Freight – Importing / Exporting

When sending vehicles, tyres and other testing equipment to SHPG please be sure to understand the process.

• SHPG recommend using airfreight as opposed to couriers such as DHL, Fedex and UPS. Airfreight is often just as fast as couriers due to the different way both methods are treated by customs and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.. Please ensure all freight is consigned to Airport or Seaport destination Christchurch. If freight goes to Auckland, extra time and expense is required to get to SHPG
• If you decide to use a courier company such as UPS, Fedex, DHL etc, please make sure that you inform the courier company that you are sending the freight DDP (Delivery Duty Paid). This means that NZ Government fees such as Goods & Services Tax and customs fees are prepaid and your freight is not held up.
• Please see these easy to understand flow charts prepared by Alan Johansson at Anglo Pacific International alan@anglopacific.co.nz
  
  Import - document flow (Pdf)
  
  Import – cargo flow (Pdf)
  
  Export – cargo /document flow (Pdf)
  
  
• Shipments should be addressed to the test leader and test facililty number, not SHPG... Click here for a printable shipping address sheet.
  
• Shipments to be exported are required to leave SHPG in the same format and via the same Freight Forwarder as they arrived.

PLEASE NOTE: Courier companies (DHL, Fedex, UPS etc) do not  have the facility or flexibility to enter goods into New Zealand on a temporary basis. This may cause delays that could affect your test. Please see couriering goods to SHPG

SHPG and associates have worked with many New Zealand Customs Brokers /Freight Fowarder’s over the years. Please ask us for a recommendation Contact Us.

Important Note:

An important change has been made in the way New Zealand Customs Service interprets Section 116 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996, which governs “Temporary Imports” into New Zealand.

Previously, goods temporarily imported into New Zealand for winter testing e.g. tyres and rims, where permitted to be destroyed in New Zealand rather than exported out of the country.

The new regulations mean that:

All goods imported into New Zealand under a temporary import agreement MUST now be exported out of New Zealand unless:

1) All duties and GST on the goods are paid before destruction, either on arrival into NZ or at the completion of testing.
2) All goods are destroyed in a way which makes them commercially unusable.
3) All disposal costs are paid. SHPG can assist with organising disposal.

Please click here for further information.