SEA FREIGHT TO KIRIBATI

“SEA FREIGHT FROM AUSTRALIA TO TARAWA”

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“Shipping containers to Kiribati, with cars, machinery, building materials”

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“Over 20 years experience shipping to Kiribati”

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Welcome to CargoMaster, are you thinking of  Shipping to Kiribati. Our high performance team of  Kiribati Sea Freight  service specialists offer many years’ experience shipping containers to Kiribati and surrounding islands. CargoMaster is one of Australia’s most trusted shipping companies from Australia to Kiribati.

ABOUT KIRIBATI:

Kiribati, (known officially as the Republic Of Kiribati) is an island nation located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about 4,000 kilometers southwest of Hawaii. Kiribati has a total population of approx. 120,000 people. The capital of Kiribati is Tarawa with a population of about 60,000 people. Kiribati is made up of 32 atolls and one coral island. The total land area of the island nation is approx. 800 square kilometers. Kiribati is well known around the world for its spectacular scuba diving and fishing. The largest atoll (and one of the largest in the world) is Kiritimati (or Christmas) Atoll , it has a land area of 150 square miles (388 square km) and accounts for almost half of the country’s total area. In the 1960’s Christmas Atoll was used by the USA and British for testing nuclear weapons. These days, it has a large coconut plantation and fish farms.

Kiribati was declared an independent state in 1979, prior to 1979 Kiribati was administered by United Kingdom. Prior to independence Kiribati’s main source of income was phosphate.

Kiribati is one of the worlds poorest countries and relies heavily on international aid.

Kiribati has been a member of the United Nations since 1999. The Island nation is also a member of The Commonwealth of Nations and the Pacific Islands forum.

Kiribati has a port located in Tarawa, it is suitable for commercial container vessels.

SHIPPING TO KIRIBATI

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SHIPPING TIMES FROM AUSTRALIA TO KIRIBATI  

• Sydney to Tarawa: 8-12 Days
• Melbourne to Tarawa: 14-20 Days
• Brisbane to Tarawa: 12-23 Days
• Fremantle (Perth) to Tarawa: 18-32 Days
• Adelaide to Tarawa: 14-25 Days
• Hobart/Launceston to Tarawa: 16-22 Days
• Townsville to Tarawa: 14-22 Days
• Darwin to Tarawa: 34 Days

KIRIBATI PORTS AUTHORITY

KIRIBATI CUSTOMS AUTHORITY

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SHIPPING TO KIRIBATI

Prohibited And Restricted Items:         

Remember, you are moving to one of the cleanest, greenest, Island Countries in the world, Samoa’s people are very much InTouch with the environment and protecting their country from unwanted pests and diseases. Border control is very strict and heavy fines (even imprisonment penalties) apply for non compliance, your goods could even be sent back to the origin port .Certain items are restricted or prohibited and cannot be imported into KIRIBATI

Please be aware the below items are NOT PERMITTED into KIRIBATI:

• objectionable material contained on items like videotapes, films, records, CD-ROMs and in publications
• weapons like flick knives, butterfly knives, swordsticks, knuckle-dusters
• any weapon which is disguised as something else
• equipment for using cannabis or methamphetamine
• anything which you’re planning to use in a crime.

For the commodities below you should check to see if you will NEED A PERMIT:

• ivory in any form, including jewelry, and carvings
• tortoise or sea turtle shell jewelry, and ornaments
• meat or food derived from whales, dolphins, rare crane, and pheasants, or sea turtles
• medicines containing musk, or rhinoceros or tiger derivatives such as ground horn or bone
• carvings or other things made from whalebone or bone from other marine mammals
• cat skins
• trophies of  sea turtles, all big cats, rare reptiles, cranes, pheasants, bears, antelope, and deer
• live species, including pet eagles, hawks, owls and parrots, many cacti, orchids, cycads, and cyclamens
• carnivorous plants.

You may not be able to bring some medicines into KIRIBATI, especially controlled drugs. This includes medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Remember heavy fines and possibility of imprisonment for non compliance

Prescription medication in most cases is acceptable, if you can present a valid doctors prescription .

