Please note that the United States does not have a motor vehicle inspection body for pre exportation verification of conformity (PVoC).

That means that your engine will be inspected on arrival by Kenya Bureau of standards and issue a local certificate of conformity at a fee of 15% of CIF.

The same rule applies to motorbikes, off-road vehicles like ATVs. Please contact us before but using a motor vehicle engine, motor vehicle parts, a boat, a motorcycle, golf carts, or off-road vehicles. Please note we are not handling construction equipment until further equipment.

All items being shipped outside the United States must be accurately declared in terms of quantities quality and cost.

It is illegal to add declare commodities being shipped outside the United States or being imported to Kenya.

We do not accept misrepresented shipment or a shipment that we feel has been added declared over not declared accurately.

To process CoC, load a container with all the required paperwork – including public health certificate, we charge $5,000 excluding haulage and vessel charges to Kenya. You’ll handle the clearing process in Kenya

If you have collected goods from different people and you are looking for someone to load and process export paperwork, we do not handle this process. we apologize

Kentex Cargo has been built by small businesses at the micro-level. Some of our customers started shipping a few lipsticks and today they run multi-million shillings a month empires, some with multiple branches.

We ship small businesses consolidated products to help small businesses start, grow, and thrive, even at a shoestring budget.

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At the moment, we do not handle tractors or heavy equipment. Our warehouse does not have the facilities and machinery needed to load heavy equipment and tractors into a container. We, however, can facilitate outsourcing for Kenyans in Kenya at a flat rate of $3,000 prepaid.

Contact us for more details.

Please note that we charge $30 per cubic foot for consolidated household goods. This does not include cosmetics, foods supplements, and medical products that are controlled by special government bodies in Kenya.

Our ocean freight delivery time is determined from the day the container leaves our warehouse in the USA to the time when it arrives in our Nairobi warehouse.

We promise 90 days from the day when the container leaves our warehouse In the USA to the time the container arrives in our warehouse in Nairobi Kenya.

It takes about 30 days for us to fill a container and 45 to 52 days of transit time to Nairobi. Pre-exportation verification of conformity procedures takes about 2 weeks, and clearing in Nairobi takes about 1 to 2 weeks.

These are the reasons why we ask our customers to give us 90 days to deliver your ocean cargo from the USA to Kenya.

Commercial goods less than a container load will be quoted on per case basis.

If you want to ship a full container full of commercial merchandise, we can only quote you for the cost of shipping from our warehouse to Nairobi. This does not include the cost of customs duties and taxes In Kenya.

We have special discounts for US returning residents shipping less than a container load.

If you need further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us.

In situations where pre-exportation verification of conformity requires lab testing, as is the case in cosmetics, supplements, and food products, the client is responsible for such testing.

Please note that cosmetics, food products, and medical-related products are regulated and cannot be shipped as household goods or consolidated as general goods.

Medical equipment and food supplements are regulated by the Pharmacy and poisons board of Kenya. Such approval must be provided by the customer before the shipment can be allowed to clear in Kenya.

For our clients in the diaspora, we can only schedule for pick up or accept the shipment in our warehouse if it is 100% paid for.

This is to avoid a common problem with abandonment or pickup delays, especially with used clothes and shoes.