Car Shipping Company from Kuwait to Spain 0552803439 | RoRo & Containers from Shuwaikh Port to Valencia, Delivery to Marbella

Home Safe is a car shipping company from Kuwait to Spain that arranges your car’s journey from your home in Kuwait to your address in Madrid, Marbella or Seville. The car sails from Shuwaikh Port by RoRo or inside a container to Valencia or Algeciras and arrives in 35 to 50 days door to door, while an urgent car flies in 4 to 7 days. A saloon starts from SAR 4,900, which is about KWD 400, a mid-size 4×4 from SAR 5,800, and a large 4×4 or pickup from SAR 6,900. To book: 0552803439.

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1. Who ships a car from Kuwait to Spain?
2. How does Home Safe serve the Kuwait route as a Saudi establishment?
3. Will Spain accept your car? Summer visitor, new resident or importer
4. Shipping cars by sea from Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait to Valencia and Algeciras
5. Transit time for shipping a car from Kuwait to Spain
6. Price of shipping a car from Kuwait to Spain
7. Collecting cars from Kuwait City and the governorates
8. RoRo or container for a car leaving the Gulf?
9. Shipping 4x4s, pickups and motorcycles from Kuwait to Spain
10. Shipping more than one car in a single container
11. Commercial and heavy vehicles, racing cars and sensitive cars
12. Preparing the car before the recovery truck arrives
13. Procedures for a car leaving or being exported from Kuwait
14. Documents for shipping the car and what is not accepted with it
15. Spanish customs and taxes on a car arriving from Kuwait
16. Change-of-residence relief for someone moving from Kuwait
17. Approval of a Gulf car and its registration in Spain
18. Marine insurance and tracking the car until delivery
19. Delivering cars from Kuwait in Madrid, Marbella and Seville
20. Is there a land route from Kuwait to Spain? And what is the Jeddah route?
21. Air freight for cars from Kuwait to Spain
22. Steps for shipping your car from Kuwait to Spain
23. Shipping cars from Spain to Kuwait
24. Home Safe’s tips before shipping your car from Kuwait to Spain
25. How do you choose a car shipping company from Kuwait to Spain?
26. Common mistakes when shipping cars from Kuwait to Spain
27. Why Home Safe for shipping your car from Kuwait to Spain?
28. Related articles and pages
29. Tags
30. Frequently asked questions about car shipping from Kuwait to Spain
31. Which is the best car shipping company from Kuwait to Spain?
32. How much does it cost to ship a car from Kuwait to Spain?
33. How many days does a car take from Kuwait to Valencia or Algeciras?
34. Do I pay customs in Spain if I am only spending the summer there?
35. Do I need export plates if the car is coming back to Kuwait?
36. How do I export my car from Kuwait permanently?
37. Can a Gulf-specification car be registered in Spain?
38. Which suits better from Shuwaikh Port: RoRo or a container?
39. Does a large 4×4 fit into a standard container?
40. How is a motorcycle shipped from Kuwait to Spain?
41. Can the car be shipped by air from Kuwait International Airport?
42. Can I put the summer suitcases inside the car?
43. My car has instalments owed to a bank in Kuwait. Can it be shipped?
44. Do you bring the car back from Spain to Kuwait after the holiday?
45. When should I book for the car to be in Marbella at the start of the holiday?

Route: your home in Kuwait → Shuwaikh Port → the Arabian Gulf and the Arabian Sea → the Red Sea, then the Suez Canal → the western Mediterranean → Valencia or Algeciras → your address in Spain · Transit time: by sea 35–50 days, by air 4–7 days.

Who ships a car from Kuwait to Spain?

Most of the cars that leave on this route are neither sold in Spain nor registered there. They belong to Kuwaiti families who spend the summer on the Andalusian coast and prefer the car they know to a hire car for three months. After them come the cars of Spanish and other European residents whose work in Kuwait has ended, then those of enthusiasts and racing teams, and lastly what companies and embassies send. We serve the individual, the company, the government body and the diplomatic mission on the same ship; what differs is the paperwork:

The owner	What they send	The method that suits	The car’s status in Spain
A family summering in Marbella or Malaga	A family 4×4 or a luxury car	Container to Algeciras, or air	Temporary admission on Kuwaiti plates
A European resident returning home	The car they drove in Kuwait	RoRo, or a container with their effects	Change-of-residence relief if its conditions are met
A motorcycle or classic car enthusiast	A motorcycle or an old car	Private container	Temporary for a trip, or import under its rules
A company, embassy or government body	Official cars or work vehicles	Containers on one booking	Depends on the body’s status and its letters

How does Home Safe serve the Kuwait route as a Saudi establishment?

