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Automobile Importing Solutions for Dealerships

Your dealership can import cars directly from Japan, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, India, the UAE, and many other countries, shipped to your own port. Our own teams find and inspect each car before your money moves.

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Where does your dealership import cars into?

Import from eight markets, with your first quote in 24 hours.

years trading
countries with our own teams
dealership clients
  • Japan

    Right-hand drive, plus factory left-hand-drive premium models

    Sea transit
    Roughly 3–5 weeks to East Africa, 4–6 to South Asia, 6–8 to Europe and Australasia
    Loading ports
    Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and Hakata
    Import cars from Japan
  • United Kingdom

    Right-hand drive

    Sea transit
    Days to Ireland and Europe, roughly 3–6 weeks further afield
    Loading ports
    Felixstowe and London Gateway
    Import cars from the UK
  • Australia

    Right-hand drive, built to Australian Design Rules

    Sea transit
    Roughly 2–4 weeks across Oceania, 4–7 weeks to Africa and Europe
    Loading ports
    Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle and Adelaide
    Import cars from Australia
  • New Zealand

    Right-hand drive

    Sea transit
    Roughly 2–3 weeks to Australia and the Pacific, 5–8 weeks further afield
    Loading ports
    Auckland, Tauranga and Lyttelton
    Import cars from New Zealand
  • Thailand

    Right-hand drive

    Sea transit
    Roughly 1–3 weeks across Asia, 3–5 weeks to Africa and Oceania
    Loading ports
    Laem Chabang and Bangkok
    Import cars from Thailand
  • India

    Right-hand drive, with left-hand-drive export variants of many models

    Sea transit
    Roughly 2–3 weeks to the Gulf and Sri Lanka, 3–5 weeks to Africa, 5–7 weeks to Europe
    Loading ports
    Mumbai (Nhava Sheva), Chennai, Mundra and Kolkata
    Import cars from India
  • UAE

    Left-hand drive, GCC specification

    Sea transit
    Roughly 1–2 weeks to South Asia and East Africa, 3–5 weeks further afield
    Loading ports
    Jebel Ali, Port Rashid and Khalifa Port
    Import cars from the UAE
  • South Africa

    Right-hand drive

  • Check whether you can import into your country, then name up to five cars.

    Check your market

Sea transit is counted from the port of loading. Allow time before it to find and inspect the right car and prepare the export paperwork. Cars ship CNF to your port.

You can import cars straight from the market they come from.

And ship them to your own country, with the access, the tools and the documentation support to do it — so you stock the cars your buyers ask for, without floor-planning them on spec.

Import direct from source, not from a middleman's stock.

Dealers and auctions across Japan, and dealer and fleet channels in six more countries — exported by our own teams, never subcontracted to an exporter you never speak to.

You'll get to see the car before you make any payment.

The inspection photographs, the Japanese auction sheet translated, and the landed cost itemised — the CNF price to your port, and the duty and taxes you pay on arrival — before you commit.

The export paperwork, prepared.

Deregistration, export certificates and any pre-shipment inspection your market requires, prepared in the source country, with the document pack for your port and clearance support when the car lands.

One consultant owns your request.

Our own people inspect every car in person before it ships, and one named consultant runs your request from the first message to arrival at your port.

Anyone can promise. We show.

You see the inspection before your payment is released.

Inspection report
  • Engine
  • Transmission
  • Underbody
  • Electronics
  • Bodywork
  • Interior
Sent to you before payment

If it does not match the description you approved, it does not ship, and you are not charged.

You get the full document pack for your port.

Document pack
  • Export documentation from the source country
  • Bill of lading
  • Commercial invoice
  • Marine insurance certificate
With clearance support at your port

You know the landed figure before you commit.

Landed quote

Paid to us: your CNF price

  • The car, at source
  • Freight to your port
  • Marine cover for the voyage

Paid in your name at your port

  • Duty and local taxes, for your exact car
Your landed figure
Before you commit

You can track every milestone to your port.

Your import
Shipment route progress
  1. You choose
  2. We find it
  3. Inspected
  4. At sea
  5. At your port
  6. Yours