Hi All,
Just been having a look at rocket and garys posts about the sole use container and just had to relate my story.
We imported a 1530 machine from excitech in July / August.
We requested the sole use container option for the extra comfort of nothing else being able to hit the machine and also that the wharf fees were cheaper without the wharfies having to unload it out of the container. It cost us about $300 extra, but----- we thought it would be a safer option.
Well the ship arrived and then we get a call from our freight forwarder telling us that customs did a scan of the container and that they had picked up what looked like traces of grain, so customs immediately sent the container to a quarantine yard.
To cut a long story short we finally recived the machine about a week later and at an extra cost of $1295. we actually breathed a slight sigh of relief as our freight forwarder told us last time he had that happen to a cutomer it cost them over $4000.
I went up to the quarantine yard in Brisbane to have alook and the bloke said that the container hadn't been cleaned since its previous trip where it had carted grain to some where it the world, the container had grain underneath the timber crate housing the cnc and grain in all the little vents on the container which all had to be cleaned.
So just goes to show you that there is no risk free option when it comes to importing.
By the way rocket, just thought I would let you know that we bought our first cnc from Quick cnc back in 2006 and it is still going strong.
We didn't go with them this time, as as soon as we had the quick machine landed and went to set it up Quick cnc wouldn't answer any communication from us, we weren't complaining or wanting anything for the machine, we just wanted some operating help for the dsp system.
In the end we converted the machine to use Mach2.
Regards,
Neil  |