We say it as it is: Home Safe is an establishment registered in Jeddah, and we have neither a branch nor a yard in Kuwait. Shipments on this route are collected by Kuwaiti shipping and clearing agents we work with, and they are the ones who send the recovery truck to your home, take the car into Shuwaikh Port and lodge its customs declaration. Our team runs the file from the start: it chooses the method and the Spanish port, books the ship, reviews the papers and follows up the broker in Spain. This is what the service includes:

• Collection: a recovery truck from your address in any Kuwaiti governorate, with a condition report and photographs before the car moves.
• Clearance in Kuwait: the customs declaration at the port or airport is lodged by our agent there.
• Clearance in Spain: a customs broker lodges the temporary admission declaration, the import declaration or the relief application.
• Delivery: a carrier from the port to the door of the house, an inspection and then the handover of the key.

This article is about vehicles only. Anyone sending furniture, appliances or parcels to Spain will find what concerns them in the article on international shipping to Spain, and our service for Gulf cars in general is on the car shipping from the Gulf states page.

Will Spain accept your car? Summer visitor, new resident or importer

Spain sets no limit on the age of an imported car as some countries do, so your car is not refused for being old. What changes is what you pay and what is asked of the car, and that follows your own status, not the type of car. There are three statuses, and knowing which applies to you is the first thing we settle with you, because a mistake here costs a third of the car’s price or more.

Point of comparison	Summer visitor	Moving to live there	Importer or seller
Plates	Kuwaiti, as they are	Export plates, then Spanish	Export plates, then Spanish
Duty and tax at the port	Not paid	Relieved under conditions	Paid in full
Registration tax	Not required	Relieved under conditions	According to the car’s emissions
Approval and inspection	Not required	Required before the plates	Required before the plates
Length of stay	Up to six months within twelve months	Permanent	Permanent

Temporary admission is the case for most of our Kuwaiti customers. The rule in force in the European Union is that a non-resident brings in a private car registered outside it and uses it free of duties, as long as it leaves before its period ends and is not sold, hired or lent to a resident there. But a car that arrives shipped is not driven across the border by its owner, so a declaration is lodged for it at the port customs office, and the office may ask for proof of its departure date or a guarantee. We ask the broker what the Valencia or Algeciras office requires before the car sails, not after it arrives. The Kuwaiti insurance policy does not usually cover Spanish roads, so a temporary policy valid for Spain is bought before the day of collection. For anyone planning to drive on to countries that ask for the customs carnet, there is an explanation on the Triptik page.

Shipping cars by sea from Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait to Valencia and Algeciras

Shuwaikh Port is Kuwait’s leading commercial port; it lies west of the capital on Kuwait Bay, and its berths receive container ships and roll-on/roll-off vessels alike. Most cars bound for Europe leave from it. Some lines load at Shuaiba Port in the south of the country, so we set the port according to the line booked, not by habit. The sea route is long: the ship runs the whole length of the Arabian Gulf, passes the Strait of Hormuz, rounds the Arabian Peninsula in the Arabian Sea, then climbs the Red Sea to the Suez Canal and after that crosses the Mediterranean from east to west.

Stage	What happens	Approximate time
Collection from your address in Kuwait	Inspection, photographs and condition report, then a recovery truck to the yard	1 day
Kuwaiti traffic and customs papers	The export transaction or the temporary exit papers, then the declaration	3–6 days
Entry to Shuwaikh Port and waiting for the ship	Handover to the RoRo terminal, or lashing in the container and sealing it	2–5 days
Sailing to Valencia or Algeciras	Direct on some schedules, and with a change of vessel at a hub port on most	About 22–32 days
Clearance at the Spanish port	The temporary admission or import declaration, or the relief application	3–6 days
Delivery to the address	Car carrier, then inspection and handover of the key	1–3 days

Why these two ports? Valencia is on the east coast, one of Spain’s largest ports for containers and cars alike, and the nearest seaport to Madrid. Algeciras is in the far south at the Strait of Gibraltar, a container hub port called at by many lines coming from the Suez Canal, and only about 80 km from Marbella. So anyone living in Andalusia saves hundreds of kilometres on the carrier by using it. On arrival the car is matched twice: its chassis number against the bill of lading before customs, and its condition against the loading report before you sign. The times in the table are approximate and shift as the routes the shipping lines follow shift. The ports we work through are on the ports and gateways page.

