Shipping Company from Jeddah to Belgium 0552803439 | Furniture, Parcels and Car Shipping by Sea and Air to Brussels

Home Safe is a shipping company from Jeddah to Belgium that moves furniture, cars, goods and parcels in two ways and no third: by sea from Jeddah Islamic Port to Zeebrugge and Antwerp, and by air from King Abdulaziz Airport to Brussels and Liège. The air distance is about 4,300 km, and the sea distance about 4,000 nautical miles, which the vessel covers in 14 to 20 days. A saloon car starts from SAR 2,800, part-load furniture from SAR 5,500, and an air kilogram from SAR 23. To book: 0552803439.

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1. Who ships from Jeddah to Belgium, and what do they ship?
2. The shipping route from Jeddah to Belgium and its duration
3. Sea freight from Jeddah to Belgium via Zeebrugge
4. The cost of shipping from Jeddah to Belgium
5. Jeddah as a starting point: sea and air to Europe, road to the Gulf
6. Shipping furniture and household goods from Jeddah to Belgium
7. Packing and wrapping before shipping from Jeddah to Belgium
8. Transfer-of-residence relief in Belgium
9. A full container or a shared one?
10. Parcels, baggage and the gifts of Hajj and Umrah pilgrims
11. Shipping commercial goods from Jeddah to Belgium
12. Car shipping from Jeddah to Belgium
13. Belgian customs and the documents required
14. What cannot be shipped to Belgium or needs a permit
15. Delivery in Antwerp, Bruges, Leuven and the other cities
16. Services for individuals, companies, government bodies and embassies
17. Air freight from Jeddah to Belgium
18. Collection from Jeddah’s districts and nearby towns
19. Steps to book a shipment from Jeddah to Belgium
20. Following the shipment, tracking and insurance
21. Shipping from Belgium to Jeddah
22. Home Safe’s tips before shipping to Belgium
23. How do you choose a shipping company from Jeddah to Belgium?
24. Common mistakes when shipping from Jeddah to Belgium
25. Why Home Safe for shipping from Jeddah to Belgium?
26. Related articles and pages
27. Tags
28. Frequently asked questions about shipping from Jeddah to Belgium
29. How much does shipping from Jeddah to Belgium cost?
30. How many days does a shipment need from Jeddah until it reaches Belgium?
31. Does the container arrive at Zeebrugge or at Antwerp?
32. Do I pay customs on my household furniture when it enters Belgium?
33. Can my Saudi car be shipped to Belgium and registered there?
34. What are the charges on a car in Belgium?
35. Can my car enter the cities of Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent?
36. What is the cheapest way to ship from Jeddah to Belgium?
37. Do you ship dates and pilgrims’ gifts to Belgium?
38. Will my electrical appliances work in Belgium?
39. Do you deliver outside Brussels?
40. What must not go into baggage cartons bound for Belgium?
41. Do you ship commercial goods and equipment from Jeddah?
42. Is insurance on the shipment compulsory?
43. Do you collect from Belgium to Jeddah?

Sea route: Jeddah → Suez Canal → Mediterranean → Gibraltar → English Channel → Zeebrugge or Antwerp · Time: 25–38 days by sea door to door, and 3–6 days by air.

Who ships from Jeddah to Belgium, and what do they ship?

Jeddah is a city of a port, consulates and universities, and the gateway for Hajj and Umrah pilgrims. That is why the people asking for this route here are more varied than in any other city in the Kingdom. There are Europeans who work in companies and at the university in nearby Thuwal and then go home with their households, students heading for Leuven and Ghent, exporters, and pilgrims from Belgium’s Muslim community who send their purchases rather than pay excess baggage at the airport. This is what suits each of them:

Shipper	What they ship	Best method	Status at Belgian customs
A European returning from work in Jeddah or Thuwal	Household furniture, appliances and a car	A 20 or 40 ft container	Transfer-of-residence relief if the conditions are met
A Saudi moving to work in Brussels	Family baggage and some furniture	Part load by sea and suitcases by air	The same relief after registering at the commune
A student in Leuven or Ghent	Books, winter clothes and residence items	Cartons in a shared container	Relief for study items with proof of admission
A Hajj or Umrah pilgrim from Belgium	Dates, prayer rugs and gifts	An air parcel or sea cartons	Personal gifts within their value limit
A car owner	An ordinary, luxury or classic car	RoRo vessel to Zeebrugge, or a container	Duty and tax, or the mover’s relief
An exporter or trader	Foodstuffs, plastics and factory products	A full container, and samples by aircraft	Duty by tariff heading and 21% tax

