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SEA FREIGHT TO TONGA
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Welcome to CargoMaster, are you thinking of Shipping to Tonga. Our high performance team of Tonga sea freight service specialists offer many years’ experience shipping containers to Samoa and surrounding islands. CargoMaster is one of Australia’s most trusted shipping companies to the Pacific Islands.
ABOUT TONGA:
Tonga, officially known as the Kingdom Of Tonga, is located approx 1800 kilometers from New Zealand’s North Island. Tonga is surrounded by Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia, the island nation has has a small population of approx 110,000 people. Tonga is a Polynesian country, consisting of about 170 Islands only about 60 are inhabited. Tonga is renowned for its white sandy beaches, palm trees and emerald blue seas. Tonga’s major exports is sugar cane, Tonga is a popular holiday destination for Australians and New Zealanders. Many Tongans now live in Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
In the Polynesian language “tonga” means “southward” and as such Tonga is well named being the the southern most group of islands among the islands of Polynesia.
Tonga was first known as the “Friendly Islands” due to the congenial welcome accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773.
The largest city in Tonga is Nuku’alofa , it is also the capital of Tonga. It is located on the north coast of the island of Tongatapu, in the country’s southernmost island group. There is a university located in Nuku’alofa, Kings International University, well know for studies in Theology, The Sciences and Literature. The port of Nuku’alofa is also located in Nuku’alofa, it is a Deepwater port capable of handling most commercial container vessels.
SHIPPING TO TONGA
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SHIPPING TIMES FROM AUSTRALIA TO TONGA
- Sydney to Nuku’alofa: 28 Days
- Melbourne to Nuku’alofa: 30 Days
- Brisbane to Nuku’alofa: 26 Days
- Fremantle (Perth) to Nuku’alofa: 32 Days
- Adelaide to Nuku’alofa: 33 Days
- Hobart/Launceston to Nuku’alofa: 32 Days
- Townsville to Nuku’alofa: 22 Days
- Darwin to Nuku’alofa: 31 Days
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SHIPPING TO TONGA
Prohibited and Restricted Imports
- Base or counterfeit or imitation currency or bank note or fictitious postage or revenue stamps of any country and any dye, plate, instrument, or materials capable of making any such coin, currency or bank note or any such revenue or postage stamps.
- Counterfeit goods
- Indecent or obscene books, painting, drawings, cards, lithographic or other engravings, photographs, prints, films, or other indecent products which depict child pornography.
- Goods bearing the royal Arms of the Kingdom or arms so closely resembling such arms as to be calculated to deceive unless the importer of such goods hold His Majesty E28099s written authority to use them in connection with his trade, business, calling or profession.
- All books and any written or printed matter and sounds and visual recordings of which the Minister shall by notice declare to be prohibited imports on account of any copyright or intellectual property right laws which apply in the Kingdom.
- All books and any written or printed matter and sound and visual recordings which the Minister shall by notice declare to be seditious or which advocate violence, lawlessness or disorder.
- All toxic or hazardous wastes.
- Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in the Kingdom.
List of Restricted Imports
- Firearms and ammunition except with a licence issued in accordance with the law.
- Explosives or all kinds including fuses and detonators except with a licence issued in accordance with the law.
- Noxious, stupefying or tear gas in any form and all weapons and instruments of appliances for firing or using such gases and gas containers or cartridges for such weapons or other instruments for appliances except in accordance with the law.
- The amount of $10,000 paanga (or equivalent) or more in cash.
- Goods the importation of which is restricted by any other law in force in the Kingdom except in accordance with such law.
Application for Customs Identification Number
If you are importing or exporting personal effects (non-commercial in nature), you must first apply for a Customs Identification Number (CIN) in the approved form before you can process your import/export documents.
You may download the CIN apllication form from the following link
Please download Private CIN Application form.
If you already have a Tax Identification Number (TIN) you should use your TIN for all your Customs transactions.
In the case of goods imported or exported for commercial purposes, the importer or exporter, as the case may be, must provide Customs with the valid business or company Tax Identification Number.
For the commodities below you should check to see if you will NEED A PERMIT:
- ivory in any form, including jewelry, and carvings
- tortoise or sea turtle shell jewelry, and ornaments
- meat or food derived from whales, dolphins, rare crane, and pheasants, or sea turtles
- medicines containing musk, or rhinoceros or tiger derivatives such as ground horn or bone
- carvings or other things made from whalebone or bone from other marine mammals
- cat skins
- trophies of sea turtles, all big cats, rare reptiles, cranes, pheasants, bears, antelope, and deer
- live species, including pet eagles, hawks, owls and parrots, many cacti, orchids, cycads, and cyclamens
- carnivorous plants.
