Shipping to and from Greece

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You can contact us during business hours at:
gr.export@maersk.com for all Greek Ports.

For more information about ocean freight price, please click here and then contact sales team for further assistance.

To find an inland price, please click here.

Cargo declaration restrictions:

• Greek deadlines for import cargo declarations :
• Dangerous (IMO) cargo declaration: Three (3) working days prior to the vessel's arrival
• Cargo declaration : Two (2) working days prior to the vessel's arrival.
• All declarations submitted to Greek Port Authorities have to be translated into Greek.
• Taking into consideration the amount of work necessary to have all cargo timely and correctly declared, it is vital that all containers to be discharged at a Greek port are duly manifested at their port of origin, within the above mentioned deadlines. No factice/proforma bill of lading will be accepted by the Greek port authorities.
• Any deviation to the above rules and deadlines, result in custom's fines from 300 to 900 EUR.
• Very important: Failure to provide full IMO declaration on time, may even result in the coast guards prohibiting vessels entry to port.

Commodity restrictions:

• Piraeus: All import shipments of cigarettes via Piraeus port are accepted only under CY basis.
• Thessaloniki: All import shipments of cigarettes via Thessaloniki ports are accepted only on CY basis.
• Transit cargo: Both merchant and carrier haulage of shipments of cigarettes in transit to all Balkan destinations (Serbia-Montenegro, Kosovo, FYROM, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania) are not accepted.
• Animal products : Import of frozen pork meat ex Brazil and China is prohibited irregardless whether cargo is for final destination Greece or Balkan countries.

Weight / Measurement restrictions:

• 45 foot containers not acceptable outside Piraeus and Heraklion port areas, thus the cargo must be stripped within their port areas. Alternately, we can accept and perform trucking of 45 HC containers to Serbia and Montenegro from entry ports of Thessaloniki, Bar and Koper.

Special cargo restrictions:

• Other OOG, B/B and IMO cargo are subject to standard Maersk approval procedures.
• Full containers with IMO cargo that are also temperature controlled, can not be accepted for plugging at Piraeus port. Maersk liability stops upon container discharging at Piraeus port.
• IMO containers will not be accepted by Piraeus terminal neither for stripping nor for stuffing at port warehouses. CFS bs/l of IMO cargo to/from Piraeus port will not be accepted. 

B/l clauses, documentation restrictions:

• Through bills of lading can be issued for any destination within Greece.
• Sea waybills ( WB ) are accepted.
• For all bs/l in and out of Greece please add following clause
• "Where the container has not been stuffed by carrier, carrier has no access to the cargo and cannot verify the current condition, quantity and quality of same, as described by shipper"

Please find important information per container type to below PDF:

Country: Greece
Direction: Import
Effective Date: 1^st Feb 2024
Expiry Date: Until further notice
Free time: Calendar days (Public holidays are counted as standard calendar days)
Currency: EUR
Invoiced: Per container, per calendar days, per container type & size
Application: The free time & charges applied will be those in place on the origin price calculation (PCD)

Freetime: “Free Time” is the period agreed between the Carrier and the Merchant for which Demurrage & Detention and Terminal Storage shall not be paid by the Merchant.

Combined D&D: Compensation payable when the Merchant holds Carrier’s Container beyond the agreed amount of Free Time for the combined period of inside and outside the terminal, port, or depot. (Invoiced as Detention)

Terminal storage: Compensation for utilizing the port, terminal, or depot facilities beyond the agreed amount of Free Time. (Invoiced by Terminals to receivers directly)

Useful links:

• For Maersk SPOT DnD Tariff, please click here
• D&D Calculator, to know more about it, please click here
• Terms for Detention and Demurrage, please click here

Tariff:

• Non-operating reefer (NOR) is considered as Dry Container.
• Shipper's own containers (SOC) are not subject to Combined D&D and are subject to Terminal Storage billed by terminals to receivers.
• Shipper’s Own Container is considered as equivalent to corresponding container type and cargo type. Examples: A Tank with Dry cargo follows terms of Dry equipment, while a Tank with IMO cargo follows terms of IMO.
• At Piraeus, Plug-in / Plug Out, Monitoring & Electricity costs are invoiced by Maersk as "Demurrage."

Combined Detention & Demurrage

Import Terminal Storage – Thessaloniki

Storage, Plug-in / Plug Out, Electricity costs are invoiced by Terminal to receivers.

Note: In case customs clearance are performed by Maersk on behalf of customers, Storage as well as Plug-in, Monitoring, Electricity costs for reefer cargo, will be billed by carrier according to general Terminal tariff in force at discharge date.

Import Terminal Storage – Piraeus

Storage costs are invoiced by Terminal to receivers.

