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Supplying construction materials to Uganda

Uganda has no port. Your container clears at Mombasa or Dar es Salaam and then travels by road, which means the paperwork is checked more than once.

What Uganda asks for

Uganda runs a PVoC scheme under the Uganda National Bureau of Standards. Goods are inspected and tested before loading in India and a Certificate of Conformity is issued. Because Uganda is landlocked, that certificate is also relied on during transit through Kenya or Tanzania, so errors are caught more than once.

Four steps: order placed, testing before loading, certificate issued, goods clear customs
How a pre-shipment Certificate of Conformity is earned. It is issued before the container leaves India.

The paperwork in one table

What the scheme is calledPVoC (Pre-Export Verification of Conformity)
Who runs itUganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS)
What you receiveA Certificate of Conformity (CoC)
When it is issuedBefore the goods are loaded, in India
Route inMombasa or Dar es Salaam, then by road

What this means for your order

Build in the road leg

Sea transit is only part of it. The inland run adds real days. Plan the site date around the full journey.

One error, two stops

A mismatch between the certificate and the invoice can be raised at the port and again at the border.

Pack for the road

The inland leg is harder on packaging than the sea leg. Say so at the order stage.

What we supply into Uganda

Tell us what you need for Uganda or see every market we ship to.

Other markets we ship to

AfricaKenya · Ghana · Nigeria · Tanzania · Uganda · Côte d'Ivoire · South Africa · Africa

Europe and the UKUnited Kingdom · Germany · Netherlands · Belgium · Poland · Ireland · Europe

AmericasUnited States · Americas

Notes that apply to Uganda