The company
Freight forwarder and international shipping agent
Auto Export Europe is based in Le Havre, France's leading container port and the natural starting point for shipping lines to the West African coast.
A freight forwarder, not a middleman
Auto Export Europe S.A.S.U is a freight forwarder and international maritime shipping agent. In practice, this means we don't just put a customer in touch with a shipping line: we organise the transport, coordinate it, and are accountable for how the file runs.
The customer deals with a single point of contact, from the moment the vehicle is picked up in Europe to its unloading at the destination African port.
Why Le Havre
Le Havre is France's leading container port and one of Northern Europe's main terminals. It's where the shipping services depart that regularly serve the African Atlantic coast, from Mauritania to South Africa.
Being based on site changes the nature of the work: receiving vehicles, coordinating with terminals and tracking departures happens directly, without a chain of intermediaries.
Vehicles and containers
The business covers two complementary flows: exporting vehicles — sedans, 4x4s, vans, oversized vehicles — and shipping full containers of goods to the same destinations.
These two flows are often combined: a vehicle loaded into a 40-foot container leaves room for personal effects, equipment or spare parts, allowing a shipment to be shared.
What we commit to telling you
Our RoRo rates are published, port by port and by vehicle category. We prefer to show a price list rather than systematically refer you to a quote: you know what to expect before you even write to us.
On the other hand, we do not publish a standard transit time. It depends on the shipping line, the port and the period, and quoting a single figure would be a convenient but false approximation. The lead time applicable to your shipment is communicated with the quote.
In the field
Our operations
Picking up the vehicle, transport to the port, loading into a container and boarding: this is the real sequence of our shipments, photographed on our own operations.
Vehicles waiting to board, RoRo vessel at berth 
Loading onto a car carrier for transport to the port 
Collecting vehicles from the customer 
40-foot container positioned before loading 
Loading: goods loaded and secured by hand 
Vehicles marked with our name in the port yard 
Storage yard before loading onto the vessel
Get in touch
Phone
+33 6 59 86 68 77Mon – Sat
WhatsApp
+33659866877Photos and documents accepted
E-mail
info@auto-export-europe.comResponse within 24–48 business hours
Free quote — no obligation
A vehicle to ship to Africa?
Send us the make, model, year and destination port. We'll respond with a quote and the most suitable shipping mode.