Your Canadian shipper will have a correspondent in Panama who will be able to answer all your questions with the latest info. If you don't choose to purchase door-to-door service for your container, then you'll have to get a Panamanian customs broker to help you on this end, unless of course you have excellent Spanish. Good luck!

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Sorry, I don't have answers to all your questions about getting your boxes out while the motorcycle is processed. Your international mover will be able to answer your question. It is a major hassle to get a bike or car titled for Panama.

Here is an article about someone who brought in an older motocycle.

https://panamarelocationtours.com/importing-a-motorcycle-in-to-panama

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This pass fall, I brought a car in my container of household goods to the port of Balboa It took 2 days for my entire container with car to clear customs. They did an in-container inspection, Then the container with car was brought to my town. Heidi Kam was my customs agent. She is excellent. hkam@gakam.com. For it's own protection, you will need to secure the motorcycle somehow in your container. Remember that the ships go up and down and rock sideways as they travel the ocean. Your shipper from Canada will tell you what documentation you need to ship

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Shelbi,


I shipped my SUV with my household goods in a container from the states. I'm not familiar with the Canadian regulations but I'm sure the same goes as someone mentioned having the motorcycle safely secured via tie downs as well as having the gas tank drained and the battery disconnected.

For the receiving end in Panama, they require a clean title with no liens or hand writing on the title. The title must be in the name of the owner of the contents of the container and not a third party unless that is prearranged with your shipper. Vehicles in containers are unloaded and processed first so they must be loaded last unless it's a dual door container then it can be loaded first or last. If the container is being delivered to a customs office outside of the Colon or Balboa ports such as the office in David for people moving to Boquete, ensure that your shipper has the container unloaded from the truck with the container doors accessible. I know of one case where they unloaded the container from the truck with it's doors up against a wall at customs which required a crane to move it so that the vehicle could be unloaded - a $500 added expense.

And when you pick up your motorcycle at customs, bring a wrench to secure the battery because they do not have tools! And beware of any potential electrical problems due to the fact that the battery will be disconnected for some time. You can encounter problems with starting since some alarm systems have to be re-programmed.

Yes, they do charge storage fees in the event of any delays. I believe they give you 24 hours notice to pickup your vehicle. In my case, they called on a Friday which under normal circumstances I could've picked it up on Saturday. But they informed me that the following Monday was a Holiday so they'd be closed on Saturday requiring me to pay storage until I picked it up on Tuesday.

Another snag with titling a vehicle in Panama is they require authentication of the vehicle's engine model and serial number if it's not recorded on the title. Most vehicle titles in the states do not record the engine model or serial number. If this is the case with your motorcycle, there will be an added step of having that authenticated at a DIJ office (the police's detective's division - Direccion de Investigacion Judicial) which will add about one week to the titling process.

As for wooden crates, that would certainly be an added safety measure. I've met two people here in Boquete who shipped their Harley's in wooden crates along with their household goods without declaring them. They thought that they could avoid paying import duties but in doing so couldn't register them since the import duty wasn't paid let alone zero proof of how the motorcycles entered the country rendering them useless! They had to return to customs and cry "mea culpa" and pay a fine. I've heard the same thing with ATVs and golf carts.

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Shelbi,


I shipped my SUV with my household goods in a container from the states. I'm not familiar with the Canadian regulations but I'm sure the same goes as someone mentioned having the motorcycle safely secured via tie downs as well as having the gas tank drained and the battery disconnected.

For the receiving end in Panama, they require a clean title with no liens or hand writing on the title. The title must be in the name of the owner of the contents of the container and not a third party unless that is prearranged with your shipper. Vehicles in containers are unloaded and processed first so they must be loaded last unless it's a dual door container then it can be loaded first or last. If the container is being delivered to a customs office outside of the Colon or Balboa ports such as the office in David for people moving to Boquete, ensure that your shipper has the container unloaded from the truck with the container doors accessible. I know of one case where they unloaded the container from the truck with it's doors up against a wall at customs which required a crane to move it so that the vehicle could be unloaded - a $500 added expense.

And when you pick up your motorcycle at customs, bring a wrench to secure the battery because they do not have tools! And beware of any potential electrical problems due to the fact that the battery will be disconnected for some time. You can encounter problems with starting since some alarm systems have to be re-programmed.

Yes, they do charge storage fees in the event of any delays. I believe they give you 24 hours to pickup your vehicle. In the case of my container, they called on a Friday which under normal circumstances I could've picked it up on Saturday. But they informed me that the following Monday was a Holiday so they'd be closed on Saturday requiring me to pay storage until I picked it up on Tuesday.

Another snag with titling a vehicle in Panama is they require authentication of the vehicle's engine model and serial number if it's not recorded on the title. Most vehicle titles in the states do not record the engine model or serial number. If this is the case with your motorcycle, there will be an added step of having that authenticated at a DIJ office (the police's detective's division - Direccion de Investigacion Judicial) which will add about one week to the titling process.

As for wooden crates, that would certainly be an added safety measure. I've met two people here in Boquete who shipped their Harley's in wooden crates along with their household goods without declaring them. They thought that they could avoid paying import duties but in doing so couldn't register them since the import duty wasn't paid let alone zero proof of how the motorcycles entered the country rendering them useless! They had to return to customs and cry "mea culpa" and pay a fine. I've heard the same thing with ATVs and golf carts.

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I to have a motorcycle a Kawasaki Vulcan 900 I may bring to Panama once I buy a Condo. I have found out on GTAMotorcycle.com that Air Canada will ship motorcycles from Toronto so you may want to look into that . If I do bring my bike down I think this would be the way I would like to do it. However they may not service Panama.

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