Removals to South Africa

Shipping to South Africa | Moving House from UK to South Africa

For Removals to South Africa, including the popular cities of Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elisabeth, Easy Shipping Ltd provides full container shipping, groupage and airfreight services at extremely competitive rates. We can provide removal quotes to and from South Africa and the UK and most other international destinations.

We ship to and from South Africa’s nine provinces, which are: Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North-West

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We provide quality removal services to all the South African cities, which include: Bhisho, Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, East London, East Rand, Johannesburg, Kimberley, Kimberley, Mafikeng, Nelspruit, Pietermaritzburg , Polokwane, Port Elizabeth and Rustenburg.

Removals will be tailored to your requirements and can include full packing and unpacking or just the shipping of your belongings. We cater for house moves, commercial moves, specialist items, pets and vehicles.

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There are a number of shipping options available when moving internationally. Depending on how much you wish to transport, we will either recommend you use our dedicated service, which gives you sole use of a 20 or 40ft container, or assign your shipment to groupage, where it is carefully packed with a number of other small loads in a shared container. Airfreight can be arranged for items that will be needed quickly on arrival, such as clothes, documents and personal items.

Here at Easy Shipping, we understand that moving home overseas can be a daunting experience. Our fully trained staff will advise you on every aspect of your move including which removal option is the best choice for you, removals insurance and clearing your belongings through customs. On the day of your move, we will ensure that everything runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible, through careful planning and using friendly, experienced removals staff.

About South Africa

South Africa is a vibrant country full of amazing people and breathtaking scenery. It is known for its quality of life, wildlife, temperate climate and low cost of living and there is much cultural diversity here.

Many people are choosing to immigrate to South Africa to fill skill shortages in IT, engineering and medical positions and at the same time benefit from the lower property prices and living costs.

Although eleven languages are spoken throughout the country, English is widely used, making it easy for English speakers to live and work here.

Easy Shipping Ltd has compiled this information sheet to help you understand what happens when moving to South Africa, and to inform you of procedures once your goods arrive. Please try and take time to read the information and contact us or our agents in South Africa if you require further clarification of any of the points outlined below - we are all available to help you.

This information is provided without obligation and at the individual's risk. We accept no responsibility for any inaccuracy of whatever nature.

Arrival in South Africa
Customs Regulations
Customs Clearance
 

Arrival in South Africa

Our computer system will automatically generate a shipping advice email which will be sent to the email address you supply us with, giving you the name of the vessel your shipment is on, the arrival date into the port, the destination agent and other important details. This notification is usually sent a week after the vessel sails.

Our destination agent will contact you before the vessel arrives regarding clearance formalities and to obtain further information from you regarding the access at your delivery point.

On arrival at the port of entry the container will be collected by our agent, hauled to their depot and unloaded into their Customs bonded store, where the shipments will undergo Customs clearance. Clearance normally takes 6-9 days, but this time frame can vary during the year. Deliveries to the main metropolitan areas usually take place within 5 days. Deliveries to other destinations take a bit longer, but our agents will contact you to make arrangements for a suitable delivery date.

Customs Regulations

It is your own responsibility to ensure that you are aware of how current Customs regulations and your own personal circumstances affect the status of your shipment with regard to whether or not you will be liable to pay any duty or taxes on your shipment or certain items in it. If a formal Customs entry has to be made, a fee may be charged for this. If you have dutiable goods in your shipment, you may be asked by Customs to supply documentary evidence (sales receipts, invoices, insurance papers, etc.) to ascertain your ownership of the goods, period of ownership, and their value.

Please note that we do not accept firearms (including air, gas, and starting pistols), gun replicas, food, alcohol, fireworks, explosives, narcotics, drugs, incitements, pornographic material, walkie-talkie radios, products made from protected species (eg tusks, furs, feathers, skins etc) and paint in both sea and air freight consignments. Please note that all gas bottles for diving tanks, gas stoves and barbeques etc must be empty and free of gas. Ornamental swords must be declared to Customs and will probably attract extra charges. Garden implements, outdoor furniture, golf clubs, tents, camping equipment, barbeques, shoes, bicycles, buggies/prams need to be cleaned thoroughly and be free of dirt, soil, grass, food etc. These items may attract attention from Quarantine and be order for cleaning. All dangerous goods are prohibited by sea and air shipments.

If you are importing a motor vehicle please contact our vehicle shipping department for further information.

Customs Clearance

All shipments entering the South Africa must be cleared through Customs. There are some documents which must be completed for your goods to clear Customs. We would advise you to complete these and give them to us so we can send them to our agent in advance of the shipment arriving, so that there will be no delay in clearing the goods.

To clear personal or household effects we require a packing list or inventory. If your shipment is an owner-packed shipment, we will supply you with a packing list form on which you list the goods in your shipment. If your shipment is a household removal including professional packing, our packers will make an inventory for you at the time of the removal.

We will also need a clearing mandate, form DA304 and form P.1.160. We will supply you all the necessary documents. You will also need to provide a copy of the photo page of your passport and visa page if applicable.

We will then forward it these documents to our agent in South Africa in advance of the vessel arriving at the port. A copy of your entry stamp into South Africa may be required for customs clearance.

All information on this page is given for guidance only, and although we believe it to be correct at the time of writing, we cannot accept any liability for errors, omissions, inaccuracies or misinterpretation. All charges, regulations and procedures are liable to change without notice.

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