Importing & Customs
Personal Effects Inside an Imported Vehicle: Why the Boot Should Be Empty
A Korean export yard loads a Hyundai Grand Starex into a container. Somebody puts a few boxes of spare parts, a set…
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Parts Depth Decides Resale: Checking Before You Import a Korean Model
An importer lands a well-chosen Korean unit at a good landed cost and cannot sell it, or sells it and gets it…
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Walvis Bay as a Transit Gateway: Moving Korean Vehicles Into Angola and Katanga
Namibia drives on the left and requires right-hand drive for domestic registration, which closes the Namibian market itself to Korean domestic auction…
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Importing Korean Vehicles Into Mozambique: Why Maputo Rejects Most Korean Stock
Mozambique looks like an obvious market for Korean used vehicles. The Port of Maputo sits on a deepwater channel that already handles…
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Making a Marine Cargo Claim Stick When a Vehicle Arrives Damaged
A Kia Sportage comes out of a container at Abidjan with a creased rear quarter panel and a broken tail light. The…
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Importing Korean Vehicles Into Liberia: The Freeport of Monrovia and the LRA File
Liberia is a right-hand-traffic country, which means the left-hand-drive Hyundai and Kia units that make up the bulk of Korean export supply…
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Importing & Customs
The Drive-Side Map: Which African Markets Can Actually Register a Korean Car
This is the first question in a Korea-to-Africa vehicle programme and it is asked last more often than it is asked first.…
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Choosing a Korean Loading Port: Pyeongtaek, Incheon, Masan, Ulsan and Busan
African importers book “shipment from Korea” and let the agent choose the port. That works until it does not — until a…
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Korean Hybrids and EVs in African Markets: Battery Service Reality Before You Import
Korea’s domestic transition towards electrified vehicles is pushing a growing volume of used hybrids and battery-electric vehicles onto the export market. Hyundai…
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The Korean Export Document Pack an African Clearing Agent Actually Needs
Ask a clearing agent in Tema, Douala or Matadi what stopped their last vehicle file and the answer is almost never the…
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