Freight Cost from China to Germany
What does freight from China to Germany cost? On Shenma Fastship's DDP lanes, from 100 kg with duty and import VAT included, sea freight is from €1.25/kg, rail from €1.65/kg, trucking from €2.30/kg and air from €5.50/kg. Addresses other than Amazon warehouses carry a delivery surcharge.
Sea is the cheapest and slowest at 45–52 days; air is picked up 8–14 calendar days after handover. These are reference prices; the quote for your goods is binding. Below is how each lane is billed, so you can estimate the freight before you ask.
Reference Prices and Transit Times
- Sea / sea + truck: from €1.25/kg, 45–52 calendar days, sorted in Germany, trucks straight to Amazon warehouses
- Rail: from €1.65/kg, 32–40 calendar days, batteries accepted, direct to Amazon warehouses in Germany
- Trucking via Central Asia: from €2.30/kg, 16–22 days from departure, loaded in Shenzhen, weekly cut-off Saturday 16:00 (Beijing Time)
- Air: from €5.50/kg, 8–14 calendar days from handover to pickup
- All DDP to Germany from 100 kg, duty and import VAT included
What Decides the Cost
- Weight or volume: billed on the greater of actual and volumetric weight, L × W × H (cm) ÷ 6000
- At least 12 kg billed per carton
- Air bills only 50% of the volumetric excess: for a carton of 10 kg actual and 14 kg volumetric weight, 12 kg is billed
- Delivery address: addresses other than Amazon warehouses carry a delivery surcharge
- More than 5 product types per shipment costs a surcharge
- Customs: with your own EORI and VAT ID (VAT number registered outside Belgium), VAT deferment is cheaper than DDP; import VAT goes through your VAT return and duty is billed at cost
Cartons, Pallets and Other Cargo
- UPS delivers cartons up to 70 kg, 270 cm on the longest side and 400 cm girth; surcharges apply from a 100 cm longest side, a 76 cm second side, 24 kg or a 300 cm girth
- Pallets and crates go on the oversized lanes
- Sea LCL, full containers (FCL), consolidated and sensitive cargo are quoted separately
- Goods for the EU must carry a CE mark that meets EU standards
Estimate Your Freight
- 1Measure each carton (L × W × H in cm) and weigh it
- 2Enter the cartons in our CBM calculator: it shows the chargeable weight and an estimated freight on each lane with a reference price
- 3Or multiply by hand: chargeable weight × the lane's per-kg price, e.g. 160 kg × the rail price
- 4Send us the product, the carton list and the delivery address for a binding quote
Frequently Asked Questions
DDP sea freight is from €1.25/kg (min. 100 kg), duty and import VAT included, with 45–52 calendar days to pickup. Sea + truck goes straight to Amazon warehouses in Germany; other addresses carry a delivery surcharge.
DDP air is from €5.50/kg (min. 100 kg), picked up 8–14 calendar days after handover. Only 50% of the amount by which volumetric weight exceeds actual weight is billed.
Yes, on DDP: we clear customs and pay duty and import VAT, all included in the freight. With your own EORI and VAT ID you can choose VAT deferment instead, at a lower freight rate.
Yes. Addresses other than Amazon warehouses carry a delivery surcharge, which we state in the quote.
Full containers (20GP, 40GP, 40HQ) are quoted on request. From Shenzhen, Shanghai, Ningbo and Xiamen to Hamburg they take about 38 days port to port, from Qingdao about 50 days.
Warehouses
Dongguan
Building 3, No. 4 Chenwu East Road, Houjie Town, Dongguan, Guangdong, ChinaShenzhen
Unit 101, No. 6 Ruikang Road, Hangcheng Subdistrict, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, ChinaYiwu
No. 755 Xuefeng West Road, Beiyuan Subdistrict, Yiwu, Zhejiang, ChinaXiamen
Unit 7-106A, Phase II, Jiasheng Logistics Park, Pulin Road, Guankou Town, Jimei District, Xiamen, Fujian, ChinaFuzhou
No. 41 Dutou, Menkou Village, Xiangqian Town, Minhou County, Fuzhou, Fujian, ChinaNingbo
West No. 2, Terminal 2, Ningbo Lishe International Airport, Haishu District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, ChinaShanghai
Building B7, Lane 3199 Jiasong Middle Road, Huaxin Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai, ChinaQingdao
Unit 101, Building 4, China Eastern Logistics Park, Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport, Jiaozhou, Qingdao, Shandong, China
We run our own pickup points across China, so we can collect from your door quickly wherever you are. Ningbo, Shanghai and Qingdao handle our highest volumes, so dropping off there is fast too.
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