The shipping route from Jeddah to Belgium and its duration

A Jeddah shipment starts where the first stage ends for shipments from inland cities: at the quay. From your district to the gate of Jeddah Islamic Port is a run of an hour or less, so no two or three days of road are counted in the time. The vessel then heads north to the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean and Gibraltar, and climbs along the coasts of Portugal and France to the North Sea. These are the stages of a full container, day by day:

Stage	What happens	Usual time
Loading in Jeddah	Dismantling, packing, numbering and loading inside the container	One day in most cases
Export and waiting for the vessel	Export declaration and the container entering the port yard	3–6 days
Sailing	Red Sea, Suez, Mediterranean, Gibraltar, North Sea	14–20 days
Belgian clearance	Import declaration and the relief decision or payment of tax	2–5 working days
Delivery inside Belgium	From the quay to the address, with unloading	1–2 days

The time changes with the method. Someone sharing a container waits for it to fill, someone shipping a car waits for the car carrier’s date, and someone sending a parcel cuts all of that short with an aircraft:

Method	Route	Door-to-door time	Suits
Full container	Jeddah port → Zeebrugge or Antwerp	25–35 days	A whole household and wholesale goods
Part load	A shared container sorted in a Belgian warehouse	30–38 days	Anything under 15 cubic metres
RoRo vessel	Jeddah port → Zeebrugge	24–32 days	A car whose engine runs
Air	King Abdulaziz Airport → Brussels or Liège	3–6 days	Parcels, documents and urgent spare parts

What lengthens the time?

• Vessels rerouted: some lines may take the Cape of Good Hope route instead of Suez in certain periods, adding a week or more to the sailing. We tell you your voyage’s route at booking.
• Registering at the commune: the relief depends on your registered Belgian address, and a container that gets ahead of it waits in the port.
• The Hajj season: traffic at Jeddah’s port and airport is heavy in the weeks of the season, so we book well before it.

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

Sea freight from Jeddah to Belgium via Zeebrugge

Zeebrugge is a port on the North Sea that belongs to the municipality of Bruges and lies about 15 km from its centre. Together with Antwerp it now forms one port under a joint administration. Zeebrugge is known as one of the largest car ports in the world, yet it also has a deep container quay that receives long-haul line vessels. Its position on the open coast spares the ship the hours of sailing up the River Scheldt needed to reach Antwerp.

The container with your furniture or goods leaves Jeddah in one of two sizes: 20 ft or 40 ft, full for you alone or shared with others. The shipping line decides where it berths: some lines call at Zeebrugge directly, some reach it with a change of vessel, and most head for Antwerp about 100 km away. It makes no practical difference to the consignee, since clearance is the same and a truck reaches any Belgian city from either port within hours. We choose for you on three points:

Comparison	Zeebrugge	Antwerp
Location	On the North Sea coast, adjoining Bruges	Inland on the River Scheldt
What dominates	Cars and RoRo vessels, with a container quay	Containers, chemicals and general cargo
When we choose it	For every car, and for a container whose line calls there	When its vessel date is nearer or your address is in the east

The container is sealed at the door of your home in Jeddah with a seal number written on the bill of lading, and it is not opened until it reaches Belgium unless customs asks for an inspection. The service is explained on the sea freight page, and leaving the port is detailed in the article international sea freight from Jeddah.

The cost of shipping from Jeddah to Belgium

The price on this route follows the unit of measure, and the unit of measure follows what you ship. A car is priced by its class and size, furniture by the cubic metre or the container, and a parcel by the kilogram. A Jeddah shipment has no line for a long road haul to the port, which is something a shipper from an inland city pays. These are the figures our services start from:

What you ship	Method	Price starts from
A saloon car	RoRo vessel from Jeddah port to Zeebrugge	SAR 2,800
Furniture and baggage	Part load by sea	SAR 5,500
A full household	Full container	SAR 11,000
Parcels, suitcases and spare parts	Air from King Abdulaziz Airport	SAR 23 per kilogram
A parcel up to 5 kg	Express	SAR 110
Documents up to one kilogram	Express	SAR 83
A 4×4 or luxury car in a container	A sealed 20 ft container	Set on request
A container of commercial goods or equipment	20 or 40 ft, or a special container	Set on request

An air example: an Umrah pilgrim going home to Antwerp left two cartons with us with a chargeable weight of 30 kg, so their charge is 30 × 23, that is from SAR 690. Had there been twelve cartons, their place would have been a shared container, not an aircraft.