Transit time for shipping a car from Kuwait to Spain

Roughly half the time goes in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea before the ship sees the Mediterranean, and from a port on the Gulf there is no way round that. What we can control is the days before and after the sailing: papers ready before entry to the port, a ship with a near date, and a broker waiting for the car in Spain with its file.

Method	Door to door	What governs its date
Private 20ft container	35–45 days	Container sailings from Shuwaikh are closely spaced
RoRo to Valencia	38–50 days	The car-carrier schedule, which has fewer sailings
By road to Jeddah, then by sea	22–32 days	Crossing the land border and the sailing date from Jeddah
Air freight	4–7 days	An aircraft that accepts the car’s height and weight

What lengthens the time?

• A traffic fine or bank lien that surfaces on the day of the visit, so the car misses its ship and waits for the next.
• August in Spain, when offices and brokers work at half strength.
• An incomplete relief file, so the car stays in the port yard and storage is charged on it.

Times for the other routes are on the transit times page.

Price of shipping a car from Kuwait to Spain

The freight on a car carrier is worked out on the space the vehicle occupies, not on its weight or its price. That is why we have divided the price into three sizes. The figures below are in Saudi riyals because that is our establishment’s currency, and beside them we have put the approximate equivalent in Kuwaiti dinars. They include collection from your address in Kuwait and sea freight to the Spanish port. They do not include Spanish taxes or transport inside Spain.

Vehicle or service	Price starts from	Note
Saloon or hatchback	SAR 4,900, about KWD 400	To Valencia or Algeciras
Mid-size 4×4	SAR 5,800, about KWD 475	Crossovers and mid-size family cars
Large 4×4 or pickup	SAR 6,900, about KWD 565	More if the dimensions exceed the usual
Private 20ft container for one car	Set on request	According to the line and the week of shipping
Two cars in a 40ft container	Set on request	The freight is split between the owners
Motorcycle on a base inside a container	Set on request	Alone or with its owner’s car
Air freight for the car	Set on request	By weight, dimensions and fuel type

Prices circulating in the market: we found no one publishing a specific price for this direction itself. What is published for the opposite direction, from Spanish ports to Shuwaikh and Shuaiba, runs between USD 1,875 and USD 3,590 for the sea freight alone. A figure of about USD 1,400 for a saloon and USD 1,450 for a 4×4 circulates for shipping a car inside a container from Kuwait to Spain. For a full container from Gulf ports to north European ports, between USD 2,200 and USD 3,900 is published depending on its size. Most of these figures are quay to quay, with no collection, no clearance and no port charges.

Factor	How it changes the price
Size of the vehicle	Length, width and height are the unit of charge on RoRo
Method	A private container costs more than RoRo, and each car’s share falls if two share it
Spanish port	The sea freight is close, and the difference lies in the carrier’s charge after it
Spanish city	Marbella is 80 km from Algeciras and more than 600 km from Valencia
Season	May to July sees higher demand, and so does the return in September

How do you cut the cost?

• Send the car two months before your travel date and choose sea, as air is several times its freight.
• Agree with a relative or neighbour who summers in the same area on a 40ft container for two cars.
• Ask for the port nearest your Spanish home, then compare the total and not the sea freight alone.

The pricing items are explained on the pricing factors page.

Collecting cars from Kuwait City and the governorates

Kuwait is a small country in area, and the furthest inhabited address in it is no more than an hour and a half from Shuwaikh Port. So collection from any governorate is done in one day, with no difference worth mentioning in its charge.

Governorate	Some of its areas	Collection note
Capital	Kuwait City, Shuwaikh, Shamiya, Rawda, Qadsiya	The nearest to the port, and the car is handed to the yard within the hour
Hawalli	Salmiya, Hawalli, Jabriya, Salwa, Bayan, Mishref	Blocks with basements, so the car is brought out to the street before the truck arrives
Farwaniya	Farwaniya, Khaitan, Ardiya, Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, Al Rai	Close to the airport, and most air freight requests come from it
Mubarak Al-Kabeer	Sabah Al-Salem, Adan, Qurain, Messila	Houses with wide entrances, and loading in front of the door
Ahmadi	Fahaheel, Mangaf, Mahboula, Ahmadi, Sabah Al-Ahmad, Khiran	The nearest to Shuaiba Port if the line is booked from there
Jahra	Jahra, Saad Al-Abdullah, Qasr, Abdali	An appointment arranged a day ahead

RoRo or container for a car leaving the Gulf?

A RoRo ship is a car park that sails: a port worker drives the car in over a stern ramp, parks it on a covered deck and lashes it to the floor. It stays with no cover and no wrapping, because the line wants its chassis number visible, and it is driven a second time on discharge. A container is a steel box the car enters at the agent’s yard in Kuwait; it is strapped down by its wheels, then closed in with a seal that is broken only before Spanish customs.

