We spent yesterday preparing the truck for shipping. This mostly involved packing things away inside the vehicle out of sight and cleaning. We had been warned by the shipping agents ( Seabridge For Motorhomes) that Canadian customs will be fussy about dirt on the outside of the vehicle. So at Merex we had the outside thoroughly cleaned with steam and pressure washer but the drive since then (through the rain) had covered the vehicle with road dirt. So we both spent a few hours with broom and bucket cleaning said road dirt off.

We had a very luck escape this morning. On the busy motorway to the port we were passed by a semi-trailer truck and as it passed a large lump of frozen snow flew off the roof of the trailer and smashed into the windshield of our truck. There was a tremendous bang and flash of white and when we refocused after the impact we had two very large cracks in the windshield. Thats the bad news. Of course the good news was that the windshield was still intact and we were not sitting there with a face full of broken glass and ice or with the vehicle out of control.

It is ironic. At Merex I asked about the price of a new windshield. Before today our windshield had a few small chips and I thought at some time we might replace it. Now it is a certainty.

Delivery to the port was a total non-event.

We first had to find the office building for PSA where a little bit more paper work was done. The Seabridge directions were a bit vague but got us to within 1 km of the right spot.

From PSA we got an instruction sheet for the next step.

This was a 1 km drive (back down the way we had come) to Borealis RORO. After a short wait at the entry gate we where waved in and directed to a parking place. The guy that waved us in took down some details of the truck (including any damage that was visible). With our travel bags we were driven back to the entrance gate and the guys at the gate called us a taxi.

That was the end of the delivery process.

We only gave the port guys the truck ignition key. The other keys to the camper and outside storage boxes are hidden on the vehicle and Seabridge knows where they are in case customs want to do a more thorough inspection.


We will stay in Antwerp for a couple of days until the vessel departs to ensure we are on hand in case we are needed at the port for some reason. We have a nice AirBnB appartment right in the downtown section of the city.