Prices quoted in the market for this route are few and uneven. The websites offering shipping to Belgium describe the service and the ports and publish no figures in riyals, so most of what people pass around are general numbers: about SAR 350 for an air parcel of no more than 5 kg, between SAR 500 and 1,500 for an electronic device or a medium shipment by aircraft, from SAR 2,500 for someone sending a little furniture by air, from SAR 7,000 for a 20 ft container, and from SAR 12,000 for a car with clearance and delivery inside Belgium. The spread comes from what each figure includes, so before you compare, ask: is the price to the port or to the front door?

What sets the price	Its effect on a Jeddah shipment
Volume or weight	The cubic metre by sea and the chargeable weight by air. Estimate it with the volume calculator
Closeness to the port	Loading inside Jeddah adds no road charge worth mentioning
Scope of service	To the quay at Zeebrugge or Antwerp, or to the room with assembly
The Belgian house	A narrow staircase or an upper floor calls for an outside ladder lift
Class of car	A 4×4 and a small van cost more than a saloon

How do you bring the cost down?

• Send a running car on a RoRo vessel, and keep the container for a car that deserves the extra protection.
• Register your address at the Belgian commune before the container arrives, since port storage there is charged by the day.
• Do not ship an old fridge and washing machine; the frequency differs and their price there is close to the cost of moving them.
• Hand us the cartons weeks before your travel date, so they go by sea and you are not forced onto an aircraft.

For how every one of these items moves the bill, see the pricing factors page; for what a box costs quay to quay, read container shipping prices from Jeddah.

Jeddah as a starting point: sea and air to Europe, road to the Gulf

Three things come together in Jeddah and in no other Saudi city on the Red Sea: the Kingdom’s largest container port, an international airport with a cargo village, and a road network linking both to Makkah, Madinah and Riyadh. Because the port sits on the shipping lane between Asia and Europe, a Belgium container starts its voyage halfway to Suez, not from the Arabian Gulf, whose vessels sail round the whole peninsula.

That explains why we offer only sea and air to Belgium. The overland route to Europe crosses many countries with transit formalities in each, and we do not rely on it for private shipments. The Gulf states and Jordan are the opposite: the closed truck is the rule and the aircraft is for urgent items.

• Truck hours: the movement of large trucks inside Jeddah is regulated by hours set by the traffic department, so we time loading around them and confirm what is in force before the day.
• Our warehouse: it receives what is gathered from Jeddah’s districts and from Makkah and Taif, and from it the part load moves to the port.

Our other services in the city are in the article international shipping companies in Jeddah, and the truck route to the neighbours is in the article shipping from Saudi Arabia to the Gulf states.

Shipping furniture and household goods from Jeddah to Belgium

The difference between a home in Jeddah and a home in Belgium shows at the door. Jeddah’s flats and villas have wide entrances, while the old town houses of Belgian cities are tall and narrow, with a steep staircase that neither a wardrobe nor a three-seat sofa will climb. The usual answer there is a ladder lift that stands in the street and raises the piece to the window of the floor.

• The survey: a visit in Jeddah or a video call, producing a list of pieces and an approximate volume in cubic metres.
• Sorting: pieces that ship, pieces that will not get into the new house and are sold or given away in Jeddah, and first essentials that go ahead of you by aircraft.
• Dismantling: bedrooms, bookcases and dining tables become numbered panels, and each bag of screws is taped to its panel.
• Loading: the container stands at the house if the street is wide enough; otherwise we move the furniture in a closed truck to the warehouse and load it there.
• In Belgium: the commune is asked to reserve a space for the truck with no-parking signs days ahead, then unloading, assembly and removal of the packing waste.

The towers on Jeddah’s Corniche require the service lift to be booked in advance, so we arrange it before the loading day. The service is detailed on the furniture shipping page.

Packing and wrapping before shipping from Jeddah to Belgium

Jeddah furniture lives in high coastal humidity and heat, and then the door of a metal container closes on it, crossing the Red Sea in summer and arriving in the cold North Sea. The water vapour that went in with the furniture condenses on the container roof as it cools and drips on what is below. So packing here begins with drying what is loaded before anything else, and then keeps it away from the container’s walls and roof.

• Wood: removal blankets and then corrugated board, with no plastic touching a painted or polished surface.
• Glass, marble and mirrors: crates of heat-treated timber bearing the ISPM 15 stamp, since raw timber is refused at Union ports.
• Appliances: the fridge and the portable air conditioner are drained of water, and the washing machine drum is locked with its transit bolts.
• Numbering: every carton has a number and every number a line in a list written in English, which is also accepted there in Dutch or French.

