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RIV isn't going to help here.
I used Courtney Agency (Courtney.ca) to deal with Customs and arrange for the car to be moved from the dock to a decent warehouse on Annacis Island.
They were very helpful, and things were generally easy, but if I was looking to save some money I think I'd find someone else to pickup the container and destuff it.
I've had to call around a few places for inspection. ICBC seems to be going after a lot of these guys and very few are willing to risk sticking their neck out to approve a RHD car even if it's safe. I think they are worried that there is an obscure problem that they'll miss and ICBC will throw the book at them. It's absolute BS, but that's ICBC for you. 7 years ago I had my defender approved with zero hassle, but it's just not that easy anymore.
Keep the reg handy, and something to backup your declared value and you obviously need your BOL. If you ship anything else in the same container you'll need to declare the value of that too.
You will need a binder of insurance to drive it home. Most brokers try to make it seem like if you don't get it inspected and registered by the end of that binder then you're boned. However, you can get a day reg after that for an inspection if you need to.
I would have to think there's a direct route from HK to Vancouver, so it shouldn't be hard to have a container brought over. Maybe RoRo is a little more tricky.
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