Fast and Affordable Road Freight Shipping Services Italy
Barrington Freight is a leading UK business and cargo freight forwarder with decades of experience shipping to Italy.
- Standard and Express Deliveries to Italy
- Bespoke Size Solutions
- Customs Clearance Support
- Professional Experienced Team
- Business-to-Business Deliveries
- Shipping Services To & From Italy
- Large & Small Consignments Delivered
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International Freight to Italy
Barrington Freight simplifies the shipping process to Italy, navigating the complexities of the post-Brexit commercial landscape with ease. We offer a range of services including next-day delivery, express, and standard delivery options for palletised goods, groupage, part, and full loads, all tailored to meet your specific needs. Our reputation is grounded in our professionalism and the meticulous care we devote to every consignment, ensuring that your shipments from the UK to Italy are handled with the highest level of precision and safety.
With Barrington Freight, you can have peace of mind knowing that your goods are in the most capable hands. As seasoned experts in the express road freight and commercial cargo sector between the UK and Italy, arranging deliveries from Italy to the UK is equally efficient and straightforward.
To get started simply give us a call 01268 525 444 or request an online shipping quote.
WHY SHIP TO ITALY FROM THE UK WITH BARRINGTON?
- Full load and groupage shipping.
- Dedicated van courier to Italy option.
- We maintain 24/7 contact with every vehicle, so you can always track your shipment and get regular updates.
- BIFA membership and full liability insurance ensure safe and professional transport.
- Commitment to excellent customer service, supported by glowing testimonials.
- Help with custom clearance from the UK into Italy.
- We can help shipping to Italy from UK and shipping to UK from Italy.
- You will need an EORI number when shipping to Italy.
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Efficiency Is Central to Our Italian Freight Service
Our experienced Italian freight advisors are at your service to manage all types of shipments, including those involving heavy machinery or items with unusual shapes or sizes. For specialised regional distribution, we collaborate with local Italian partner depots in key locations such as Milan, Rome, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, and Venice. Utilising these road freight hubs, we are equipped to pick up or deliver across the entire Italian mainland, including regions like Lombardy, Lazio, Campania, Sicily, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, and Tuscany, among others. We also cover the major islands of Sicily and Sardinia.
The Italian motorway network, renowned for its extensive coverage and efficiency, features ‘autostrade’ and ‘superstrade’, facilitating seamless road transportation throughout Italy. This network ensures we can reach every city, town, and village across the country.
For shipments from the UK to Italy, we typically use pallets with base dimensions of 120×100 or 120×80 centimetres. Specialising in cost-effective pallet delivery to Italy, we offer competitive rates for both standard UK and Euro export pallets. We welcome stackable loads, and whether you’re shipping a few wooden pallets as groupage or a full truckload of goods on a dedicated vehicle, we provide the most affordable international shipping rates to Italy.
Road Freight Vehicles For Deliveries to Italy
- Euroliner lorry
- HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle)
- Roll-on/roll-off vans
- Commercial vehicles
- Double-crewed vans
- 7.5 tonners
- Sprinter vans
- Luton vans
- Tail lift vehicles
- 18-tonne vans
We can source vehicles of any size that you need for your shipment to Italy.
Shipping Times From UK to Italy
How Long Does It Take to Ship to Italy?
STANDARD ROAD FREIGHT TO ITALY 4 DAYS
At Barrington Freight, we’re all about delivering exceptional service that’s both high-quality and great value. We carefully select our logistics partners across the UK and Europe to ensure you have access to a broad spectrum of logistical options, ranging from standard freight solutions to quicker deliveries. This ensures that regardless of your shipping requirements, we have the capacity to provide you with reliable and efficient service.
When it comes to shipping goods by road from Italy, several factors come into play, including the specifics of pickup and delivery locations, as well as the intricacies of customs checks.
Our groupage service, which pools together shipments from multiple customers for a cost-effective solution, collects in week 1 and delivers in week 2. For those in need of a faster option, our full load service can transport shipments from Italy to the UK, or vice versa, with collection on day 1 and delivery by day 4, making it the perfect choice for urgent or large shipments that require quick and direct delivery.
Get in touch with our team of professionals today to discuss our delivery options for freight and palletised deliveries to Italy.
EXPRESS SHIPPING TO ITALY 3 DAYS
We offer a range of express shipping services to Italy and from Italy to the UK, ensuring your shipment is collected on day 1 and delivered by day 3. Our flexible solutions include dedicated vehicles such as trucks and vans, tailored to meet your specific requirements, whether that’s tail-lift capability or air-ride suspension for extra care during transit. Our operations team closely monitors the road network, ensuring that your shipment is delivered smoothly and without delays, whether you’re shipping to Italy or from Italy to the UK. Our commitment is to provide fast, secure, and perfectly matched vehicle options for your consignments, supported by our helpful crews, whether you need a one-way delivery or a round trip.
Additionally, we offer a comprehensive door-to-door service, which includes collection from any location in the UK. Our service extends beyond mere delivery; our drivers are equipped to assist with loading or unloading, and we offer custom services such as double-wrapping pallets post-loading. For those with specific needs, like rearranging displays in your store on Turin’s Via Roma after an out-of-hours delivery, our crew is ready and willing to assist. This level of detail in our service offerings ensures that your logistical needs are met with precision and care, every step of the way.
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Freight to Italy Cost
How Much Does Shipping Freight to Italy Cost?
The cost of transporting freight to Italy can vary depending on the collection point in the UK and the final delivery location within Italy. As a general guide, sending one pallet to Rome typically starts from around £264, while a full truckload shipment can cost approximately £2,435. For urgent deliveries, express van services to Rome are also available and may start from roughly £1,760.
