Car Shipping from Dubai to Europe
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Europe is considered to be one of the most significant players in the logistics industry, and according to estimates, contributes an impressive €900 billion to the market value. We, as a freight forwarding company, conduct regular shipments with European countries and so, we are able to provide you with excellent services for car shipping from Dubai to Europe.
We at Car Shipping Dubai – CSD, understand that Europe is one of the hottest destinations for travelers and expats alike and we would be delighted to offer our services for you to elevate your experience in Europe by way of bringing your personal car over to you.
Why Car Shipping Dubai – CSD?
We at Car Shipping Dubai – CSD are seasoned veterans in the car shipping business with over a decade of experience in car shipping to Europe and with its related logistics. With our experience, we know the ins and outs of the car shipping process and our expert team will assist you every step of the way in the shipping process of your vehicle from Dubai or any other UAE nation to Europe, all the while guaranteeing the safety and on-time shipping of your prized vehicle. We frequently do car shipping to:
First time doing international car shipping? No problem at all! Our expert team will be there to guide you right from the get go and will continue to be there throughout the shipping process until your prized vehicle is safely in its destination.
To maintain our standards, reputation and uphold customer satisfaction as a premier car shipping company, the initiatives given below are something that we follow.
Pre-move Survey
To ensure the quantity and the mode of car shipping, in order to provide an exact quote, an expert from our team will contact the customer to explain the process of car shipping to Europe and examine the volume of the car with the customer’s presence.
Quality Quotation
Car Shipping Dubai – CSD ensures that our quote meets both the quality of service expected and fulfills the needs of the customer.
Shipping
This process includes the scheduling of the pickup of the car, packing, stuffing, Bill of lading, Customs clearances and the needed documentation work of car shipping to Europe etc.
Destination process
Before an ample period of time, customers will be notified about the arrival of the car in Europe and the exact destination along with custom clearance procedure and delivery schedule by our shipping agent.
Methods of Car Shipping
Car Shipping Dubai – CSD , being one of the best car shipping companies in the world, offers several methods of handling car shipping for you, each car shipping method with its own benefits and advantages. All 3 methods are applicable for car shipping from Dubai or any other UAE nation to Europe.
Car shipping by Air Freight
Car shipping by Air Freight is the quickest method of car shipping in our arsenal, so it is advisable to utilize this method for urgent car shipping needs with a tight deadline. However, it does tend to be comparatively more expensive than the other modes of car shipping. Some of the major airports that we collaborate with for this method of car shipping in the UAE are Dubai International airport, Abu Dhabi International airport and Sharjah International airport among others and we are able to deliver your vehicle to any of the major airports in Europe. We have authorised agents from all the major airports in Europe to handle your shipment and from the major airlines to the freight services, we have all necessary authorities onboard for car shipping through air freight.
Car shipping in Containers
Car shipping in containers is the most common method of car shipping. We can either collect the vehicle from any UAE address or you can deliver it yourself to a nominated depot and save some money as well. We can either ship it to Europe through dedicated containers or consolidated containers. Dedicated container, albeit more expensive, provides the car with its own container where you can use the rest of the space ideally for a reasonable number of personal effects and items to take to Europe. Consolidated container is the more economical option with your car sharing the shipping journey to Europe in the container with one or two more cars in it. 20 foot and 40 foot containers are available for both shipping options. In both methods of shipping, our loading team will securely strap your vehicle for a safe shipping journey as it leaves off for Europe. 30 days is the rough estimation of time taken for the car to be brought to the destination port in Europe.
Car shipping by Roll On-Roll Off (RoRo)
Ro–Ro ships are large car ferries with no passenger accommodation used commonly for car shipping. This method of car shipping is suitable for shipping anything containing wheels including any type of vehicle from heavy-duty tanks and trucks to motorcycles. This is also the most cost-effective method of car shipping of the lot. However, you would be mistaken to disregard this option as the ‘cheap car shipping option’ as the vehicles are all securely loaded onto the ship and are completely safe in the shipping journey to Europe, even from the elements. However, It is advisable to remove all personal belongings and effects from the vehicle apart from the key prior to shipping to Europe to avoid unwanted claims of lost possessions. Ro-Ro transport also takes around 30 days to be brought to the destination port in Europe.