Every material has its own method in the packing guide, and how pieces are tied down to the container floor and walls is shown on the packing and lashing page.

Transfer-of-residence relief in Belgium

Anyone moving their normal place of residence from outside the European Union to Belgium brings in their used personal belongings free of duty and tax. The application goes to the customs office covering your new address, by appointment, and the application for a car goes to a higher authority at the regional customs centre. These are the conditions in current practice as published by the Belgian finance ministry, and we go through those in force with you before loading:

Condition	Detail
Previous residence	At least 12 consecutive months outside the customs territory of the Union
Possession and use	At least 6 months at your former home before departure
Purpose	To be used at your Belgian home for the same purpose
Deadline for entry	Within 12 months of the date you settle in Belgium
Entry before settling	Possible against a financial security, provided you settle within 6 months
After entry	Not to be sold, lent, pledged or hired out for a full year without telling customs
What it does not cover	New items in their box, alcohol and tobacco, and commercial means of transport

The file we prepare with you in Jeddah: the passport page, the signed contents list, proof that you lived in the Kingdom for a year such as a registered tenancy contract or an employer’s letter, and proof of your registration at the commune of your Belgian home. For a car, its registration document and proof that it has been in your name for six months. We start the file on the survey day, because the customs office appointment itself may be days away.

A full container or a shared one?

One number settles the decision: how many cubic metres you have after dismantling. A full container is booked for you alone and sealed in front of you, and you pay for it whether you fill it or not. In a shared one you pay for the space you took, but your belongings pass through a consolidation warehouse in Jeddah and a sorting warehouse in Belgium. Around 15 cubic metres the two prices draw close, so we work out both options side by side for you:

Comparison	Shared	20 ft container	40 ft container
Suitable volume	Up to 15 cubic metres	15–28 cubic metres	30–60 cubic metres
An example from Jeddah	A student’s cartons, or a bedroom and a study	A flat of two or three rooms	A villa, or a flat with a car
Door-to-door time	30–38 days	25–35 days	25–35 days
Price starts from	SAR 5,500	SAR 11,000 for a full household	Set on request

If you have a car and furniture together, a 40 ft container takes both: the car at the front secured with straps, then a timber bulkhead, then the furniture. The internal dimensions of each size are on the container sizes page.

Parcels, baggage and the gifts of Hajj and Umrah pilgrims

Belgium has a large Muslim community from which pilgrims come all year round, and most of them enter and leave the Kingdom through Jeddah airport. What they buy in the markets of Jeddah and Makkah exceeds what the return ticket allows: dates, prayer rugs, abayas, incense and gifts for the family. We collect these purchases from the hotel or from relatives’ homes, pack them and send them to their address in Antwerp, Brussels or Liège, so they travel with a cabin bag.

• An urgent parcel: by aircraft in 3 to 6 days, starting from SAR 110 for anything not over 5 kg.
• Dates: in sealed packs showing the contents, in quantities that read as personal use.
• A gift between individuals: Union rules have a small value limit below which it is exempt, and anything above is taxed. We confirm the limit in force before sending.
• Zamzam water: it is not shipped as cargo; what is allowed is the dedicated pack handed to the traveller at the airport.

The baggage of a student or a relocating employee is handled the same way: what is needed in the first week flies and the rest sails. How to prepare a parcel is on the parcel shipping page.

Shipping commercial goods from Jeddah to Belgium

The three industrial cities in Jeddah and the warehouses of Al-Khumra and the south of the city export foodstuffs, packed dates, plastic and paper products and building materials. Belgium is a convenient way in for them to the whole European market: goods cleared at Antwerp or Zeebrugge with their duties paid then move between Union countries with no new customs. Goods bound for another country leave the port under a transit document and are cleared in that country.

Item	Shipping method	What it needs in Belgium
Dates and dry foods	A dry container on pallets	A label in the language of the country of sale, and the importer’s name and address inside the Union
Foods of animal origin	A refrigerated container	A veterinary certificate and entry through an approved border control post
Plastics and chemicals	A full container	A safety data sheet, and registration of the substance with the importer
Appliances, toys and cosmetics	Sea or air	The European conformity mark and a responsible representative inside the Union

The Belgian importer needs a European customs identification number before the vessel arrives, and the import declaration is lodged electronically through an approved customs agent. Details are on the commercial shipping page.