You may not be able to bring some medicines into Tonga, especially controlled drugs. This includes medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Remember heavy fines and possibility of imprisonment for non compliance
Prescription medication in most cases is acceptable, if you can present a valid doctors prescription .
If you’re returning to Tonga, or are immigrant after 21 months or more overseas, you may be entitled to concessions on vehicles and boats, motor cycles that either accompany you or are transported separately.
Bringing Motor Vehicles And Boats Into TONGA:
You may be able to claim “household items” concession if:
- you’re relocating , or moving back to the motherland after 21 months or more away, and
- you have been using the items for their intended purpose.
You can also claim concessions on:
- private vehicles, including:
- motorcycles
- cars
- scooters
- motorhomes
- camper vans
- ambulances
- boats and
- aircraft.
You can import no more than one vehicle, boat duty-free, if you meet the Concessionary Requirements.
As a condition of the concession you will be required to sign an Undertaking that you will not sell or dispose of the vehicle, boat or plane within two years.
If you sell your vehicle, boat or plane within two years of bringing it into duty-free, you must pay Customs duty on a pro rata basis.
Ownership Rules:
You will need to qualify for a concession, which means you will need to meet the requirement to have “personally owned” the vehicle for at least 12 months prior to your departure from Australia u will have to meet a requirement to have personally owned and used the vehicle, boat or plane for at least 1 year before your departure , or surrendering the vehicle for shipping.
The phrase personally owned means includes vehicles and boats leased by the importer, and vehicles, boats purchased under a hire purchase contract or agreement, provided that in both instances the terms of the lease or the hire purchase agreement/ contract have been meet with in full by the importer prior to their importation.
Vehicles, boats owned and registered by a company cannot be entered under the concession as the requirement to have personally owned the vehicle, boat or plane cannot be met, as a company is a separate entity.
Documentation will be evidence will need to be produced to support your claim of meeting this requirement. These documents may include:
- receipts showing purchase and delivery dates
- registration and insurance papers
- evidence when the vehicle, boat or plane was surrendered for shipping .
“What if I don’t qualify for concessions”
You will have to pay Duty.
MORE ABOUT CONCESSIONS AND EXEMPTIONS
SHIPPING CONTAINER DIMENSIONS
20 ft Standard Dry (8’6″ x 8′ x 20′)
Weight: 4500lbs
Max Gross Weight: 66,139lbs
Interior Dimensions:
Length: 19′ 5″
Width: 7′ 8-⅛”
Height: 7′ 9-⅝”
Door Opening:
Width: 7’ 8-½”
Height: 7’ 5-¾”
40 ft Standard Dry (8’6″ x 8′ x 40′)
Weight: 8500lbs
Max Gross Weight: 66,139lbs
Interior Dimensions:
Length: 39′ ⅜”
Width: 7′ 8-⅛”
Height: 7′ 9-⅝”
Door Opening:
Width: 7’ 8-½”
Height: 7’ 5-¾”
40 ft High Cube (9’6″ x 8′ x 40′)
Weight: 8750 lbs
Max Gross Weight: 68,008lb
Interior Dimensions:
Length: 39′ 4”
Width: 7′ 7”
Height: 8′ 9″
Door Opening:
Width: 7’ 8″‘
Height: 8’ 5”
BREAK BULK
OUT OF GUAGE AND PROJECT SHIPPING
TONGA
CargoMaster offers weekly services for break bulk shipping and shipping large items overseas. These types of services vary greatly between shipment , this area of international shipping should be left to only a few true Australian heavy shipping specialists with many years’ experience (like CargoMaster with 35 years transportation experience) Once again, you need to be very careful when choosing a international freight forwarders to handle the shipping of heavy items overseas this is a specialised transportation mode .choosing the wrong freight forwarder could be devastating and cost you heaps of money (there are plenty of stories of freight forwarders failing when it comes to shipping heavy machinery overseas.! The bottom line is Call CargoMaster if you need to ship heavy equipment from Sydney!
Dimensions of 20ft flat rack container
| Internal length | 5.94 m / 19.5 ft |
| Internal width | 2.35 m / 7.7 ft |
| Internal height | 2.35 m / 7.7 ft |
| Tare weight | 2,360 kg / 5,203.8 lbs |
| Payload capacity | 30,140 kg / 66,458.7 lbs |
| Cubic capacity | 32.7 m³ / 1,154.3 cu ft |
Dimensions of 40ft flat rack container
| Internal length | 12.13 m / 39.8 ft |
| Internal width | 2.40 m / 7.9 ft |
| Internal height | 2.14 m / 7 ft |
| Tare weight | 5,000 kg / 11,025 lbs |
| Payload capacity | 40,000 kg / 88,200 lbs |
| Cubic capacity | 62.2 m³ / 2,195.7 cu ft |
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