Argonavia is an international freight forwarder and customs agent based in Ndola. We bring sea and air freight in through Dar es Salaam, Beira, Durban and Walvis Bay, run it up the SADC corridors on our own trucks, clear it, and deliver it — into the Copperbelt, the DRC and across the region.
No finger-pointing between a transporter, a broker and a clearing agent. One team, one file and one person answerable to you from pickup to release.
Commercial invoice, packing list and road manifest checked at our yard before the truck moves. The file is opened once.
Transit bond and entry lodged ahead of arrival; the boom lifts because the paperwork was right the first time.
Proof of delivery, the customs release and one itemised invoice land on the same file you started with.
Most shipments need more than one. We quote them together so you deal with one office, one invoice and one person who knows where your goods are.
FCL and LCL from China, India, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas into Dar es Salaam, Beira, Durban and Walvis Bay, booked and tracked through our partner agents.
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Urgent parts, samples and high-value cargo by air into Lusaka, Ndola and Johannesburg, cleared and delivered by road to site.
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Full loads and part loads on the main SADC corridors, run on our own trucks and vetted partner carriers.
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Import, export and removal-in-transit entries on ASYCUDA World, plus customs bonds and guarantees for bonded movement.
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Covered storage in Ndola for consolidation, cross-docking and onward dispatch, run on the same file as the freight and the entry.
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Oversized, heavy and multi-leg shipments for mines, plants and construction sites — planned from origin port to the last kilometre.
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The same consignment record follows your cargo from the first email to the delivery note, and the same person answers for every step.
Send the invoice and packing list; one sheet comes back with freight, bond and clearing.
Our truck or a vetted partner loads at origin; documents are checked before it moves.
Transit bond and border paperwork lodged ahead of arrival; live updates at each post.
Entry lodged on ASYCUDA, duties advised, release chased in person if it stalls.
Proof of delivery, final invoice and the full document set on one file.
We started because our own trucks kept losing days at the border. The fixes we made for ourselves are the service we now sell.
Our office sits in Ndola's Heavy Industrial Area, ninety minutes from Kasumbalesa. When a truck is held, someone drives out.
We run our own trucks on the Copperbelt corridors, so the capacity we quote is capacity we can see, not a promise passed down a chain of brokers.
Transport, bond and clearance are arranged against the same consignment record, so the paperwork and the entry never disagree.
The person who quotes your shipment is the person who tracks it and clears it. No handoffs, no call centre.
Loading, departure, each border crossing and delivery — sent to you as they happen, not when you chase.
Freight, bond, duties and clearing on one document, so finance sees the true landed cost of every load.
When a truck is held, our operations desk escalates and, if it takes it, a person goes to the post.
Sea and air freight is booked through our partner agents at origin, lands at the gateway port that suits the cargo, and from there it is on our own trucks, our own customs file and our own people to the door.
Sea and air legs are arranged with licensed partner agents at origin; the road, customs and delivery legs in Southern Africa are ours. One file, one invoice, one contact from origin to door.
Pick a gateway and a destination. You get the usual road time, the border used and the paperwork we prepare with you — then send it to us for an exact quote.
Times are typical for our own trucks on that lane, not a guarantee. Ask for the exact quote and we confirm the schedule against the current border situation.
Get the exact quote for this laneThe short answers. For anything specific to your cargo, email us and the person who replies is the person who will handle it.
What is moving, its weight and dimensions, where it is collected, where it is delivered, and when it needs to be there. If you already have a commercial invoice and packing list, send those and we take the rest from them.
Yes. Transport, warehousing, transit bond and the customs declaration are arranged against the same consignment file, so the truck, the paperwork and the entry never disagree.
Sea freight from China, India, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas through Dar es Salaam, Beira, Durban and Walvis Bay; air freight into Lusaka, Ndola and Johannesburg. By road: Kasumbalesa into the DRC, Nakonde to Tanzania and Dar es Salaam, Chirundu to Zimbabwe and on to South Africa, Kazungula to Botswana, Mwami to Malawi and Katima Mulilo to Namibia and on to Walvis Bay. Ports and cities we run to: Dar es Salaam, Beira, Maputo, Durban, Johannesburg, Walvis Bay, Lubumbashi, Likasi and Kolwezi. Ndola is the hub.
Yes. Our operations desk sends position and border-crossing updates while your cargo is in transit, and is reachable outside office hours for trucks on the road.
Yes. We arrange customs bonds and bank guarantees for bonded warehousing and removal-in-transit movements, and we lodge the RIT and T1 entries against them.
No call centre, no runaround. Send the shipment details and an experienced person replies with one quote for freight and clearing.
Email the commercial invoice and packing list, or just tell us what is moving, from where, to where and when. Quotes for freight and clearing come back on one sheet, usually within one working day.
Office hours Monday–Friday 08:00–17:00, Saturday 08:00–13:00 (CAT). Operations desk reachable outside hours for trucks in transit.