Kenya verifies conformity at the port of origin. A PVoC certificate of conformity, issued by an appointed agent before the container leaves, is what gets a tyre load through Mombasa without a destination inspection and its charges. We book that inspection into the loading schedule instead of hoping it lands before the vessel.
The route is pre-export verification: the agent inspects and certifies in Qingdao. Arriving without it means a destination inspection, extra cost and a delay that eats the margin on a container of tyres.
The Import Declaration Form is raised by the importer, and the invoice has to match it — supplier, HS code, quantity and value. We issue the proforma to the wording your bank expects.
The tyres carry the conformity marking your market expects, and the label information is agreed before the first shipment so the agent's inspection is a formality rather than a negotiation.
Most Kenyan boxes move on to Nairobi or beyond, so the packing has to survive a rail or road leg after Mombasa. Blocking and lashing are specified for that, not just for the ocean.
The sizes below are the ones that move most often in this market. Each one links to the patterns we can quote in it; a size that is not listed is still worth asking about, because the library runs to several hundred and the list moves with production.
Mombasa is the port, with Nairobi as the inland depot for most of the volume. Kenya takes a solid truck block in the heavier plies and a steady passenger volume in taxi and light-truck sizes. One 20GP opens an order, and the load is built from the sizes your customers reorder.
Ports: Mombasa · Nairobi inland container depot
The importer appoints the agent; the inspection date is set against our loading date. Invoice, packing list and test reports go over a week ahead so the certificate is issued while the container is still in Qingdao.
It is charged as a percentage of the shipment value on top of the delay, which on a tyre container is more than the certificate would have cost. That is why the inspection is on the loading calendar, not on the to-do list.
Yes — a 20GP of two or three truck sizes plus a passenger block is a normal Kenyan first order. The packing list separates them so the agent's inspection is quick.
Tell us the size, the pattern reference if you have one, the quantity and the destination port. We reply within one working day with availability, container loading and price.