Car shipping from Jeddah to Belgium

A car whose engine runs travels on RoRo vessels. A port driver takes it up the ship’s ramp to one of its inner decks, where it is lashed by its wheels with straps to rings in the floor, and it stays put until Zeebrugge. No crane and no container, which is why this is the cheapest method. Zeebrugge is its natural stop, a port set up to receive hundreds of thousands of cars every year, and from it the car goes by road to any address in Belgium or its neighbours.

Method	How it works	Suits
RoRo vessel	The car is driven onto the deck and lashed by the wheels, and it ships empty of belongings	An ordinary running car
20 ft container	It is secured with straps and timber chocks and the container is sealed in Jeddah	Luxury and classic cars and any whose engine does not run
40 ft container	A car with the household furniture, or two cars	A family moving with its home and its car

The charge starts from SAR 2,800 for a saloon from Jeddah port, and rises for a 4×4 because the calculation is on volume. Car carriers are fewer than container ships, and may reach Zeebrugge directly or after a stop at a Mediterranean port, so we give you the confirmed sailing date before you hand over the car. We take it from you at the port yard or from your home on a transporter, photograph it from every side and record the odometer reading.

We go through the import conditions before booking, because the sea charge is the smallest line on the bill. Current practice in Belgium:

• Duty and tax: customs takes 10% of what the car is worth with its transport added, and 21% value added tax is then charged on that sum; a mover holding the residence relief pays neither.
• Clearance notice: after payment an electronic notice is issued that reaches the vehicle registration office, and without it no plate is issued.
• Conformity: a Gulf-specification car carries no European certificate of conformity, so it goes through individual approval and a roadworthiness test, and changes to the lighting or a document proving the emissions class may be asked for.
• Registration tax: Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels each have their own method, based on emissions or on power and age.
• Low-emission zones: in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, and they ban older cars according to their class.

An example: a car worth SAR 62,800 with its shipping owes SAR 6,280 in duty and then SAR 14,507 in tax, before registration tax. The two methods are compared on the RoRo car shipping and container car shipping pages, and the general conditions are in the article car shipping from Saudi Arabia.

Belgian customs and the documents required

Belgium applies the European Union’s common customs tariff and adds its national value added tax, whose standard rate is 21%. The tax is calculated on the value of the goods plus the freight, the insurance and the duty. Clearance takes place at the first European port the shipment enters, unless it leaves that port under a transit document for another customs office. This is what we ask for by type:

Type of shipment	Documents	Note
Furniture and baggage of someone moving residence	Passport, signed contents list, proof of both residences, and the bill of lading	The name on the bill of lading matches the passport letter for letter
A student’s baggage	Passport and visa, letter of admission, and the contents list	The residence address with the room number and postcode
A car	The original registration document, export certificate, purchase invoice and proof of identity	The registration conditions are checked before shipping
Commercial goods	Invoice, packing list, bill of lading, certificate of origin, and the importer’s customs number	Extra certificates for foods and chemicals
A parcel or gift	The sender’s ID, and a statement of the items and their value	A Belgian mobile number for the consignee if there is one

In Jeddah the export declaration is ours to issue. An expatriate departing permanently gives us a copy of the final exit visa where it applies, and a car owner brings the traffic department’s paper cancelling the registration for export. The shipping documents page describes every paper, and the customs clearance page walks through release.

What cannot be shipped to Belgium or needs a permit

What most often stops private shipments at the European border is not the dangerous banned item but food. A tin of ghee, some village cheese or cured meat among the kitchenware makes the inspector open every carton. Untreated timber in a crate or pallet is a second common cause. We go over this list with you before packing:

Item	Ruling
Meat, dairy, ghee and their products	Banned in personal baggage and parcels
Live plants, seeds and soil	With a plant health certificate
Medicines	A personal quantity with a prescription, and narcotic ones with prior permission
Weapons, ammunition and combat knives	Banned without a Belgian licence
Ivory, skins of protected animals and coral	Banned without the international convention certificate
Counterfeits	Seized and destroyed, with a fine
Perfumes, aerosols and loose batteries	Restricted by air, and shipped by sea

The general list is on the prohibited items page. If you do not find something there, send its photo before it goes into the carton.

Delivery in Antwerp, Bruges, Leuven and the other cities

After the vessel berths, our agent lodges the import declaration, and once customs gives the go-ahead the container leaves on a truck for your address. The order is always clearance, then delivery. Belgium is a small country, and its furthest cities from the coast are no more than three hours away by road. But each city has its character: Antwerp is a port city with a low-emission zone, Bruges is a historic centre with narrow cobbled streets where heavy trucks are restricted, and Leuven is a university city whose traffic plan limits vehicles entering its centre.