Point of comparison	RoRo	Private container	Shared container for two cars
Usual port of arrival	Valencia	Valencia or Algeciras	Valencia or Algeciras
Belongings with the car	Not accepted	Accepted with a declared list	Accepted with a list for each owner
A car that does not run	Not accepted	Winched inside	Accepted if it goes in first
Freight	Lowest	Highest	In between

Our advice on this route: RoRo for an everyday car that runs and lands at Valencia, and a container for everything else. The two methods are detailed on the RoRo car shipping and container car shipping pages.

Shipping 4x4s, pickups and motorcycles from Kuwait to Spain

These three are what is most often sent from Kuwait to Andalusia in summer, and each has a different measurement problem. The 4×4’s problem is height, the pickup’s is length, and the motorcycle’s is that it does not stand up by itself. That is why we ask for the actual figures of the vehicle as it is today, with its tyres and its additions, not the figures in the maker’s handbook.

Vehicle	The container that suits it	How it is secured	What we watch for
Mid-size 4×4	Standard 20ft	Straps on all four wheels and timber chocks	Folding the mirrors, as the door width is limited
Large or lifted 4×4	High-cube 20ft, or high-cube 40ft	Straps on all four wheels, and chains for the heaviest	The standard door opening is about two and a quarter metres, and the high-cube about thirty centimetres more
Double-cab pickup	40ft	Straps on all four wheels	Its length may exceed the inside length of a 20ft container, which is under six metres
Motorcycle	Any container, alone or in front of the car	A steel base gripping the front wheel, and straps from four points	Draining most of the fuel and disconnecting the battery

For anyone who will register the vehicle in Spain: an eight-cylinder engine falls into the highest registration tax bands, and customs may classify a pickup as a goods vehicle with a duty unlike that on a passenger car, so we ask the broker how your model is classified before shipping. The duty on a motorcycle under the rules in force is lower than that on a car. None of this touches anyone who enters temporarily and returns.

Shipping more than one car in a single container

A 40ft container takes two mid-size cars one behind the other, and three small cars if one of them is raised on an inclined rack inside a high-cube container. The container’s freight is the same whether it carries one car or two, so each car’s share comes down to something close to the RoRo freight, with the protection of the closed box.

• The gap: a space between the two cars and a timber barrier, so the nose of the second never touches the tail of the first however the ship rolls.
• The papers: one bill of lading for the container, and a separate file for each car with its chassis number and its owner.
• Insurance: each car is insured for its own value, and its condition report is separate.

Container sizes and what they hold are on the container sizes page.

Commercial and heavy vehicles, racing cars and sensitive cars

Some of what we are asked for does not go into a container at all, and some goes in but cannot take what an ordinary car takes. A lorry, a bus or a heavy machine travels on the deck of a roll-on/roll-off ship if it runs, or on an open-sided flat rack if it is wider or taller than a closed container.

• Lorries, buses and plant: they are measured first, then it is decided whether they are rolled onto the ship or lifted onto a flat rack, and a crane lift is arranged at both ports. The details are on the heavy equipment shipping page.
• Racing and test cars: their ground clearance is small, so they are loaded on long, shallow ramps. Their tyres and parts are shipped with them in numbered crates, and they enter Spain on temporary admission for the event and then return.
• Classics and supercars: a container for one car, fabric straps that do not touch the rims, moisture-absorbing bags, and a video sent before the door is closed.
• Electric and hybrid cars: accepted by most lines with conditions on the battery’s state of charge, and we confirm the condition of the line booked before collection.

Preparing the car before the recovery truck arrives

A car that stands closed for five weeks, passes from the heat of the Gulf to the humidity of the Red Sea, and is then opened by a European customs officer: that is what we prepare it for.

• Wash it thoroughly underneath, as desert dust and caked mud are things the inspection at European ports stops at.
• Keep the fuel at a quarter of a tank or less, as that is the condition of shipping lines and airlines.
• Take everything out: transaction papers, the toll tag, perfumes and air fresheners, and what is in the door pockets.
• Photograph it in daylight from all four sides, with the roof, the rims, the cabin and the odometer reading.
• Disable the alarm, hand over one key, and keep the second with you when you travel.

Fuller guidance is in the car shipping guide.

