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ozpont:
Cosmicvette.. looks like we may have missed each other...  I was in China from 24 April for a week.  But incase you did not get much background... on container imports I organise.. insurance is covered by me up to the first US$5000 .. then its US$150 per US$5000 after that.

.. Never had a claim or more to the point never lost anything since being insuraned.. Once lost about A$20,000 worth of goods back in 1990.. nearly crippled me.. the stuff got stolen from a quarentine base in Mascot.. some stuff turned up .. but the majority never did... and of course NO BODY in any position of security ever sees anything....:-(

... With insurnace.. if your shipping company is on the ball.. I would expect they have their own and can do it simply as an add on.. BUT .. having said that.. some need to have the vehicle photographed, valued, verfied etc before accepting the risk.. AND.. BE CAREFULL... because.. the insurance will only cover it to unloading.. NOT INCLUDING unloading.. or quarentine, or any other handling.. that is all separate.. and unless your at the depot when the car is unloaded.. any damage done by the unloaders is extremely unlikely to be owned up too.. as its so easy for the handlers to pass the buck....
   While we have primarily STOPPED importing VEHICLES now publically.. (we just do parts and parts and more parts both in and out of the country) ... we still do some for ourselves etc.. and whenever WE did them.. AGAIN.. WE were the unloaders and may also wittness the complicated loading or at least have photographic proof of quality of loading placement etc.  
   Yell if you need any advice / guidance or whatever.. always happy to help if you want to ring after middays on stuff like this.

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