City	Distance from Zeebrugge	Delivery note
Bruges	About 15 km	The historic centre is served by a small vehicle shuttling from the truck
Ghent	About 60 km	A student city, with a low-emission zone in its centre
Antwerp	About 100 km	Tall narrow houses, and a ladder lift to the window
Brussels	About 110 km	A parking reservation from the commune, and nineteen communes each with its own procedure
Leuven and its surroundings	About 135 km	Student residences, and delivery slots outside peak hours
Luxembourg	About 330 km	The shipment leaves under a transit document and is cleared there

Write the address the way it is written there: the street name then the house number, then the four-digit postcode and the name of the city. State the floor and the type of building, and the language the consignee prefers for contact: Dutch in the north, French in the south, and both in Brussels. The destination is detailed on the shipping to Belgium page.

Services for individuals, companies, government bodies and embassies

One route and four kinds of customer, each measuring the service by a different yardstick. An individual wants a clear figure and someone to carry the worry. A company wants a fixed date and a tax invoice. A government body wants commitment to the date of the event. A diplomatic mission wants a procedure that preserves the status and privacy of the shipment. Jeddah has many consulates, and Brussels has embassies and international organisations, so this last kind is present on the route in both directions.

Customer	What they need	What we provide
Individuals and families	Moving a home or cartons without daily follow-up	A survey, an itemised price, and one coordinator from Jeddah to the front door
Students and pilgrims	A few cartons at the lowest charge	Shared containers on announced dates, and collection from the residence or hotel
Companies and factories	Repeat shipments with disciplined paperwork	A standing contract, an account manager, and a report at every stop
Government bodies and universities	Exhibits, printed matter and delegations	Arrival before the exhibition date, and return of what comes back afterwards
Embassies and consulates	A transferred staff member’s baggage, correspondence and office furniture	Coordination with the administration, packing with its delegate present, and a file according to the consignee’s status

Official documents leave in a sealed envelope with its own tracking number, are handed over against the signature of the named person and not the reception desk, and their charge starts from SAR 83. A transferred diplomat’s baggage needs the mission’s letter in the file.

Air freight from Jeddah to Belgium

The aircraft is for parcels and urgent spare parts, and for anything light with a near deadline. The shipment enters the cargo village at King Abdulaziz Airport, where it is weighed, measured and X-rayed, then loaded onto a direct flight when one is available, or onto a flight passing through a transit airport in the Gulf or Europe. It lands at Brussels Airport, or at Liège, one of the largest cargo airports in Europe. The door-to-door time is 3 to 6 days, with delivery to the address after clearance.

• For whom: a spare part for a stopped factory, a trader’s samples, a student’s suitcases, a pilgrim’s gifts, and an electronic or medical device shipped with its battery inside it and its report where needed.
• The calculation: the parcel is weighed and measured, its three dimensions in centimetres are multiplied and divided by 6000, and the charge falls on the higher of the two figures. You will find this in the volumetric weight calculator.
• The price: a kilogram from SAR 23, dropping as the shipment gets heavier, a small parcel not exceeding 5 kg from SAR 110, and an envelope of documents from SAR 83.
• The service: to the airport for anyone with a customs agent there, or to the address with clearance and delivery.
• What does not fly: flammable liquids, pressurised containers and loose batteries, and household furniture, whose air charge runs to several times the sea rate.

See the air freight page for the service itself, and the article air freight office in Jeddah for how a parcel is handed in at the cargo village.

Collection from Jeddah’s districts and nearby towns

Jeddah is a long strip on the coast running from Dhahban in the north to Al-Khumra in the south, and its two ends are more than seventy kilometres apart. Our crew reaches the northern districts such as Obhur, Al-Shati, Al-Zahra, Al-Mohammadiyah and Al-Naeem, the central districts such as Al-Rawdah, Al-Hamra, Al-Salamah, Al-Faisaliyah, Al-Safa and Al-Marwah, and the eastern and southern districts such as Al-Samer, Al-Hamdaniyah, Al-Aziziyah, Al-Kandarah and Al-Balad. We also collect from the towns that in practice depend on Jeddah port:

Place	Distance from Jeddah	How we collect
Jeddah’s districts	Inside the city	From the door, with dismantling and packing on site
Makkah	About 80 km	From the home or hotel, with a small vehicle in the hillside districts
Thuwal	About 80 km north	From university housing with a prior entry permit
King Abdullah Economic City	About 100 km north	For families and factories, by prior appointment
Taif	About 170 km	Brought to the Jeddah warehouse the day before it is loaded into the container

If you hand back your home in Jeddah before your Belgian address is ready, your furniture stays packed and inventoried in our warehouse until you give the word to load it. The terms are on the storage page, and the cities we cover on the service cities page.

