Martintrux Dover offer professional Customs Clearance Management for Imports and Exports through all UK Ports and Airports, 24 hours every day from our offices situated under the famous White Cliffs of Dover.

Martintrux Dover is the UK’s leading Agent and Customs Broker for specialist requirements of companies arranging offshore or outsourced assembly, manufacture and processing. We have vast experience of achieving any Customs Duty and VAT benefits available for our clients.

Established – under our formal title of Whytecliffs of Dover Ltd - in 1982 as part of a large group to handle traffic shipping via the English Channel, Martintrux Dover became independent in 1988 and has embraced technological advances to now manage Customs Clearance of world-wide Export and Import shipments through all UK Airports, Ports and designated Inland Customs Locations. We have established links with similar Agencies around the globe, to have instant access to local knowledge, and rates, wherever our clients wish to operate.

Working mainly for direct Importers and Exporters, our independent status allows us to also be contracted to several major Freight Forwarders and Hauliers; to handle Customs declarations for any type of freight they carry. Martintrux Dover has therefore gained valuable experience and knowledge of Customs requirements for a vast range of goods and circumstances. On a regular basis, we are dealing with repeat and volume shipments of similar product every day; High-Street-names; luxury brand labels; blue-chip PLCs; corporations arranging one-off special projects requiring weeks of planning; all the way through to Traders just starting their businesses or exploring opportunities.

Calling on our own network of independent Agents across the globe we can offer advice and comparisons for freight forwarding and shipping via Air or Ocean Freight, but do not provide European Transport. Many of our clients use the services of International Hauliers to trade with countries that can be serviced by road (RoRo) and we are in regular contact with the major European Transporters to work together and avoid delays for our mutual customers shipping through the Ferry Ports; Dover, Harwich, Hull, Killingholme, Newhaven, Poole, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Purfleet, and Tilbury.

Martintrux Dover has built an expert team to advise all Duty Reductions and VAT cash-flow advantages which might be available for your business, and how to obtain them. We can calculate Customs charges due varied against different sourcing or buying terms, before you decide to make a purchase or ship your goods.

Clients are able to discuss their aims and requirements with Martintrux Dover in complete confidence.

We constantly review Import and Export procedures, as well as information pumped out from the EU, and are keen to pass on information which may be of advantage to our customers. Martintrux Dover has an excellent reputation with Customs and Traders alike – and we aim to keep it.

Import and Export procedures cover non-EU trades, but intra-EC business may also require declarations to HM Revenue and Customs. Martintrux Dover can assist with INTRASTAT monthly statistical declarations and REDS for wet Excise goods.

We have been assisting Importers and Exporters for more than 25 years and we will be happy to answer any enquiries you may have for dealing with HM Revenue and Customs.

Advice over the telephone or via eMail is usually free - Why not give us a call and see if we can help reduce your costs?