Guidance

List of ports using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service

Find out which locations are using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.

From:: HM Revenue & Customs
Published: 11 December 2020
Last updated: 1 June 2021 — See all updates

Locations supporting pre-lodged Customs Controls

The border locations using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service to support pre-lodged Customs Controls are:

Belfast
Larne
Warrenpoint

Locations providing Offices of Transit digitally

The border locations using Goods Vehicle Movement Service to support Offices of Transit are:

Belfast
Dover
Eurotunnel
Felixstowe (DFDS movements only)
Fishguard
Harwich (Stena movements only)
Heysham (Stena, Seatrucks movements only)
Holyhead
Immingham (DFDS movements only)
Killingholme
Larne
Liverpool (P&O, Stena, Seatrucks movements only)
Newhaven
Pembroke
Port of Cairnryan
Port of Loch Ryan
Port of Tyne (DFDS movements only)
Portsmouth (Condor Ferries movements only)
Purfleet
Warrenpoint

Locations of Common Transit UK offices

Find out the UK locations of Common Transit UK offices, including Offices of Transit, Destination and Departure.

Published 11 December 2020
Last updated 1 June 2021 + show all updates

1 June 2021
Updated list of locations providing Offices of Transit digitally.
11 December 2020
First published.

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Update history

2025-04-08 13:52
Entries for Thamesport have been added. Entries for Teesport have been amended.

2024-02-12 12:30
Entries for Birkenhead have been added. Entries for Immingham and Liverpool have been amended.

2024-01-25 14:53
Fishguard, Heysham, Holyhead and Pembroke have been added to the list of locations where you will always need to use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service when moving goods into Great Britain from outside the UK (from 31 January 2024).

2023-10-12 00:15
‘Manchester Ship Canal, if the carrier is Suardiaz’ has been added to the ‘Locations where you must use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service for some carriers’ and ‘Locations where the export declaration must be submitted as ‘pre-lodged’’ sections.

2023-08-21 10:45
Addition of DFDS as a carrier for Tilbury 2 port. Removal of Sheerness port from all sections.

2023-04-17 15:13
The list of locations where you must use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service for some carriers has been updated to include CLdN for Teesport.

2022-08-29 00:15
Plymouth, Poole and Portsmouth support pre-lodged customs controls for movements out of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) from 29 August 2022.

2021-12-15 15:09
From 1 January 2022, the border locations using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service to support pre-lodged customs controls in Northern Ireland, the locations supporting pre-lodged customs controls for movements into Great Britain, the locations supporting pre-lodged customs controls for movements out of Great Britain, and the border locations using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service to support Offices of Transit have all been updated.

2021-09-29 12:58
Aberdeen has been added to the list of locations providing Offices of Transit digitally and the entry for Immingham has been updated.

2021-06-01 00:15
Updated list of locations providing Offices of Transit digitally.