Is your business struggling with unexpected delays, costs, and paperwork when shipping goods to the UK post-Brexit? Introducing Europa Flow Delivery Duty Paid
shipping (DDP) solution – Europa Road’s market-leading solution that cuts through the complexities, ensuring your European customers receive shipments just like they did pre-Brexit.
Traditional DAP shipping methods are no longer enough. With our Delivered Duty Paid shipping (DDP) solution, we handle all customs formalities on your behalf, eliminating the need to engage your European customers. Say goodbye to transit time nightmares and dissatisfied customers.
Our customers can access Europa Road’s services and transport update over the phone, via email and via myeuropa – our easy-to-use customer portal which allows customers to create consignments, print labels, track consignments and receive online IOD or POD information, ensuring peace of mind, every step of the way.
Our experienced and friendly Account Managers and Customer Service teams are always close-at-hand. We pride ourselves on building solid, long-term relationships with our customers, based on quality of service and value for money.
We offer a door-to-door EU-wide service designed to alleviate complicationsEuropa Road's timed collection and delivery service offers precise shipment monitoring through advanced tracking software, giving you complete visibility and control over your supply chain.
This unmatched level of oversight provides invaluable peace of mind, allowing you to streamline logistics operations and boost profitability. around customs clearance, with competitive rates and marketing-leading transit times.
Each of our 17 local branches across the UK and Ireland is linked to our state-of-the-art groupage hub in Dartford via scheduled, daily, road transport trunking that allows our customers’ shipments to connect to Europe every single day.
Collections are carried out with our own trailer fleet. Part loads are cleared via our in-house customs solutions to avoid unnecessary delays and spiralling costs.
Consignments are collected on our own vehicles and efficiently consolidated alongside other part loads, driving cost savings and boosting efficiency.
From 2026, changes to French VAT rules will affect how UK goods are imported into the EU via France. Long-standing VAT simplifications will end, increasing the compliance burden on UK exporters.
To avoid delays, penalties, and supply chain disruption, exporters will need a compliant shipping solution that manages French VAT and customs as part of the process to continue to use the Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) model.
They could if businesses continue using models that rely on VAT simplifications that are being withdrawn. Using a future-ready solution like Europa DDP Flow helps protect EU supply chains by providing a compliant DDP structure that manages VAT and duties upfront, allowing goods to continue moving without interruption.
Customs delays are often caused by incomplete data, multiple handovers, or disconnected providers. Using a single solution that integrates transport, customs and technology such as Europa Road reduces complexity, improves data accuracy, and helps shipments move more smoothly across borders.
Responsibility depends on the delivery terms used. With DAP, the receiver handles import charges and VAT. With DDP, the shipper takes responsibility. Services like Europa Flow and Europa DDP Flow are designed to enable UK businesses to manage these responsibilities clearly, reducing confusion and risk.
With DAP (Delivered at Place), the EU receiver is responsible for import VAT and duties, often leading to delays or surprise charges. With DDP (Delivered Duty Paid), these charges are handled upfront by the shipper. Europa DDP Flow provides a structured DDP solution that removes cost and administrative friction for EU customers.
Surprise charges typically occur when VAT and duties are payable on delivery. Using a Delivered Duty Paid solution such as Europa DDP Flow ensures these charges are handled upfront, so goods arrive with no unexpected fees or customs contact for the receiver.
Most commercial shipments between the UK and Europe require an EORI number for customs purposes. Europa Road can advise on what information is needed before your goods move. Beyond your EORI number, UK exporters now face additional requirements when shipping through France under DDP terms.
From January 2026, a French VAT number becomes mandatory for the importer of record. Europa's DDP Flow eliminates complexity around this new requirement.
Under Option 1, your customer's fiscal representation signature is all that's needed, no French VAT registration required.
Under Option 2, Europa handles your French VAT registration free of charge and manages ongoing filings at no cost.
Our team guides you through documentation requirements, ensuring compliance with both established EORI rules and evolving 2026 VAT regulations.
UK exporters can protect EU customers by using a shipping solution that manages customs, VAT, and duties centrally. From January 2026, DDP shipments into France must be cleared by a French VAT-registered importer.
Europa DDP Flow provides compliant DDP options that manage VAT and customs correctly, ensuring EU customers receive goods without delays or surprise charges.
Integrated solutions reduce errors, limit handovers, and improve issue resolution. By managing both elements together, Europa Flow helps businesses move goods more efficiently across UK–EU borders.
