Failed Quarantine Inpsection

[Mickol]

Has any else who has imported a boat into the country failed a Quarantine Inspection ?

I believe the reasoning was they found some traces of dirt and leaves and so it goes on a flat bed truck to a secure area miles away to get cleaned again and inspected.

The boat was steamed cleaned before it left the USA and was shrink wrapped ! sounds like a bit of a racket to me.


Mickol

[lethal098]

Its not worth the risk, They are very particular on them. When leaving the states they wouldnt care but i am glad our quarantine looks deep into them.

Unfortunately its hard on you waiting for the new rig,

Cheers Lee

[tunaticer]

I had a painting held up in quarantine a few months ago over the sliver of bark on one edge of the quad framing. Seriously, this bit of bark that slipped through the sawmills was about 50mm long and 6mm at its widest, tapering off to nothing in both directions, and nowhere on it was the outside surface of the bark left, all cut off at the sawmills. Cost me a further $32 to have that tiny bit if subsurface bark irradiated in some bloody big microwave or something. Will give them two things though, they are thorough and they do not damage anything. The sapwood and timber were not an issue however. God knows how that little bit of bark would have screwed Australia's bio-security sitting on my office wall at home?? Maybe they thought i might use a custom painting as a pot plant at a plant nursery or something?

[jeffo]

Seams to happen on most boats coming out of the states. I know of 4 other boats from the states that had the same thing happen....funny thing was, they werent clean as a whistle when they were picked up by the owners. In fact I personally cleaned the bilge area on one of these boats that needed to be "cleaned" by customs and I got handful after handfull of rubbish, dirt and oil out of the bottom of the hull. Good to see they are picking up on it all, shame they dont actually seam to be doing what they say they are doing though.

[Muddy Toes]

Hey mate can i ask ed who cleaned it and shipped it?I still had leaves and dirt and water in the bilge of mine when it arrived and had no probs.

[lampuki]

Yes, yes it is.

Welcome to the shipping industry, lol :)

we recieve 1000's of containers......fumagation and cleaning costs are an easy way to make a buck, particularly when they are not done lol....the collusion that is in the shipping industry is wide spread. When determing shipping rates, there are a bunch of tariffs and fees that are to be paid and these vary depending upon shipping route and the going rate at the time.....i swear, when setting prices, there are most probably 10 fat men, smoking cigars in a room somewhere in europe, agreeing on the price they want to achieve.

[Mickol]

Thanks for the feed back guys on this topic and yes Lee I too want a good a good quarantine system here in Australia to keep everything out things that should not be here but I just feel they ( quarantine ) get a little selective sometimes.

Like those Qld farmers who bought 600 tonnes of fertiliser from China only to discover later that the bags contained dirt they were dudded, but did quarantine check this incoming shipment NO ! and this is what I am talking about.

And unfortunately unless you have an MSIC card you cannot go on to the wharf to be present when the inspection takes place.


Regards


Mickol

[Greg P]

Dont start me on this cleaning BS. I had Roadheaders and bolting rigs come into the country for Airportlink, paid a motza one end to clean and get pre-approval, they hit deck in POB and spend another 4 weeks getting cleaned as there was some "dry dirt", when we picked them up they are dirtier than first inspected as they copped all the crap of other machines getting cleaned. What a frakkin rort.

Ohh well - good for the economy I suppose

[charleville]

I still had leaves and dirt and water in the bilge of mine when it arrived



I think that explains where your screen name came from. ;D



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[testlab]

Our boat was prepped, cleaned and inspected under the supervision of an agent we appointed before being shrink wrapped and checked again. It went straight through inspection with no problems. Twice he rejected the work and had it redone so it was worth the extra money (around $2K including some repair work he did at the same time). For a boat our size (no trailer) the cost of having it moved to be cleaned and then moved again was around $3K plus storage ($990 per lift, plus truck, plus cleaning, plus storage, plus GST).

It is possible to attend the unloading and inspection if you have a genuine reason to attend. you do not need an msic if you are escorted and fill out the necessary paperwork at the security office. Even then you only have a limited time to do what you need to do. In my case I had to bring a jump pack so the electric lift on the engine hatch would work. So I rigged this while the aqis guy was going over the rest of the boat and this was while still on the deck of the Pacific Celebes.

Btw, this was in Port Kembla.