Procedures for a car leaving or being exported from Kuwait

The competent authority is the General Traffic Department of the Ministry of Interior, and each governorate has its section. The practice in force for the export transaction is that the owner or their agent visits the section with the documents, the car passes the technical inspection, an insurance document specific to export is presented, and then the transaction fees are paid and the export plates issued. The fees are a few dinars. A car that will return does not enter this transaction and has different exit papers. These are the steps for both cases:

Step	For a car that will return	For permanent export
Fines	Settled before travel	Settled before the transaction is opened
Finance and lien	Written consent from the lender to the car leaving	A clearance letter and the lien lifted from the registration book
Visit to the traffic department	The licence is not cancelled, and the registration book stays valid throughout the trip	The export application with the Civil ID and the registration book
Insurance	A policy covering Spain bought for the trip	An export insurance document presented to the traffic department
Plates	The Kuwaiti ones stay on the car	The originals are surrendered and export plates issued
Kuwaiti customs	An exit declaration for a vehicle that will return, lodged by the agent	An export declaration at the port or airport

What is available online among these steps changes from time to time, so what is in the table is the practice in force, and we confirm what applies before shipping. Anyone who is outside Kuwait at the time of the transaction needs only an official power of attorney for a relative or for our agent that mentions export or shipping.

Documents for shipping the car and what is not accepted with it

The file is assembled in Kuwait and read in Spain, so every paper that is in Arabic only has a translation attached. We review the scans days before collection and match the chassis number character by character between the registration book and the bill of lading, because a single different character stops clearance.

Document	Who issues it	Where it is required
Vehicle registration book	Kuwaiti traffic department	Customs in both countries
Export certificate, for permanent export	General Traffic Department	Shuwaikh Port, then Spanish customs
Civil ID and passport	The owner	Every stage
Purchase invoice or a valuation	The seller or an appraiser	Spanish customs and the insurer
Sea bill of lading or air waybill	The shipping line or the airline	Collecting the car on arrival
Foreigner’s identity number and proof of previous residence	The person moving residence	The relief application and registration

And these are cases in which the car is turned back, or dealt with before it is loaded:

Case	What happens
Fines or a lien not lifted	It does not leave Kuwait until settled
Belongings in a RoRo car	They are emptied, or the car is switched to a container
Meat, dairy and home-made food	Taken out, as their entry to the European Union in personal baggage is prohibited
Hunting weapons, ammunition and stun devices	Prohibited with the car, and they have their own licences and route
A radar detector or jammer	Removed, as its use is banned in Spain

The general lists are on the shipping documents and prohibited items pages.

Spanish customs and taxes on a car arriving from Kuwait

This section is for those whose car will stay in Spain and who are not covered by the relief. Spain applies the European Union tariff and then its own taxes, so the importer pays three times: customs duty and value added tax at the port, then a registration tax before the plates. The value on which the first two are worked out is the price of the car with its freight and insurance.

Item	Rule in force	Worked out on
Customs duty on a passenger car	10%	The value with freight and insurance
Value added tax	21%	The value and the duty together
Registration tax, emissions up to 120 g/km	Exempt	The car’s value in the official tables
Registration tax, 200 g/km and above	14.75%	The car’s value in the official tables
Municipal vehicle tax	Annual, and differs between municipalities	The engine’s fiscal horsepower

A worked example: a car worth SAR 100,000, which is about KWD 8,200, with freight of SAR 4,900. The duty base is SAR 104,900, so the customs duty is SAR 10,490. Value added tax on SAR 115,390 comes to SAR 24,232. So the total paid at the port is SAR 34,722, before the registration tax and the costs of approval.

Between the two ends of the registration tax lie two middle bands at 4.75% and 9.75%, and certain regions amend them. The Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla sit outside the mainland tax system. The figures here are the rule in force, and we check the current ones against your car before booking. The release steps are on the customs clearance page.

Change-of-residence relief for someone moving from Kuwait

The Spanish or other European employee who has finished their years of work in Kuwait, and the Kuwaiti who has obtained residence in Spain and moved there, are each entitled to bring in their car as part of their personal effects with no duty, no value added tax and no registration tax. This is the most valuable item in the file, and its conditions in force are precise:

• Previous residence: at least twelve continuous months outside the European Union, proved by the Kuwaiti residence permit or Civil ID and a certificate from the Spanish consulate.
• Ownership and use: the date on the Kuwaiti registration book has to show it registered to you for six months or longer ahead of the day you moved.
• Arrival window: the car must enter within twelve months of the date your residence in Spain began.
• Restriction on sale: it is not sold, hired out or lent for a full year after it enters.

Approval of a Gulf car and its registration in Spain

Cars sold in Kuwait are built to Gulf specifications: stronger cooling and dust filters, but they have not been tested to European standards and do not carry the certificate of conformity that the Spanish traffic authority asks for. So before Spanish plates there is an administrative path that takes from weeks to three months.

