These guides exist because the questions arrive over and over, and because most of what is published about this trade is written to sell rather than to inform. Each one answers a question a real buyer asked us: whether a used engine needs SONCAP in Nigeria, which HS code a customs broker should file, what a 40-ft container of engines actually costs, how to tell a trading desk from a warehouse.
They are written by Juan Alejandro Bettiz, who runs ENGICOR, and they are dated: the regulatory ones cite the issuing authority so you can check the rule yourself rather than take our word for it. Where a regime changed after we published, the page carries an updated date.
Nothing here is gated. If a guide saves you from a bad container bought from someone else, it has done its job.
Price a container yourself
Build the mix you want in the online quoter — exactly 90 units in a 20-ft or 130 in a 40-ft — and the FOB total reaches your inbox the same minute, at our published per-unit prices, every unit Grade A. Prefer to ask? Tell us the destination country and the codes you need and we reply within one business day, usually within hours, with photos.