Steps to book a shipment from Jeddah to Belgium

1. The request: you send what you want to ship, your district in Jeddah, and the Belgian city and its postcode.
2. Establishing your status: are you relocating, studying, a visitor posting gifts home, or trading? Your answer shapes the customs file.
3. Survey and price: we estimate the volume or weight and suggest the method, and the price reaches you line by line with the time.
4. Choosing the method and insurance: sea, air or both, and you decide whether to add insurance and on what value.
5. Packing and inventory: dismantling, packing and numbering at your premises, and you sign the contents list.
6. Export: the export declaration, then the container enters the port or the parcel the cargo village.
7. Follow-up: the container or waybill number, and a message at sailing and arrival.
8. Clearance and delivery: our agent clears and agrees the day with the consignee, then unloading and a signed receipt.

Following the shipment, tracking and insurance

Between Jeddah and Belgium the vessel passes one canal, one strait and four seas, and the container is lifted by at least two cranes. Tracking tells you where it has got to, and insurance protects you from what may happen on the way; they are two separate things. The first is always part of the service, and the second is your choice.

• Sea tracking: type the container number into the carrier’s site to see which port the box last left and when it is due to berth.
• Air tracking: the air waybill number shows the parcel’s status from the cargo village to delivery. The method is on the track your shipment page.
• Our notices: at sealing of the container, entry to the port, sailing, the Suez transit, berthing, customs release, and fixing the delivery day.
• Insurance: a percentage of the declared value, covering loss and damage door to door. The terms are on the cargo insurance page.

Shipping from Belgium to Jeddah

The route works in both directions. A student who has finished at Leuven comes home with books, a Saudi family ships what it bought on holiday, and a trader in Jeddah imports spare parts, machinery, chocolate and foodstuffs. Our agent collects from the Belgian address and combines purchases from several sellers into one shipment, which then sails from Antwerp or Zeebrugge to Jeddah Islamic Port, or flies to King Abdulaziz Airport.

• Used belongings: they enter the Kingdom as personal effects with a contents list and a copy of the ID or residence permit.
• Commercial goods: products that fall under Saudi technical regulations need a SABER registration and a certificate of conformity in hand before they leave Belgium.
• A car: importing one into the Kingdom has conditions on age and specifications, so ask before you buy.

If your destination is another European country, there is the article shipping from Saudi Arabia to Europe.

Home Safe’s tips before shipping to Belgium

• Start with the Belgian address, not the furniture: measure the door and the staircase and ask about the window before deciding what ships.
• Register yourself at the commune as soon as you arrive, since every relief paper is built on that registration.
• Write in the list the name of each item, its count and its used value, and do not settle for the words “household goods”.
• Check your car’s emissions class if you will live in Antwerp, Brussels or Ghent.
• Keep a paper copy of the list and the bill of lading in your hand luggage on the day you travel.

How do you choose a shipping company from Jeddah to Belgium?

Shipping offices in Jeddah are many, and most ship to the Gulf and Egypt and know those roads well. Belgium is a different route with European rules, and someone who has not worked it gives you a low price because they do not know what awaits the shipment there. These questions reveal the difference in five minutes:

What you ask about	A reassuring answer	A worrying answer
Legal standing	A commercial registration, a contract and a stamped receipt	A transfer to a personal account with no paper
Arrival port	Names Zeebrugge or Antwerp and explains why	“To Europe” with no port named
The relief	Asks how long you have lived here and about your commune registration	“Used goods pay no customs” without a single question
The car	Mentions conformity, registration tax and the region	Stops at the sea charge
Delivery	Asks about the floor, the staircase and where the truck can stop	“You collect it from the port” on arrival

Common mistakes when shipping from Jeddah to Belgium

• The container sailing before its owner has a registered address in Belgium.
• Shipping an old car to a city with a low-emission zone without checking its class.
• Costing the car on the sea charge alone, and forgetting the duty, the tax and the registration tax.
• Putting ghee, cheese or honey that is not commercially packed among the kitchen things.
• Loading damp carpets or mattresses into a container that will stay shut for a month.
• Shipping a sofa that will not pass the staircase of the Belgian house without asking about a window lift.
• Sending Hajj purchases by air on the last day, when the sea would have done had they been handed over early.