For landlocked countries, we will use either railroad or road carriers to transport the vehicle from the port of entry to the final destination in the landlocked country. The carriers are fitted with special safety features to ensure that the vehicles are well secured to minimize unnecessary movements that might lead to damages. In most cases, we utilise sea ports in countries such Germany, Belgium and The netherlands as the port of entry to Europe. This is the procedure for both car shipping in containers and car shipping by Ro-Ro transport.
We can arrange for the vehicle to be collected at any port of the main cities in Europe. This should be specified before the car shipping process initiates in Dubai. Given below are some of the air ports and sea ports in each European country that we frequently conduct car shipping with,
Europe
| Country | City | Airport | Seaport |
|---|---|---|---|
| Car shipping to the United Kingdom | London Manchester Birmingham Glasgow Liverpool Leeds Edinburgh Bristol Newcastle upon Tyne Cardiff Belfast Nottingham Southampton | London Heathrow (LHR) London Gatwick (LGW) Manchester (MAN) London Stansted (STN) London Luton (LTN) Birmingham (BHX) Edinburgh (EDI) Glasgow (GLA) Bristol (BRS) Liverpool John Lennon (LPL) Belfast International Airport (BFS) Leeds Bradford (LBA) Newcastle International Airport (NCL) Southampton (SOU) Cardiff (CWL) | Felixstowe Southampton London Liverpool Immingham Grimsby Bristol Hull Belfast Glasgow Cardiff Portsmouth |
| Car shipping to France | Paris Marseille Lyon Toulouse Nice Nantes Strasbourg Montpellier Bordeaux Lille Rennes Reims St. Tropez | Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Paris Orly (ORY) Nice Côte d’Azur (NCE) Lyon-Saint Exupéry (LYS) Marseille Provence (MRS) Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS) Bordeaux-Mérignac (BOD) Nantes Atlantique (NTE) Strasbourg (SXB) Lille Airport (LIL) Montpellier–Méditerranée (MPL) Rennes–Saint-Jacques (RNS) | Marseille-Fos Le Havre Dunkirk Bordeaux Nantes-Saint-Nazaire Calais Rouen Brest Nice Bayonne Cherbour |
| Car shipping to Germany | Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Düsseldorf Dortmund Bremen Hanover Nuremberg Duisburg | Frankfurt (FRA) Munich (MUC) Berlin Brandenburg (BER) Düsseldorf (DUS) Hamburg (HAM) Cologne Bonn (CGN) Stuttgart (STR) Hannover (HAJ) Nuremberg (NUE) Dortmund (DTM) Bremen (BRE) | Hamburg Bremen Bremerhaven Wilhelmshaven Port of Kiel Duisburg Cologne Frankfurt Berlin |
| Car shipping to Italy | Rome Milan Naples Turin Palermo Genoa Florence Bologna Venice Verona Bari Portofino | Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino (FCO) – Rome Milan Malpensa (MXP) Milan Linate (LIN) Naples International Airport (NAP) Venice Marco Polo (VCE) Bologna Guglielmo Marconi (BLQ) Florence (FLR) Palermo (PMO) Turin Airport (TRN) Verona Villafranca (VRN) Genoa Cristoforo Colombo (GOA) | Genoa Naples Gioia Tauro Taranto Livorno Palermo Venice Port of La Spezia Trieste |
| Car shipping to Spain | Madrid Barcelona Valencia Seville Zaragoza Málaga Palma de Mallorca Canary Islands Bilbao Gijón Ibiza | Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD) Barcelona–El Prat (BCN) Palma de Mallorca (PMI) Málaga Costa del Sol (AGP) Alicante–Elche (ALC) Tenerife South (TFS) Valencia (VLC) Seville (SVQ) Bilbao (BIO) Ibiza (IBZ) Tenerife North (TFN) | Algeciras Valencia Barcelona Bilbao Tarragona Port of Las Palmas (Canary Islands) Palma de Mallorca Cartagena Port of Gijón |