If you’re returning to KIRIBATI or are immigrant after 21 months or more overseas, you may be entitled to concessions on vehicles and boats, motor cycles that either accompany you or are transported separately.

Bringing Motor Vehicles And Boats Into KIRIBATI:

You may be able to claim  “household items” concession if:

• you’re relocating , or moving back to the motherland  after 21 months or more away, and
• you have been using the items for their intended purpose.

You can also claim concessions on:

• private vehicles, including:
  • motorcycles
  • cars
  • scooters
  • motorhomes
  • camper vans
  • ambulances
  • boats and
  • aircraft.

You can import no more than one vehicle, boat duty-free, if you meet the Concessionary Requirements.

As a condition of the concession you will be required to sign an Undertaking that you will not sell or dispose of the vehicle, boat or plane within two years.

If you sell your vehicle, boat or plane within two years of bringing it into duty-free, you must pay Customs duty  on a pro rata basis.

Ownership Rules:

You will need to qualify for a concession, which means you will need to meet the requirement to have “personally owned” the vehicle for at least 12 months prior to your departure from Australia  u will have to meet a requirement to have personally owned and used the vehicle, boat or plane for at least 1 year before your departure , or surrendering the vehicle for shipping.

The phrase personally owned means  includes vehicles and boats leased by the importer, and vehicles, boats purchased under a hire purchase contract or agreement, provided that in both instances the terms of the lease or the hire purchase agreement/ contract have been meet with in full by the importer prior to their importation.

Vehicles, boats owned and registered by a company cannot be entered under the concession as the requirement to have personally owned the vehicle, boat or plane cannot be met, as a company is a separate entity.

Documentation will be evidence will need to be produced to support your claim of meeting this requirement. These documents may include:

• receipts showing purchase and delivery dates
• registration and insurance papers
• evidence when the vehicle, boat or plane was surrendered for shipping .

“What if I don’t qualify for concessions”

You will have to pay Duty.

MORE ABOUT CONCESSIONS AND EXEMPTIONS

SHIPPING CONTAINER DIMENSIONS

20 ft Standard Dry (8’6″ x 8′ x 20′)

Weight: 4500lbs
Max Gross Weight: 66,139lbs

Interior Dimensions:

Length: 19′ 5″
Width: 7′ 8-⅛”
Height: 7′ 9-⅝”

Door Opening:

Width: 7’ 8-½”
Height: 7’ 5-¾”

40 ft Standard Dry (8’6″ x 8′ x 40′)

Weight: 8500lbs
Max Gross Weight: 66,139lbs

Interior Dimensions:

Length: 39′ ⅜”
Width: 7′ 8-⅛”
Height: 7′ 9-⅝”

Door Opening:

Width: 7’ 8-½”
Height: 7’ 5-¾”

40 ft High Cube (9’6″ x 8′ x 40′)

Weight: 8750 lbs
Max Gross Weight: 68,008lb

Interior Dimensions:

Length: 39′ 4”
Width: 7′ 7”
Height: 8′ 9″

Door Opening:

Width: 7’ 8″‘
Height: 8’ 5”

BREAK BULK
OUT OF GUAGE AND PROJECT SHIPPING KIRIBATI

CargoMaster offers weekly services for break bulk shipping and shipping large items overseas. These types of services vary greatly between shipment , this area of international shipping should be left to only a few true Australian heavy shipping specialists with many years’ experience (like CargoMaster with 35 years transportation experience) Once again, you need to be very careful when choosing a international freight forwarders to handle the shipping of heavy items overseas this is a specialised transportation mode .choosing the wrong freight forwarder could be devastating and cost you heaps of money (there are plenty of stories of freight forwarders failing when it comes to shipping heavy machinery overseas.! The bottom line is Call CargoMaster if you need to ship heavy equipment from Sydney!

Dimensions of 20ft flat rack container

Dimensions of 40ft flat rack container

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