Stage	What happens	What concerns a car arriving from Kuwait
Individual approval	An approved laboratory examines the car and issues a report	Needed by most Gulf-specification cars
Modifications	What the laboratory asks for to meet the European standard	Headlight beam pattern, a rear fog lamp, and removing the tint from the front glass
Import inspection	A special technical inspection at an approved station	Its appointment is booked before the car arrives where possible
Final registration	The traffic authority, after the taxes or the relief	It needs the foreigner’s identity number and a registered address

Marine insurance and tracking the car until delivery

What the shipping line commits to in case of damage is a limited sum stated on the back of the bill of lading, and it comes nowhere near the price of a modern car. And the car’s policy in Kuwait stops covering it at the country’s borders. So what protects the car’s value on a journey of this length is transit insurance, written from the door of the house in Kuwait to the door of the house in Spain.

• What it covers: damage in loading and unloading, fire, theft, the sinking or grounding of the ship, and the car’s share of general average if the master declares it.
• The insured value: the market price of the car with its freight, and for a rare car an appraiser’s valuation attached to the policy.
• The claim: it rests on the condition report and the photographs taken in Kuwait, and on a remark written on the delivery receipt before signing.

As for follow-up, each shipment has one member of staff who knows its file, and a message reaches you on entry to the port, sailing, the Suez Canal transit, arrival and release. If the ship’s date changes we tell you the same day. You follow it yourself with the bill of lading or container number on the shipping line’s website. The types of cover are on the cargo insurance page, and the way to follow up on the shipment tracking page.

Delivering cars from Kuwait in Madrid, Marbella and Seville

Madrid is a capital with no sea in the heart of the plateau, Marbella a coastal town in the far south, and Seville an inland city on a river. Three destinations that no single carrier run brings together, which is why the port is chosen according to the city. After release the car is loaded onto an enclosed or open carrier and reaches the address in one to three days.

City	The port that suits	Approximate road leg	Delivery note
Madrid	Valencia	About 360 km	Its centre is a low-emission zone, so a permitted delivery point is agreed
Marbella and Puerto Banús	Algeciras	About 80 km	Gated developments with ramps, so the car is set down at the entrance
Seville	Algeciras	About 190 km	The carrier does not enter the lanes of the old quarter
Barcelona	Valencia, or the port of Barcelona if a sailing exists	About 350 km from Valencia	Prior registration of the foreign car for the emissions zone
Valencia	Valencia	Within the city	The car can be collected from the port yard after release
Malaga	Algeciras	About 135 km	Its airport receives air-freighted cars in transit

The key is handed over after the inspection, which is your right, not a courtesy. Check the rims, both bumpers and the roof, start the engine, and compare the odometer with the figure noted in Kuwait. If you find anything, write it on the driver’s paper before you sign. A car entering temporarily is delivered with a copy of its customs declaration, so keep it in the car all summer. The delivery-to-address service is on the door to door page.

Is there a land route from Kuwait to Spain? And what is the Jeddah route?

We do not offer a complete land route. The theoretical path crosses Iraq, or Saudi Arabia and Jordan, then Turkey, the Balkans and the whole of Europe to its west; it is thousands of kilometres with border posts whose conditions change, and car carriers do not run it regularly. Road, for us, is two short legs only: from your home to the port, and from the Spanish port to your home.

But there is a short cut we offer to anyone pressed for time: the car is loaded onto a carrier from Kuwait through the Nuwaiseeb crossing to Jeddah Islamic Port on the Red Sea, and from there it sails to Spain without rounding the Arabian Peninsula. That saves about two weeks of sailing and adds a land border crossing and a long carrier charge, so we work out both routes for you. We confirm what the crossing requires before adopting it. The comparison between shipping methods is on the shipping methods comparison page.

Air freight for cars from Kuwait to Spain

Anyone who decided to travel late, or does not want a month at sea for their car, sends it by aircraft. It is handed over in the cargo area of Kuwait International Airport, where it is weighed, measured and secured on a metal pallet with straps over the tyres. It is then loaded onto a freighter, or into the hold of a wide-body passenger aircraft if its height allows. It lands at Madrid airport, the largest cargo airport in Spain, or at Malaga airport near Marbella, direct or through an intermediate airport depending on the flight that accepts it. From collection to delivery takes 4 to 7 days.