| Car shipping to The Netherlands | Amsterdam Rotterdam The Hague (Den Haag) Utrecht Eindhoven Groningen | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) Rotterdam The Hague (RTM) Eindhoven (EIN) Groningen Airport Eelde (GRQ) | Rotterdam Amsterdam Eindhoven Groningen Utrecht Zwolle |
| Car shipping to Greece | Athens Thessaloniki Patras Heraklion Chania Rhodes Mykonos | Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” (ATH) Thessaloniki Airport “Makedonia” (SKG) Heraklion International Airport “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) Rhodes International Airport “Diagoras” (RHO) | Piraeus (Athens) Thessaloniki Patras Heraklion (Crete) |
| Car shipping to Portugal | Lisbon Porto Vila Nova de Gaia Amadora Braga Funchal (Madeira) Faro | Lisbon Portela (LIS) Porto Francisco Sá Carneiro (OPO) Faro (FAO) Funchal (FNC) – Madeira Ponta Delgada João Paulo II (PDL) – Azores Lajes Field (TER) – Terceira, Azores Porto Santo (PXO) – Madeira Madeira (FNC) – Madeira | Lisbon Leixões (Porto) Setúbal Sines Aveiro Funchal (Madeira) |
| Car shipping to Belgium | Brussels Antwerp Ghent Liège Bruges Ostend | Brussels (BRU) Brussels South Charleroi (CRL) Antwerp International Airport (ANR) Liège (LGG) Ostend–Bruges International Airport (OST) | Antwerp Zeebrugge Ghent Ostend Brussels |
| Car shipping to Sweden | Stockholm Gothenburg (Göteborg) Malmö Uppsala Helsingborg | Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) Stockholm Bromma (BMA) Gothenburg Landvetter (GOT) Malmö Airport (MMX) Stockholm Skavsta (NYO) | Gothenburg Stockholm Helsingborg Port of Malmö |
| Car shipping to Poland | Warsaw (Warszawa) Kraków Łódź Poznań Gdańsk Szczecin Katowice Gdynia | Warsaw Chopin (WAW) Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK) Katowice International Airport (KTW) Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa (GDN) Wrocław–Copernicus (WRO) Poznań–Ławica Henryk Wieniawski Airport (POZ) | Gdańsk Gdynia Szczecin Świnoujście Port of Police |
| Car shipping to Denmark | Copenhagen (København) Aarhus Odense Aalborg Esbjerg | Copenhagen (CPH) Billund (BLL) Aalborg (AAL) Aarhus (AAR) Bornholm (RNN) | Copenhagen Aarhus Odense Esbjerg Aalborg |
| Car shipping to Norway | Oslo Bergen Stavanger Trondheim Kristiansand | Oslo Airport, Gardermoen (OSL) Bergen, Flesland (BGO) Stavanger, Sola (SVG) Trondheim, Værnes (TRD) Molde, Årø (MOL) | Port of Oslo Bergen Stavanger Kristiansand Trondheim |
Car shipping to Ireland | Dublin Cork Limerick Galway Waterford Drogheda Dundalk Swords | Dublin (DUB) Cork (ORK) Shannon (SNN) Ireland West Airport Knock (NOC) Kerry (KIR) Donegal (CFN) Waterford (WAT) Belfast International Airport (BFS) | Port of Dublin Cork Waterford Limerick Galway Drogheda Dundalk |
Car shipping to Finland | Helsinki Espoo Tampere Turku Pori Kotka | Helsinki-Vantaa (HEL) Oulu (OUL) Turku (TKU) Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP) Rovaniemi (RVN) | Helsinki Turku Kotka Hamina |
| Car shipping to Switzerland | Zurich Geneva Basel Bern Lausanne Winterthur Lucerne (Luzern) St. Gallen Lugano Biel/Bienne Thun Köniz La Chaux-de-Fonds Schaffhausen Fribourg Gstaad | Zurich (ZRH) Geneva (GVA) Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (BSL/MLH/EAP) Bern (BRN) Lugano (LUG) | Landlocked |
| Car shipping to Austria | Vienna (Wien) Graz Linz Salzburg Innsbruck Neustadt | Vienna International Airport (VIE) Salzburg (SZG) Innsbruck (INN) Graz GRZ) Linz (LNZ) | Landlocked |
| Car shipping to the Czech Republic | Prague (Praha) Brno Ostrava Plzeň | Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) Brno-Tuřany BRQ) Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR) Karlovy Vary (KLV) Pardubice (PED) | Landlocked |