Why Home Safe for shipping from Jeddah to Belgium?

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 shipping from Jeddah to Belgium

How much does shipping from Jeddah to Belgium cost?

A saloon car on a RoRo vessel out of Jeddah port starts from SAR 2,800, part-load furniture by sea from SAR 5,500, and a full-house furniture container from SAR 11,000. By air, a kilogram starts from SAR 23, a parcel of no more than 5 kg from SAR 110, and documents from SAR 83. The final figure is on 0552803439.

How many days does a shipment need from Jeddah until it reaches Belgium?

The vessel sails from Jeddah to the North Sea in 14 to 20 days. With loading, export, clearance and delivery, the time from your door to the consignee’s door becomes 25 to 35 days for a full container, 30 to 38 days for a part load, and 24 to 32 days for a car. An air parcel arrives in 3 to 6 days.

Does the container arrive at Zeebrugge or at Antwerp?

The two ports now belong to a single authority and lie about 100 km apart. Zeebrugge is the car port and has a deep-sea container quay, while Antwerp is where most container lines call. We book on the line that matches your date, whether direct or with a change of vessel at an intermediate port, and we name the arrival port to you before you pay.

Do I pay customs on my household furniture when it enters Belgium?

You do not if you are moving your normal place of residence there and meet the conditions in current practice: 12 consecutive months living outside the European Union, goods you have owned and used for 6 months, and bringing them in within 12 months of settling. Anything else is charged 21% value added tax and a duty that follows the type of item.

Can my Saudi car be shipped to Belgium and registered there?

It ships on a RoRo vessel to Zeebrugge or inside a container. Registering it goes through three stops: customs clearance ending in an electronic notice to the vehicle registration office, then a roadworthiness test and individual approval for non-European specifications, then a registration tax that differs from one region to another.

What are the charges on a car in Belgium?

Current practice is a 10% customs duty on the value of the car plus its transport to the Union border, then 21% value added tax on the total. Someone moving residence is exempt from both if the car has been theirs and in their use for six months. The regional registration tax usually stays outside this relief.

Can my car enter the cities of Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent?

These three cities have low-emission zones, where older diesel and petrol cars are banned according to their emissions class. A car with a foreign plate is registered in the zone’s system before it enters.

What is the cheapest way to ship from Jeddah to Belgium?

The sea, always. A part load for anything under 15 cubic metres, and a RoRo vessel for a car whose engine runs. Air only becomes cheaper for a handful of kilograms.

Do you ship dates and pilgrims’ gifts to Belgium?

Yes. Dates in sealed packs enter in personal quantities, and they are among the few fruits for which no plant health certificate is required under the Union rules in current practice. Prayer rugs, prayer beads, clothing and non-alcoholic perfumes are accepted. We do not ship Zamzam water as cargo; what is allowed is the traveller’s dedicated pack that flies with them.

Will my electrical appliances work in Belgium?

The voltage there is 230 volts as in the Kingdom, but the frequency is 50 hertz and the socket takes two round pins with an earth pin. So every appliance needs a plug adaptor, and anything with a motor or compressor should have its label checked: if it reads 50/60 hertz it is fine, otherwise selling it in Jeddah costs less than shipping it.

Do you deliver outside Brussels?

Yes, to Antwerp, Bruges, Leuven, Ghent, Mechelen and Hasselt in the Flemish north, and to Liège, Namur, Charleroi and Mons in the Walloon south. The country is small, and the address furthest from the port is reached by the truck in about three hours. We also deliver to Luxembourg under a transit document.

What must not go into baggage cartons bound for Belgium?

Meat, dairy, ghee and unlicensed honey, live plants and seeds without a certificate, medicines without a prescription, counterfeits, and bladed weapons and firearms.

Do you ship commercial goods and equipment from Jeddah?

Yes, by full container, by the cubic metre, or by air for samples. We collect from the industrial cities in Jeddah and from the Al-Khumra warehouses. The Belgian importer needs a European customs identification number, and some items need the European conformity mark or a safety data sheet.

Is insurance on the shipment compulsory?

It is not compulsory; it is a separate line in the offer calculated as a percentage of the value written in the contents list. We recommend it for a car and for a full-house container, because the shipping line’s liability is limited and does not reach the value of what is in the container.

Do you collect from Belgium to Jeddah?

Yes. Our agent collects from the house, the student residence or the shop in any Belgian city, and it ships by sea from Antwerp or Zeebrugge to Jeddah Islamic Port, or by air to King Abdulaziz Airport.