Shipping
Container, RoRo and air freight from anywhere we can reach a port.
Our services
We can tailor a service package to suit your needs regardless of the circumstances of your vehicle.
- Fast Track DVLA registration
- First Private IVA & MSVA Testing Lane in the UK
- EU & Non EU Vehicle Experts
- Worldwide Container Shipping Network
What we do
Door to door, or just the part you’re stuck on
That includes relocating from another continent or the necessary vehicle registration paperwork for a UK-based classic car. There’s no situation that we can’t take care of.
All shipping services
Transport
Collection from the seller’s door, open or enclosed, and the run back here.
Customs
Duty, VAT and the declarations that have to be right before DVLA will look at the car.
UK Registrations
From a passed test to plates on the car, usually about ten working days.
Vehicle Modifications
The work that turns a foreign-market car into one that passes here.
Testing
Our own lane, so your car isn’t sitting in somebody else’s queue.
Export
Sending a vehicle the other way, with the paperwork that country needs.
On site
Your car doesn’t leave us to be tested
IVA / MSVA Testing
We have our own private IVA / MSVA testing facility — the only one of its kind in the UK. This significantly reduces waiting times compared to government testing facilities.
MOT Testing
We have our own MOT testing facility which means that your car does not need to leave our site.
The order it happens in
How an import runs
Six stages. You can hand us all of them or pick up at any point, and the order rarely changes.
- CollectionWe pick the car up from wherever it is, by transporter or by road.
- Shipping or transportContainer, RoRo or air freight from outside Europe; a transporter from inside it.
- Customs and taxDeclarations, duty and VAT, and the NOVA entry that has to exist before DVLA will act.
- ModificationsHeadlamps, rear fog lamp, speedometer. Whatever the car needs to meet UK requirements.
- TestingIVA, MSVA or MOT, on our own lane, without the car leaving the site.
- RegistrationThe DVLA application, and plates on the car.
Questions
Before you get in touch
Do I have to use the whole service?
No. Plenty of customers bring us a car that’s already in the country and only need the testing and the registration, and plenty of others hand us a car in another continent and don’t hear from us again until it’s on plates.
Tell us where the car is and what you’ve already done, and we’ll quote for the part you actually need.
What makes the testing different?
We have our own private IVA and MSVA lane and our own MOT bay on the same site. Your car is tested where it already is, rather than being booked into a government facility and transported to it.
That removes both the waiting list and the movement, which on most imports is the part of the process that eats the weeks.
How long does the whole thing take?
It depends almost entirely on where the car’s starting from. A car in mainland Europe can be here inside a week. A container from Japan, Australia or the west coast of America is a matter of weeks at sea before anything else starts.
Once the car’s with us, the UK end is measured in days rather than months: testing, then about ten working days from a passed test to plates. Our shipping times guide gives real figures by route.
Next
Where to go from here
Tell us where the car is and what you have already done. We’ll price the whole job or any part of it.
- Get a quoteTell us where the car is and what you need. We will price the whole job or any part of it.
- Average shipping timesEvery route we ship, with time either side for customs and unloading.
- Certificate of ConformityWhat a CoC is, when you need one, and how we get it for you.
- Import by manufacturerWhat the process looks like for your particular make.