Plug-in / Plug Out, Monitoring & Electricity costs are invoiced by Maersk as "Demurrage", Tariff:

REEF containers:

Cost for genset is 50 EUR per day.

Dry containers reuse policy

As of 1^st June 2019 all requests for equipment re-use on Merchant Haulage are being managed through Avantida digital platform.
Your truck carrier will need to register with Avantida at Avantida-The platform. Once registered in the platform, truckers will have access to Avantida 's automated request process, returning accurate responses within minutes and delivering time and overall cost savings.
A charge of 150 EURO will be applicable for approved equipment re-use requests and is payable directly to Avantida platform.

New Export Pick-Up & Import Drop-off surcharge tariff - Greece (15 02 2020)

In order to continue to maintain the quality of the services we provide, Maersk is implementing the Export PICK-UP and the Import DROP-OFF surcharge, effective as of 15^th February 2020.

Sur(When empty container pick up location is different than load port & empty container drop off location is different than discharge port)

Export Pick-Up

(applicable when empty container pick up location is different than load port)

The tariff amounts are detailed as follows:

Import Drop-Off

(applicable when empty container drop off location is different than discharge port)

The tariff amounts are detailed as follows:

All Customers can require empty container pick up or drop off from / to an inland depot or port different the from load / discharge port provided that request is received in written and Maersk has reverted with written authorization.

Please contact gr.export@maersk.com for PIC-UP & gr.import@maersk.com for DROP-OFF requests.

Notes:

1. Container pick-up might be restricted in case of equipment deficit at requested origin
2. Container drop-off might be restricted in case of equipment surplus at requested destination
3. Specific container numbers’ drop-off (off hire units) may not be authorized in alternative areas

Empty return to PCT when a container has been discharged to OLP

For the cases that a container has Empty Return to PCT and the Discharge was in OLP, the Preadvice tickets in PCT since they cannot be issued by the custom brokers are automatically issued by MAERSK upon the vessels arrival.

Truckers can retrieve them in their system by searching them by container nr and “DUMMY” booking MAERSK001 and assign them to themselves.

Empty return of damaged containers

All Damaged containers can be returned to the location mentioned on the Empty Return Document except from those returning to Elliniki that will should be returned to HARTSAS depot instead.

Inland haulage includes transportation from vendors to the port of shipment, and from discharge port to the point of stripping the ocean container by truck and / or rail.

We ensure that your products are moved at the right time to the right place. Whatever your need for inland transportation, you can count on us to deliver an effective and cost efficient inland haulage service.

Our offering includes

• Multiple modes of transport (less than container load / full container load)
• Inter-European trucking services (full truck load - FTL / less truck load - LTL)
• Large network of quality transport providers
• Constant monitoring and quality assurance
• Timely pick-up and delivery
• Coverage of all major Greek and greater Balkans region inland points / container ports
• One-stop-shopping combining your land and ocean transport needs

Below you may find some of our main inland services and their cost:

• Equipment Positioning Service - Export : EUR 35 / container Applicable only for export SD shipments out of Thessaloniki port
• Waiting time
  
  • 0 to 2 Hours - 0 EUR per hour
  • 2 + Hours - 25 EUR per hour
• Waiting time due to customs inspection in port: eur 50,00 per container
• outside of working hours & weekend deliveries (working hours: Monday - Friday 06:00 - 19:00) - 50 EUR per container
• Multistop addon : 50 EUR per container per stop (if for example 2 stops, i.e. 3 stuffing locations, then amount to be charged is eur 100)* * cost of additional km due to deviation from main route are not included
• De-coupling / Pick & Drop
  When the trucker leaves the container (and the chassis if relevant) at shipper’s / consignee’s premises and collects the full / empty container later the same day or a day after. Is covering the cost of the second trucking trip and the chassis rental when relevant.
  
  1. both drop & pick of container happen at the same day
     1. stuffing location up to 30km radius from port / depot - +50% of carrier haulage cost
     2. stuffing location above 30km radius from port / depot - +100% of carrier haulage cost
  2. additional days that chassis is kept at customer premises
     1. stuffing location up to 30km radius from port / depot - 100 EUR per day
     2. stuffing location above 30km radius from port / depot - 100 EUR per day
• Specialized chassis (eg tilt chassis)
  20' size container - 50 EUR
  40' size container - 150 EUR
• Imo addon (ADR license): 50 EUR per container applicable when special ADR license is required
• Waste cargo license (waste paper excluded): 50 EUR per container
• Direct delivery from / to vessel (including non-working hours): 100 EUR per container applicable mainly for specific types of waste cargo which are not allowed to be stowed at Piraeus container yard, therefore containers are moved in / out of terminal directly at vessel loading / discharge time.

For more details about our services, please contact us

Below are the most common local charges we have in Greece, they are all subject to change and valid until further notice.
Please also visit our global Surcharge Definition Glossary