Shipping to North Africa. Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt, with the right documents.
North Africa is the non-European market closest to Italy. We ship to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt with shipped trailers, containers and groupage, preparing customs and origin documents in Brescia.
Answers to the most common questions.
How do you ship to Morocco and Tunisia?
Mainly with trailers loaded on ferries, delivering straight to destination, or in containers and sea groupage.
What is needed to ship by sea to Egypt?
Besides the commercial documents you need the advance shipment registration number, which the Egyptian importer obtains from the national system before loading.
Do you prepare certificates of origin?
Yes, we prepare proof of preferential origin together with the customs declaration, after checking that the product meets the agreement's rules.
What does each North African country require?
Morocco and Tunisia: the truck by ship
To Morocco and Tunisia the trailer is often loaded onto a ferry from Italian ports or those of southern France and Spain, and delivers straight to the customer's plant. It is widely used by those supplying factories and contract processing, because the goods are not transhipped.
Egypt: registration before loading
For sea shipments Egypt requires the shipment data to be registered in advance by the importer on the national system, which issues an identification number to be shown on the documents. Without that number the goods cannot be properly discharged. We ask your customer for it before booking.
Algeria: strict import rules
Algeria applies rigorous procedures: payments and documents pass through the importer's bank, and many products need certificates of conformity and origin. It is worth settling the full list of documents with the customer before producing the goods.
Preferential origin
With Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt the Union has association agreements that reduce or eliminate duties on products of European origin. Proof of origin must be prepared with the export declaration: we take care of it, after checking the rules that apply to the product.