• Who it suits: a luxury or sports car, a car for an event with a fixed date, and anyone who wants their car in the first week of the holiday.
• Dangerous goods: every vehicle with fuel and a battery is classed as such in aviation, so a declaration signed by a certified specialist is prepared for it.
• Fuel and battery: the rule in force is that fuel does not exceed a quarter of a tank and the battery terminals are covered, and electric cars have conditions set by the carrier.
• Price: set on request by weight and dimensions; it is several times the sea freight, and falls if the return is booked with it.

The car does not move from your home before its place on the aircraft is confirmed. Our air services for goods other than cars are on the air freight page.

Steps for shipping your car from Kuwait to Spain

Eight steps, three of them yours and the rest ours. The first matters most, because everything after it is built on what you send in it.

1. You send to 0552803439 the type of car, its year and its dimensions if it is modified, your governorate in Kuwait, your city in Spain and the length of your stay.
2. We settle the car’s status with you: temporary admission, a mover’s relief, or import with its duties.
3. You receive the price itemised by method, port and transit time, with an estimate of what is paid in Spain, if anything.
4. You settle the fines and bring the bank’s paper, and the traffic department transaction is completed if the car is being exported.
5. Our agent collects the car from your home, writes its condition report and photographs it.
6. It enters Shuwaikh Port or the airport, its Kuwaiti declaration is lodged, and it is loaded.
7. The ship sails and you receive the tracking number and a copy of the bill of lading; then our agent clears it at the Spanish port.
8. The carrier reaches your address, and you inspect, sign and take the key.

Shipping cars from Spain to Kuwait

The route works in both directions, and most return requests come at the end of summer. A Kuwaiti car that entered Spain temporarily is loaded at Valencia or Algeciras for Shuwaikh, its Spanish declaration is closed on exit, and it goes back onto its record with its plates and registration book. A car bought in Spain, on the other hand, has its plates cancelled there and enters Kuwait as an import. The rule in force in Kuwait is a customs duty of 5% of the car’s value with its freight, a limit on the age of a used car that is quoted as five years with an exception for classics, and a technical inspection before licensing. Left-hand drive is a condition. Ask us before you pay for a car there, and we will confirm what applies at the time. The destination page is shipping to Kuwait.

Home Safe’s tips before shipping your car from Kuwait to Spain

This is the gist of what we tell a Kuwaiti customer in the first call, and most of it is settled while the car is still in the parking at home:

• Work out your return date before your outward date, as the temporary admission period counts from the day the car lands, not from the day you arrive.
• Do not lend the car to a relative living in Europe even for a day, as that forfeits the temporary admission status.
• Choose Algeciras if your home is in Andalusia, and Valencia if it is in Madrid or the east.
• Buy the Spanish road insurance before the day of collection, as the carrier sets the car down and the driving is yours.

The ways of securing a car inside the container are on the packing and lashing page.

How do you choose a car shipping company from Kuwait to Spain?

Every advertisement promises speed, safety and keeping to the date. What separates one company from another is what it says when you ask it about the Spanish end, and about the day the ship is late. These are questions we suggest you put to us and to others:

Ask about	A reassuring answer	A worrying answer
How long the car will stay	It asks you before it quotes a price	It asks for the plates to be surrendered for every car
The Spanish port	It chooses it according to your city	One port for every customer
Who collects in Kuwait	It names the agent and their role	It claims branches with no address
Documentation	A signed condition report and photographs before loading	Collection by phone with no paper

Common mistakes when shipping cars from Kuwait to Spain

Seven mistakes recur on this route, and all of them are caught by one call before booking:

• Booking three weeks before the holiday on a sea route that takes six.
• Exporting a summer car and surrendering its plates, then paying import duties on it on the return to Kuwait.
• Shipping a car to Valencia when the house is in Marbella, so it covers more than six hundred kilometres on the carrier.
• Forgetting the roof rack, so the car does not fit the booked container on loading day.
• Leaving the car in Spain after its period has ended, meaning to come back to it next summer.
• Sending a pickup or a big-engined 4×4 for registration without reckoning the duty and the top emissions band.
• Signing for delivery at the carrier at night without an inspection, then finding the scratch in the morning.

Why Home Safe for shipping your car from Kuwait to Spain?

Because we do not promise you what we do not have, and we put in writing what we commit to. You know from the start who collects your car in Kuwait, which ship carries it, who clears it in Spain and how many days each stage takes.

To book: 0552803439 by call or WhatsApp, from 7 am to 11 pm. Or from the request a quote page.

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Frequently asked questions about car shipping from Kuwait to Spain

Which is the best car shipping company from Kuwait to Spain?

The one that asks you two things before the price: how long the car will stay in Spain, and who takes it in at Shuwaikh Port. Home Safe is a registered Saudi establishment that runs this route through agents in Kuwait who handle collection, the traffic department and the port, and through a customs broker in Valencia or Algeciras, while your file stays with one team that answers on 0552803439.

