Export

Getting the load out of Türkiye.

Most of our customers are importers and wholesalers in the European Union. What follows is what we take care of once an order is agreed.

Mixed loads

You do not have to fill a truck with one product. Pallets of different brands and formats travel together in one load.

One invoice

Goods and transport are settled together, so there is one document to book and one party to chase.

Export documentation

Customs formalities and the paperwork the destination country requires are prepared before the load moves.

Delivery across the EU

We work with carriers and customs warehouses to bring the load to the agreed address inside the European Union.

How a load is built

Does weight fill the trailer, or does volume?

This is where the mixed load stops being a slogan and turns into arithmetic. A trailer has two ceilings, and whichever one your load reaches first is the one setting your cost per case. Water and tea travelling together is not a coincidence.

Euro pallets: Euro palletson a 13.60 metre curtainsider, at 120 x 80 cm
industrial pallets: industrial palletssame trailer, at 120 x 100 cm
tonnes gross: tonnes grossfive axle combination in the European Union
tonnes of goods: tonnes of goodsroughly what is left once the vehicle is deducted

These run out of tonnes

Water, mineral water, juice

Liquid is heavy. These pallets reach 24 tonnes long before they run out of floor, so the trailer closes half loaded. Glass gets there considerably faster than PET.

These run out of floor

Tea, bulgur, confectionery

These are light and fill the floor with tonnes to spare. A trailer of dry goods sent on its own carries about a third of the tonnage you paid for as air.

Putting the two in one load is the closest anyone gets to reaching both ceilings at once. That is the case for a mixed load in a single sentence.

These are the figures for a standard curtainsider. How many cases a given brand and format puts on a pallet is a separate question, and your load's pallet plan is set out on the quotation.

Who does what

Where our job ends and yours begins.

Every quotation names an Incoterms rule, and that rule is the whole answer to who books transport, who pays for it and who carries the risk at each stage. These are the ones that come up most on this lane.

EXW and FCA

You control the transport. We make the goods ready and hand them over with the documents; from that point the carrier is yours and so is the risk. Buyers with their own freight arrangements usually want this.

CPT and CIP

We book and pay the carriage to the named place. Risk still passes to you when the goods reach the first carrier, which is the part most people misread, and under CIP we insure that leg as well.

DAP

We deliver to your address and carry the risk until the truck is there ready to unload. Import clearance, duty and VAT in your country stay with you, and so does the unloading.

If none of these fits, say what you need. What we will not do is leave the rule unnamed: an order without an Incoterms rule is an argument waiting for something to go wrong.

Paperwork

What travels with the load.

Türkiye and the European Union sit inside a customs union covering industrial and processed agricultural goods, while basic agricultural goods fall under a separate preferential arrangement. Which certificate a load needs follows from that, and it is settled before the truck moves rather than at the border.

Which of these applies depends on the product and the destination. We confirm it per order rather than assuming it.

A.TR movement certificate: The customs union document. It is what allows goods in free circulation to enter the EU without the common customs tariff being charged on arrival.
EUR.1 or an invoice declaration: Used where the preference rests on origin rather than on free circulation, which is the route for agricultural and some processed agricultural goods.
Commercial invoice and packing list: The two documents your own customs broker asks for first, itemised per pallet so a load can be checked without being unpacked.
Certificates the product requires: Food lines can need health or analysis certificates depending on the destination. Tell us the country and we will confirm what applies before you order.

What the destination market wants

Clearing customs and reaching a shelf are two different things.

The customs union gets the goods across the border. Selling them to a consumer is a separate body of rules, and those rules belong to whoever first places the product on that market, which is the importer. A pack printed for the Turkish market does not satisfy them on its own. These are the headings worth settling before an order.

Label language and mandatory particulars
The European Union wants food information in a language easily understood in the market where it is sold, alongside the nutrition declaration, allergens emphasised in the ingredients list, and the name and address of the operator inside the Union responsible for the food.
Two routes: over-label, or a separate print run
Either labels go over the pack on arrival, or, where the quantity justifies it, a separate run is printed for that market. Which one suits you depends on the product and the volume, and we settle it before the order.
Deposit return schemes
Several Union markets put a deposit on single use drinks packaging: Pfand in Germany, statiegeld in the Netherlands, and a growing list elsewhere. The obligation sits with whoever first places the packaging on that market. We can build a load with deposit marked packaging or without it, and we agree which before the order.
Send the destination country with the list
All of the above turns on where the load is going. Knowing the country up front means we can tell you what applies at the same time as the price. Finding out afterwards is what leaves a load waiting.

Import formalities remain the buyer's, as our terms of sale set out. The point of this section is not to take that over, it is that you should know what you are walking into before you order.

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