| Car shipping to Romania | Bucharest (București) Cluj-Napoca Timișoara Iași Constanța | Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP) – Bucharest Avram Iancu Cluj International Airport (CLJ) – Cluj-Napoca Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport (TSR) – Timișoara | Constanța Midia Mangalia |
| Car shipping to Hungary | Budapest Debrecen Szeged Pécs Győr | Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) Debrecen International Airport (DEB) Hévíz-Balaton (SOB) Győr-Pér International Airport (QGY) | Landlocked |
| Car shipping to Turkey | Istanbul Ankara Izmir Bursa Adana Gaziantep Antalya | Istanbul (IST) Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW) – Istanbul Ankara Esenboğa (ESB) Izmir Adnan Menderes (ADB) Antalya (AYT) Trabzon (TZX) | Port of Istanbul Izmir Mersin Ambarlı (Istanbul) Gemlik (Bursa) Trabzon Antalya |
Car shipping to Croatia | Zagreb Split Rijeka Dubrovnik | Zagreb (ZAG) Split (SPU) Dubrovnik (DBV) | Rijeka Split Dubrovnik |
Car shipping to Slovakia | Bratislava Košice | Bratislava (BTS) | Landlocked |
Cost of Car Shipping to Europe
The exact cost of car shipping to Europe depends on many factors, such as the destination country, type of the vehicle, your location, preferred shipping port, method of car shipping. There are also custom clearances, taxes and duties to be paid, different in each nation. However, you can quickly obtain an exact cost for car shipping to the specific destination in Europe using our free quote.
Documents required for Car Shipping to Europe
The following documents are required for your vehicle to be shipped to Europe. Additional documents are required depending on the destination country and the origin of the car in question. Our expert team at Car Shipping Dubai – CSD will be more than happy to cooperate with you in this matter.
Taxes and Clearances
Duties and VAT charges apply when shipping your vehicle. The percentage of taxes differs in each country. In most cases, duties will be below 10% and VAT charge will be between 15% and 25%. As always, our expert team will always be there to cooperate with you and get you and your car through this process with minimal hassle.
In most European countries, there is a condition that if you are moving to the specific country in UK, having lived in Dubai or any of the UAE nations for over 12 months and have owned the vehicle in question for more than 6 months, you are then eligible to ship the vehicle to Europe duty – free. European made vehicles also tend to accumulate less percentages of VAT charges and duties levied in most countries.
Car Preparation
For the car to be given approval to be imported to Europe, there are several quality checks that are conducted on the vehicle inorder to meet the required standards. Therefore, Its best to prepare the vehicle for this process. Special attention should be paid to,
Additional Services
We also provide 100% safe storage facilities in the UAE at a one-of-a-kind climate-controlled car storage facility. This marvelous facility, situated in Dubai provides a safe haven for all ranges of vehicles against the rough conditions in Dubai such as the heat, salinity, and the occasional sandstorms. We also provide regular maintenance checks and all types of performance tests, if requested. These storage facilities are a particular favorite with owners of high-end and classic vehicles that require the utmost care and precise handling.