How much does it cost to ship a car from Kuwait to Spain?

A saloon starts from SAR 4,900, which is about KWD 400, a mid-size 4×4 from SAR 5,800, and a large 4×4 or pickup from SAR 6,900, from your address in Kuwait to the Spanish port. A private container, a motorcycle, transport inside Spain and air freight are priced on request.

How many days does a car take from Kuwait to Valencia or Algeciras?

The sailing itself takes about 22 to 32 days, because the ship leaves the Arabian Gulf and rounds the Arabian Peninsula before it enters the Suez Canal, and the container usually changes vessel at a hub port. With the days for the traffic department, the port and clearance, the time door to door becomes 35 to 50 days.

Do I pay customs in Spain if I am only spending the summer there?

Not under the rules in force. European Union rules allow a person living outside it to bring in a private car registered in their own country on temporary admission, for up to six months within twelve months, with no duty and no tax. The condition is that it keeps its Kuwaiti plates, is not sold, hired out or driven by a resident of the Union, and leaves before the period ends.

Do I need export plates if the car is coming back to Kuwait?

No. Export plates are for a car that leaves the Kuwaiti register for good. A summer car travels with its valid registration book and its original plates, and needs what Kuwaiti customs asks for the exit of a vehicle that will return, plus an authorisation from the owner to the shipping agent.

How do I export my car from Kuwait permanently?

You visit the General Traffic Department in your governorate with your Civil ID, the registration book and an insurance document specific to export, the car passes the technical inspection, and then the transaction fees and the export plates are paid for. Before that, fines are settled and any bank lien is lifted.

Can a Gulf-specification car be registered in Spain?

Yes, but after an individual approval, because it carries no European certificate of conformity. An approved laboratory examines it and may ask for the headlight beam pattern to be changed, a rear fog lamp to be added, the tint to be removed from the front glass and evidence of its emissions. It then goes through a technical inspection specific to imported cars.

Which suits better from Shuwaikh Port: RoRo or a container?

RoRo is for an ordinary running car whose owner wants the lowest freight, and it usually lands at Valencia. A container is for a luxury or high-value car, for a motorcycle, for anyone who wants to land at Algeciras near Marbella and Seville, and for anyone shipping two cars together.

Does a large 4×4 fit into a standard container?

It does if its height with the roof rack is less than the door opening, which is about two and a quarter metres on a standard container. A lifted car or one carrying a roof tent needs a high-cube container, whose door is about thirty centimetres taller. A long pickup is too much for a 20ft container, so it is loaded into a 40ft one.

How is a motorcycle shipped from Kuwait to Spain?

It is stood on a steel base that grips its front wheel and strapped down from four points on its frame, then put into the container alone or beside its owner’s car. Most of its fuel is drained and its battery is disconnected. Its price is set on request according to its size and whether it travels on its own.

Can the car be shipped by air from Kuwait International Airport?

Yes. The car is handed over in the cargo area of Kuwait International Airport and secured on an air cargo pallet, and it reaches Madrid or Malaga airport direct or through an intermediate airport, depending on the flight that accepts its dimensions. It is then moved on an enclosed carrier to Madrid or Marbella. The time is 4 to 7 days, and the price is set on request once the weight, dimensions and fuel type are known.

Can I put the summer suitcases inside the car?

On RoRo nothing is left in the car, and the shipping line refuses it if it finds belongings inside. In a private container, suitcases and effects can be sent beside the car with a detailed list presented to Spanish customs. Food such as meat and dairy does not enter the European Union in personal baggage, so do not put it in the boot even if it is tinned.

My car has instalments owed to a bank in Kuwait. Can it be shipped?

It cannot be exported permanently while the lien stands on its registration book, as the traffic department will not complete the transaction before a clearance letter from the bank or finance company. For a temporary trip the lender usually asks for written consent to the car leaving the country. Ask for that paper first, as it is the slowest step.

Do you bring the car back from Spain to Kuwait after the holiday?

Yes, and it is better to book both directions in one order. The car is collected from your address in Marbella or Madrid and loaded at Valencia or Algeciras for Shuwaikh Port, or it returns by air. Because it left with its plates and registration book, it goes back onto its record as it was.

When should I book for the car to be in Marbella at the start of the holiday?

For sea freight, book eight to nine weeks before your arrival date, since the journey door to door comes close to two months at its longest, and demand for ships from the Gulf to the Mediterranean rises before the summer. For air freight, two to three weeks are enough.