For a precise price based on your specific shipment details, we recommend requesting a quick quote.
| Service Type | Example Price |
|---|---|
| 1 Pallet* | £264 |
| Full Load | £2,435 |
| Express Van | £1,760 |
*1plt 120×80×80 cm / stackable
Italian Import Customs Requirements
Customs Considerations, VAT and Prohibited Items
VAT Italy
VAT is known as IVA in Italy. The standard rate is 22 but there are reduced rates for some classes of goods. The Italian Revenue Agency is a good place to find out more about VAT in Italy. Barrington Freight can help with any VAT declarations you may need when shipping from Italy to the UK.
| Goods or Services | VAT Rate Italy |
|---|---|
| Standard taxable goods and services | 22% |
| Reduced rate goods and services (e.g.,some pharmaceutical products and baby products) | 10% |
| Reduced rate goods and services (health and education services provided by welfare associations) | 5% |
| Super-reduced rate goods and services (e.g., basic foodstuffs and certain medical equipment) | 4% |
| Intra-community and international transport | 0% |
Restrictions
Exporting goods from the UK to Italy, as with any EU country, is subject to specific regulations and restrictions aimed at protecting health, safety, the environment and compliance with international agreements. Check with us before shipping to Italy any of the goods outlined below. Note, too, that Italy is more strict in some areas concerning packaging and labelling, as per UK government guidelines.
- Endangered species and products derived from them: Protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), including certain animals, plants and related products.
- Counterfeit and pirated goods: Items that infringe intellectual property rights, such as fake brand-name clothing, accessories and DVDs.
- Certain hazardous chemicals and substances: Restricted under EU regulations, including chemicals that deplete the ozone layer or are persistent organic pollutants.
- Unlicensed pharmaceuticals and drugs: Only approved and properly labelled pharmaceuticals may be exported, subject to stringent regulations.
- Weapons and ammunition: Requires specific licenses and is subject to strict control under both UK and EU legislation.
- Certain food products and agricultural goods: Restrictions or bans may apply to products due to health and safety concerns, including genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and food products not meeting EU standards.
EORI Number Italy
You will need an EORI (Economic Operator Registration and Identification Number) for the UK and any EU country you ship to and from alongside a range of other customs requirements. See our blog on what is an EORI Number? for more information.
Remember, too, that simply registering with HMRC as an importer of goods from Italy will not be sufficient – on its own – to be able to use Italian suppliers.
Barrington Freight operates as a customs clearance agency as well as a team of expert freight forwarders, so we can help you with all of these matters if you need us to, whether you’re importing or exporting. We have the necessary licensing arrangements in place to oversee exported goods from the UK to Italy which has the same regulations in place as every other EU state. Therefore, we can help with multiple consignment deliveries that might include some in Italy and some in other countries, such as those in France, Spain or Belgium, for instance.
Shipping Routes to Italy from the UK
The skilled operations team at Barrington Freight can help you in numerous ways when shipping to Italy, as well as arranging freight to Switzerland and other international destinations with the same level of care and efficiency. We are proud to be members of the British International Freight Association, something that marks us out as true professionals in the British freight forwarding industry. When it comes to arranging B2B shipments to Italy, our knowledge and expertise will be on hand to help ensure your consignment gets to where it needs to be without avoidable delays. To this end, we maintain GPS contact with our drivers as they make their way south through France so that we can re-route them if there are hold-ups on the road ahead that can be bypassed.
In addition, we are able to direct our drivers to help them find the optimal route through the Italian peninsula. When shipping to Italy, many British companies have customers in northern cities, such as Bologna, Turin or Milan. We can also offer a first-rate job for deliveries further south in locations like Naples, Salerno or the port city of Bari. Of course, our services extend beyond simply delivering to major Italian cities such as Rome, Bari, or Reggio Calabria. We transport freight from collection points all over Britain to every one of the 80 Italian provinces. Need yacht spares delivered quickly to Port Mirabello, La Spezia? Consider it handled. Have ceramics from Sassuolo, Modena that must arrive in the UK in perfect condition? Rest assured, they will be delivered safely, just as they left the factory. If you have commercial customers in Sardinia or Sicily, then we will also arrange for a cost-effective onward ferry service. As such, we can help UK exporters to reach the whole of Italy affordably.
Competitive Rates When Shipping Freight To Italy
Since 2007, we’ve specialised in transporting delicate, perishable, and urgent shipments between the UK and Italian locales, covering distances as vast as from Bolzano in South Tyrol to Reggio Calabria at the southern tip. To ensure we meet stringent delivery timelines, we can provide vehicles manned by experienced double crews, allowing for continuous travel when single drivers are required to rest. Our fleet includes nimble Fast Sprinter curtain siders, perfect for delivering your pallets or boxes to and from Italy. Depending on the specifics of your cargo, we might also utilise a 12-tonner, a specialised vehicle with a sliding roof, or even a 40-tonne articulated lorry, all chosen to match the unique requirements of your delivery job.
At Barrington Freight, we aim to keep our costs low, allowing us to pass on savings to the customer without compromising quality. If you are shipping freight to Italy in these post-Brexit times, find out how much you could save. Get a FREE personalised quote today.
Where is Italy Located?
Italy is in Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia. Italy borders France, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia.
Contact Us for Affordable Road Freight to Italy
Our transport options can accommodate even the most unique requests, whether they be UK and EU pallets and cargo or larger and strangely shaped products. Big or small, light or heavy, Barrington Freight is on hand to cater to all your freight needs at a competitive price.
