Importing marble and granite from Egypt to Germany

Choose the stone

Send the name your market knows the stone by, or a photograph, and we match it to the blocks we can supply. Every stone has its own page with its colour, origin, finishes and formats.

Egyptian marble · Egyptian granite · cut-to-size · floor tiles

Send what the quotation needs

The stone, the finish, the thickness and quantity of each item and your port — or the bill of quantities or the drawing as it is. The full checklist

Get the quotation

Item by item, with the number of containers: FOB Alexandria, CIF Hamburg, or DAP to site. Usually within one working day. What sets the price of Egyptian marble and granite

Pay in three stages

50 % in advance, on order; 30 % after your approval of the finished production; 20 % before shipping.

Approve the stone before it ships

Photographs of your actual slabs or bundles, or an inspection at the factory, before the 30 % is paid and before anything is loaded.

Loading the 20 ft container

About 421 m² of 2 cm granite or 429 m² of 2 cm marble per 20 ft, on a 25 t payload with packing. Every thickness

Shipping to Germany

Alexandria → Hamburg or Bremerhaven, or Koper with road haulage for the south: 14 – 21 days to Hamburg; 7 – 12 days to Koper.

Transit times are indicative port-to-port sailing times and exclude customs and inland haulage. Confirm at booking — they move with the season and the service.

Documents, duty and clearance in Germany

With every container: the commercial invoice, the packing list and the bill of lading, and a certificate of origin. Customs clearance at your end is yours or your broker's.

Finished stone sold for construction in the EU comes under the Construction Products Regulation: the importer who places it on the market draws up the Declaration of Performance under the harmonised standards, and we arrange and supply the test results for the chosen stone. German specifiers generally want more than the minimum: slip resistance classification for floors, frost resistance to EN 12371 for anything external, and flexural strength on the actual stone rather than a family range. For the stone you select we arrange water absorption, flexural strength and abrasion tests at an accredited laboratory.

Egyptian-origin stone enters the EU free of customs duty under the EU–Egypt Association Agreement, with an EUR.1 or EUR-MED certificate of origin issued by Egyptian customs. Import VAT is charged at the German rate.

Import duty on Egyptian stone, by trade agreement