 7-9 business day service as we have quoted below. Compared to the 4-5 biz day priority service otherwise.
- Economy is 7-9 business days
- Priority is 4-5 business days
>>> From the US & Canada to SA
What does it cost to send a boxed bicycle to the USA and Canada? About R12500. Which is a bit less the sending it from SA to these countries. Which just goes to show that you have to bring your bicycle and come and cycle in sunny South Africa. Especially on the Bolandcycletour and others!
🇺🇸 East: New York City – R12500
🇺🇸 West: Los Angeles – R12500
🇺🇸 Central, Delta: Atlanta – R12500
🇨🇦 Canada: Ottawa – R13000
🇨🇦 Canada: Vancouver – R13000
>>> From the UK to South Africa
What does it cost to send a boxed bicycle from the UK to SA? About R12000. Which costs about the same as in the other direction, ie from South Africa to the UK.
🇬🇧 England: London – R12000
🇬🇧 Scotland: Edinburgh – R12000
🇬🇧 Wales: Cardiff – R12000
🇮🇪 Ireland: Dublin – R12500
>>> From the EU, Schengen to SA
What does it cost to send a bicycle from EUROPE to SA? Average R14500, which is again about the same as sending it there. So, the import/export price to/from these EU countries to South Africa are at parity. Interestingly, no prices quoted for sending from either of these 4x ie Czech, Denmark, Hungary & Latvia. Not many requests for same though. And again Iceland is the outlier price. Understandably so.
🇦🇹 Austria: Vienna – R13000
🇧🇪 Belgium: Brussels – R12500
🇧🇬 Bulgaria: Sofia – R13000
🇭🇷 Croatia: Zagreb – R15500
🇪🇪 Estonia: Tallinn – R15500
🇫🇮 Finland: Helsinki – R13000
🇫🇷 France: Paris – R12500
🇩🇪 Germany: Berlin – R12500
🇬🇷 Greece: Athens – R13000
🇮🇸 Iceland: Reykjavík – R31000*
🇮🇹 Italy: Rome – R12500
🇱🇻 Latvia: Riga – R12500
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein: Vaduz – R12500
🇱🇹 Lithuania: Vilnius – R15000
🇱🇺 Luxembourg: City – R12500
🇲🇹 Malta: Valletta – R15000
🇳🇱 Netherlands: Amsterdam – R12500
🇳🇴 Norway: Oslo – R13000
🇵🇱 Poland: Warsaw – R13000
🇵🇹 Portugal: Lisbon – R13000
🇷🇴 Romania: Bucharest – R15000
🇸🇰 Slovakia: Bratislava – R15000
🇸🇮 Slovenia: Ljubljana – R15000
🇪🇸 Spain: Madrid – R13000
🇸🇪 Sweden: Stockholm – R13000
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Bern – R12500
>>> From OZ & NZ to SA
What does it cost to send a boxed bicycle from NZ, Aus, Japan to South Africa? About R16000. Which is almost exactly the same as the exports to these countries. So the Price to send a bicycle TO South Africa is the same as the Price to send a bicycle FROM South Africa. Spot on! In our out. You decide.
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Wellington – R16000
🇦🇺 Australia: Sydney – R16000
🇯🇵 Japan: Tokyo – R16000
Done!
Next, we will show you to what to keep in mind when sending a boxed bicycle overseas. Or book to send your today.
