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Advice on shipping a car from UK to Cyprus

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Barrett
  6/4/2017 10:26 EST

Hello,
Please could someone advise about shipping a small car from the UK to south west Cyprus or is it more advantageous to buy a car when we move over there which is already registered in Cyprus?

Corrado
  9/15/2017 09:57 EST

Hi. I have shipped 3 cars to Cyprus Paphos region and purchased a car in Cyprus .
It is easy to ship a car here , the car must be free from finance etc and if it isn't in your name you will need an invoice from the seller .
Cars are charged a duty on import which is set to the emissions of the car . The lower the emissions the lower the duty to pay . Try to get under 150 emissions otherwise you could get a hefty duty bill . You can look on the Cyprus gov website and it explains how the tax works .
Once the car has been delivered to a shipping company or taken to Southampton for its journey ( usually a roll on roll off ) cars must start and drive for ro ro transport , you will get the agent in Cyprus to call you when it arrives , usually 12 days later .
The agent can sort out port charges and customs clearance then you can collect your car ( with insurance and Passport , no passport no car !!)
Then you need to go to the customs office and pay duty if any and then mot the car then go to dept of transport (paphos) and register the car , then get number plates and that's it !!
Sounds worse than it is .

I think if you get a good car in uk or own one it is much better bringing it over both financially and you know what you are getting . Look at Best Cyprus cars website for car prices .

Hope this helps. Phill

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