Car Shipping to Romania

Why ship a car to Romania from the UK

The Ship Cars is a specialist UK vehicle export company moving cars, SUVs, classics, motorbikes and light commercials to Romania every month. Post-Brexit Europe is still the lowest-friction export market for British-registered vehicles, with weekly RORO frequency, mature customs brokerage and predictable inland trucking once the vehicle clears the destination port. Typical clients on this lane include EU-based dealers sourcing British stock, alongside private owners relocating to Romania and returning residents importing a personal vehicle. Our UK-to-Romania corridor is engineered around predictable transit, transparent pricing and full compliance with Romania customs.

Vehicles depart from Liverpool, Tilbury, Immingham and arrive at Constanța via short-sea Channel and North Sea routings. Typical door-to-port turnaround is 10–16 days to constanța from southampton, supported by marine all-risks insurance, GPS-tracked UK collection and bonded warehousing where required. For an instant indication of cost, use our car shipping cost calculator or request a tailored quote on our quote page.

How UK to Romania car shipping works

Every shipment to Romania follows the same six-step pipeline: free quotation, UK collection or self-drop at Liverpool, bonded UK warehousing and pre-shipment photos, HMRC NOVA / C88 export clearance handled by our UK customs clearance team, ocean transit to Constanța (and onward feeder to Constanța where required), and destination customs handover. You choose the shipping mode that best matches the vehicle profile and budget — see the full breakdown on our car shipping costs page or compare live RORO sailing dates to Romania.

Romania ports, routing and transit

Vehicles bound for Romania are typically routed through Constanța as the lead discharge port, with Constanța available as alternatives depending on sailing schedule and onward inland transport. We schedule loads to match weekly RORO sailing schedules to Romania and consolidated shared container departures from the UK. For sole-use loads we book 20ft and 40ft container slots on the same rotation.

• Port of Constanța
• UK departure: Southampton
• UK departure: Tilbury
• UK departure: Bristol (Portbury)

Romania import duty, VAT and customs in 2026

Importing a vehicle into Romania is regulated and document-driven. The headline framework is summarised below; our team verifies every figure against the latest Romania customs schedule before quoting.

• EU type approval and Certificate of Conformity (CoC)
• Post-Brexit 10% import duty and country-specific VAT (TVA, IVA, MwSt, BTW)
• National roadworthiness inspections (ITV, contrôle technique, TÜV, APK, IPO)
• Re-registration with local plates and CO2-based road tax

Document checklist for Romania

• V5C registration
• Passport
• Commercial invoice
• Bill of Lading
• Certificate of Conformity

For full country-specific customs rules, see our Romania import guides and articles, our UK and Romania customs clearance service, or use the duty-inclusive cost calculator for a landed estimate to Constanța.

Other Europe destinations from the UK

We ship to 8+ other Europe countries from the UK on the same trade lanes as Romania. Many customers shipping to Romania also enquire about Bulgaria, Poland, Greece because routing, customs documentation and transit windows overlap.