Do you handle ATA Carnets and temporary export for events, demos, or touring?

Yes. We prepare and manage ATA Carnets for temporary export of AV kit, demo equipment, and trade-show assets across the EU and beyond. Our team advises on carnet routing, security, and counterfoil stamping, coordinates with venues and brokers, and ensures re-import without duties. For mixed loads, we separate permanent export and temporary export lines to avoid delays.

What documents do I need for UK↔EU customs clearance after Brexit?

For most shipments you’ll need a commercial invoice (or pro-forma), commodity (HS) codes, accurate values, Incoterms (e.g., DAP or DDP), EORI numbers for exporter/importer, and origin statements. We can raise or check paperwork, arrange T1 transit documents, and pre-lodge entries with partner brokers to minimise border delays. Where appropriate, we’ll advise on IPR/OPR for repair/processing and the best duty/VAT treatment.

Can you retrieve equipment from EU sites and manage the return import into the UK?

Yes. We provide EU retrievals & returns with secure transport, broker liaison, and import clearance into the UK. We reconcile serial numbers, provide chain-of-custody, and handle duty/VAT depending on origin and regime (permanent or temporary). If the gear left the UK on an ATA Carnet we’ll coordinate exit/entry stamping to avoid unexpected charges.

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Cross-Border Made Simple: UK↔EU Customs & Carnets

Export case packing, carnet paperwork, and compliant transit for time-sensitive projects.

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Customs Clearance (incl. ATA Carnets)

Since the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020, every load going out or coming back needs an entry, and we do ours in house rather than through a broker who has never met the driver. Customs clearance covers import and export declarations, ATA Carnets, T1 transits, GMRs and Port Passes. We need a Power of Attorney signed by a company official first. Where you have no EU entity we may be able to provide an exporter or importer of record. It is not cheap.

Customs Clearance (incl. ATA Carnets)

Event Transport

We have carried event kit into ExCel, The O2, Alexandra Palace, the Tower of London and a good number of fields and castles in between, and we still criss-cross Europe at a moment's notice for the ones that come up late. Vehicles run from Renault Trafics up to an 18 tonne DAF with a 2.5 tonne cantilever tail lift, all with air ride, load lok, shoring poles and blankets. Drivers work rather than watch. Import and export customs, including ATA Carnets, is handled in house.

Event Transport

Export Case Packing

Export case packing means a bespoke wooden crate built round the item rather than the item forced into a box, and it is what you need when goods are going worldwide by multi mode transport and will be handled by people you will never meet. Crates are made from certified and treated timber, any size, with screwed lids and one screwed side so the contents come out without a crowbar. Inside, polystyrene or foam inserts and anti-static bubble bags. ShockWatch and TiltWatch labels go on the outside.

Export Case Packing

Pro Audio & AV Transport

Pro audio and AV transport since 1996, for sound engineers, production and tour managers and the bands themselves. We have traversed most of the mountain ranges and sailed most of the ferry routes, from a backline delivery to the bottom of a ski slope in Davos for MTV Winterjam to an urgent mixing desk swap out in Belfort for the Eurockéennes festival. Air ride vehicles, load lok and E-track at three levels, aluminium ramps or tail lifts. We sort the carnets in house.

Pro Audio & AV Transport

Secure Transportation (UK & EU)

Secure transport, for us, means the vehicle, the driver and the handling kit all belong to Secure Transportation, so there is nobody in the chain we have not trained and nobody we cannot get hold of at two in the morning. Vehicles are plain and unsignwritten, fitted with Thatcham approved deadlocks and remote engine immobilisation, and tracked to street level anywhere in Europe. Much of our work sits under mutual NDAs. ISO 9001:2015 accredited, RHA members, registration number 012412.

Secure Transportation (UK & EU)