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When buying your car from USA, one thing you should never overlook is the distance between the location of the car and the closest port of exit. This is very critical because it's a major determining factor of the total cost of landing your car to Nigeria especially for those on a budget. If you don't pre-determine the distance to the closest port before buying your car, you may end up paying up to additional N900,000 ($2,500) to transport your car within the United States in a bid to get it to the port. Then you'll pay another N306,000 ($850) as ocean freight from the US port to the Nigerian port. That's a total cost of N1,206,000 ($3,350) as against a total cost that can be as low as N360,000 ($1,000) if the car is purchased at a location very close to the port. Certainly, no one will be happy with such a deal. Don't make the mistake of buying a 2005 Toyota Corolla from Alaska thinking you will get it to Nigeria at a good price. The trucking and shipping cost alone will shake your bank account without mercy.

I decided to write about this because it's one of the most popular questions we receive from our Autojosh followers. Some were even forced to ask after they had made the mistake of buying their cars from a wrong location. One bought his car in Alaska while the other bought his in Hawaii. They were excited by the cheap prices they saw on online auctions but immediately realised it was a bad idea when they received the invoices from their shipping agents after the bids had been won. The person that bought from Hawaii got an outrageous bill of about $3,700 to get his 2006 Toyota Rav4 to Lagos. They eventually returned the cars to wherever they were bought as shipping to Nigeria wouldn't have made any economic sense. Note that auction companies usually charge a fees for such returns.

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Today, we'll be looking at the location of 11 USA ports through which you can easily ship your cars to Nigeria as well as the Shipping lines that sail from those ports:

1. Baltimore, Maryland: Grimaldi and Sallaum Shipping Line

2. Boston, Massachusetts: Sallaum

3. Freeport, Texas: Sallaum

4. Galveston, Texas: Grimaldi.

5. Jacksonville, Florida: Grimaldi and Sallaum

6. Newark, New Jersey: Sallaum

7. New York (NYCT): Grimaldi

8. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Sallaum

9. Providence, Rhode Island: Grimaldi

10. Savannah, Georgia: Grimaldi

11. Wilmington, Delaware: Grimaldi

Most people prefer to ship their cars through Grimaldi as the cost of clearing cars that arrive on Sallaum can be more expensive especially in the case of more recent cars.

After you've determined the port through which your car will be shipped, the next step will be to calculate the shipping cost. Our next post will be about how to calculate the estimated cost of shipping your car from USA to Nigeria.

Is there any other port or shipping line you've shipped through recently? Tell us about it in the comment section if we don't have it on this list.

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Nice info

God. I swear I just had this question hours ago and wondered who to ask on NL

Actually, my question was 'Which states on copart and iaai should i be looking for a car in in order to reduce the shipping cost (journey to port)?

Ok

Thank you

deathwing:
Actually, my question was 'Which states on copart and iaai should i be looking for a car in in order to reduce the shipping cost (journey to port)?

Their you have it above you.

Enough JOBS dey U.S
AFRICA needs a MOSES

And they end up in just one port in Nigeria....can you see how hopeless we are in this country...

Informative.

EVILFOREST:
Enough JOBS dey U.S
AFRICA needs a MOSES

Moses can't save Africa

Orderliness


A country that works...

Interesting. Jacksonville Florida remains the best option though

Let me.bookmark this thread. Very very useful

Amongst all the above ports...pls avoid Newark and texas port...

They are time wasters

TechCapon:
Interesting. Jacksonville Florida remains the best option though

true...it's the closest to Africa

Hsnfb6666:
Prove below

If really "bet9ja" pays this guy the way he claims, he wouldn't have been killing himself typing, advertising, that others would follow suit. This is constituting pest to posts.

Mods should do something.

Good post.

martineverest:
true...it's the closest to Africa

absolutely

First thing one notices is how organized, orderly, and clean.


you can close your eyes and pick any state in america, and it's the same thing.


They also export and import more than the whole of west africa, but still orderly.


I can't say the same for nigeria. The same way america does things is how it's done in asia, europe, australia, canada, new zealand, etc.


Africa is just a cursed place even with major mineral resources. tufiakwa.

See 11 whole ports. Nigeria is still mucking around with only Apapa...

Reference:
And they end up in just one port in Nigeria....can you see how hopeless we are in this country...

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Nice information

Interesting topic