Bikes To Uganda!

Uganda Orphans Fund administrator Duncan Hill and friend arrived today to pick up the rest of the bikes that have been donated then fixed up by Glacier Cyclery mechanics. Duncan has a 40 foot container he plans to ship in January filled with text books, medical supplies and now, bikes!

Documentation

Back home we fax and email documentation back and forth until we have every “t” crossed and “i” dotted, including a dated Bill of Sale for the container, a Certificate of Donation, a final Commercial Invoice to replace the Proforma Invoice, the Ocean Bill of Lading, and a final inventory list.

Ship Leaves Port

The Charolette Maersk departs Tacoma with her valuable cargo—a twenty foot container with a bright new serial number, 140 bikes and several boxes of tools. We can type those bright new numbers into a website and track the progress of those bikes as they make their way half way around the world. They are estimated to arrive in Maputo about November 2nd.

Bikes Loaded

Today the bikes are loaded onto the Charolette Maersk Thank you. Aggie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Numbers

Today the container is picked up from the docks, taken off site, new letters and numbers painted on and returned just under the loading deadline of September 11th thanks in whole to our freight forwarding agent, Aggie, at Airport Brokers.

It's Found

Today it is found, but is unacceptable and must be removed from port for new number’s to be stenciled on it. But can it be done before the 11th?????

It's Missing

Today the container has gone missing.

In Port

They arrive in Tacoma but Port authorities won’t let the driver unload because something’s wrong with the numbers on the container, and they aren’t very nice about it! But the driver manages to unload it anyway, somewhere.

Loading The Container

Container of bikes loaded onto semi.