Shipping Dental Implants from Israel to Ukraine
Shipping dental implants from Israel to Ukraine requires attention to several key aspects: proper multimodal shipping, specialized packaging to maintain sterility and integrity, proper accompanying documentation, and customs regulations.
It is essential to ensure that transportation is carried out in accordance with the manufacturer’s storage requirements to avoid damage and loss of sterility, which is critical for medical devices.
Important Shipping Considerations:
- Sterility and Packaging:
Implants must be transported in sterile packaging that protects them from damage and contamination. It is important to maintain the integrity of this packaging at all stages of transportation.
- Temperature Requirements:
Some implants or their components may require specific temperature conditions during transportation. Please confirm these requirements with the manufacturer.
- Accompanying Documentation:
The international shipment of medical devices such as implants requires a complete set of documents, including quality certificates, instructions for use, and manufacturer information.
- Choosing a carrier:
You should select a reliable international carrier with experience in shipping medical supplies. Full cargo insurance is also essential. Solar Eagle Group has a reliable agent in Tel Aviv who will pick up your shipment, pack it according to all manufacturer requirements, and prepare export documents as quickly as possible.
- Customs compliance:
It is essential to familiarize yourself with the customs laws of Ukraine and Israel in advance to ensure proper cargo clearance and payment of required duties. Currently, medical devices, including dental implants, enjoy a duty-free import regime, meaning the customs duty is 0%. However, when importing through a limited liability company (LLC), you will pay a 20% VAT, which is refundable, plus customs brokerage services and customs storage. Therefore, it is advantageous to import dental implants to Ukraine through direct contracts between an Israeli manufacturer and a Ukrainian importing company.
- Interaction with the manufacturer:
Before shipping, it is important to obtain the manufacturer’s recommendations for transportation and storage conditions, as they may vary for different types of implants. Our agent in Israel can engage with the manufacturer, attempt to negotiate, and lower the final purchase price slightly.
- Delivery times:
Please allow for possible delays during transportation and customs clearance to avoid disrupting the timeframe required to begin treatment. Purchasing implants from Israeli manufacturers is only possible for legal entities—distributors or dental clinics. We do not sell implants to individuals. Our company ships implants from Israel, and the most optimal delivery method is multimodal transportation, including air delivery from Tel Aviv or Haifa airports to Warsaw or Vilnius airports, followed by road delivery to our temporary storage warehouse in Chelm, Poland. From Chelm, where the cargo is consolidated, the implants are brought into Ukraine by TIR truck and transported to the selected customs office, where they are cleared. Typically, it takes 20 days from the moment the implants leave the Israeli airport until they leave Ukrainian customs.