Delivery
Container Delivery Across Europe
Road delivery from German and North European depots to addresses across the EU and neighbouring countries, quoted delivered.
Within Europe, a container is a road movement. Units are drawn from the depot best placed for the destination — which is frequently not the one nearest to us — and trucked to the delivery address.
Choosing the right origin depot is where most of the saving is. A 40ft unit sitting in Rotterdam and destined for Belgium costs less delivered than the same unit in Hamburg, even though Hamburg is our home market. We quote the depot that produces the best delivered price, not the one that is most convenient.
What changes when the delivery crosses a border
- VAT treatment — intra-EU B2B supplies are handled against a valid VAT identification number. Give us the VAT ID at RFQ stage; it affects the quotation, not just the invoice.
- Vehicle rules — permitted lengths, weights and crane operation differ by country and by road class. This is priced into the transport leg.
- Non-EU destinations — Switzerland, the UK, Norway and the Western Balkans involve customs formalities on top of the road movement.
- Final-kilometre access — the binding constraint everywhere, and the thing we ask about on the RFQ.
Countries we quote as a routine road movement
The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Poland, Czechia, Denmark, Luxembourg and northern Italy are all normal road deliveries from northern European supply network. Spain, Portugal, southern Italy, the Baltic states, Romania and Bulgaria are quoted case by case, because at that distance a road move sometimes loses to a short-sea or intermodal leg.
For destinations outside Europe, see worldwide delivery.
Multiple units to one European address
Multi-unit orders to a single European address are usually the best-value way to buy, because the transport leg amortises. Ten 40ft containers to one site in France cost far less per unit than one container to the same site. Tell us the quantity on the RFQ even if it is provisional.