How often do you run between Spain and Romania?
Departures Monday and Friday (2x/week) in both directions, and it has been our home lane since 2010. The routing is the Mediterranean axis rather than the Alps: down through Italy, into Slovenia at Fernetti, across Hungary via Budapest, then into Romania at one of two crossings — Nădlac is the default — Bucharest, the south, and also Sibiu, Alba and Hunedoara — while Borș only pays off further north, for Cluj, Mureș, Maramureș and Brașov. Which one a load takes is decided by the delivery county: measured from Budapest, Timișoara sits closer behind Nădlac and Cluj-Napoca behind Borș. Secondary destinations (Iași, Constanța, Sibiu, Brașov) ride the same departures through the consolidation cycle.
Do you have offices in both Spain and Romania?
Yes, and the Romanian one is an operation rather than a sales address. Castellar del Vallès (Barcelona) runs the Spanish side — dispatch, transport documentation, ADR, customer service in Spanish. Our office in Florești (Cluj) runs the Romanian side — local dispatch, customer service in Romanian, and the final delivery into the county. That last leg is why Romania is the only destination in our published tariff whose price carries an in-country distribution line on top of the line haul: delivery to a județ is a second movement, not a drop on the trunk run.
Do you speak Romanian at dispatch?
Yes — the team is bilingual Spanish and Romanian, and on this lane that is operational rather than a courtesy. The conversations that decide whether a truck is let onto the dock happen in Romanian with your consignee: the CUI (Cod Unic de Înregistrare) that has to appear on the commercial invoice, who declares the e-Transport UIT code to ANAF before the goods enter Romanian territory, and whether the receiving site requires supplier pre-registration first. Call or write in either language; for Romanian shippers based in the UK, English works too.
What are transit times across Romania?
By delivery zone — there is no single figure for the country. The table on this page gives it cell by cell, seven Spanish collection areas against seven Romanian delivery zones, measured on real shipments, and at quote stage we give it for the exact postcode. Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara are not in the same zone. Two things move it: the unfinished A1 between Sibiu and Pitești, which costs time against a motorway-only routing, and the Hungarian weekend driving ban on the transit leg — Saturday 22:00 to Sunday 22:00 for vehicles over 7.5 t, brought forward to Saturday 15:00 in July and August, with the Euro 4 winter exemption abolished on 7 March 2026. Returns Romania → Barcelona run the same way.
Do I need customs paperwork for Spain → Romania?
No. Spain and Romania are both in the EU single market, so there is no customs declaration, no duty and no import VAT at a border — nobody stamps an entry at Nădlac, and the Hungary–Romania crossing is a tachograph stop, not a customs stop. What travels with the load is the CMR, the commercial invoice and the packing list: we issue the CMR, you supply the invoice and the list. What Romania does layer on top is declarative and fiscal rather than customs — the consignee's CUI on the invoice, the e-Transport UIT code declared to ANAF before the goods enter Romanian territory — since 2024 that covers all goods categories, not only the original high-fiscal-risk list (textiles, footwear, construction materials, iron and steel, fruit and vegetables, alcohol) —, and e-Factura for the B2B invoice itself. Our flagship corridor guide sets out who files what.
Is LTL groupage available from Spain to Romania?
2 LDM billed, or 0.4 LDM for Romania; pallets below 500 kg are accepted with the applicable minimum charge. Transit depends on the delivery zone and the table on this page gives it zone by zone. One Romanian habit to plan for: the large retail distribution centres and the automotive supplier parks — the Renault Dacia parks among them — normally require supplier pre-registration: the shipper is entered in the consignee's supplier system, receives a supplier code, and that code has to travel with the load, on the CMR or the delivery paperwork before the truck is admitted. Start it when you confirm the first shipment, not the week before delivery. The case further down this page — automotive parts groupage from the Barcelona area into the Timișoara industrial zone — is the typical shape of an account here.
How much does freight from Spain to Romania cost?
It depends on the loading metres (LDM) and weight of your shipment, the exact collection and delivery postcodes, any ADR surcharge and the BOE diesel adjustment; the online calculator gives an indicative figure on the spot and the binding written quote follows. Romania opens higher than the short EU lanes, and the reasons are structural rather than a premium: measured from our Castellar del Vallès warehouse it is the longest corridor we publish at 2,750 km (Frankfurt is 1,350); it crosses five borders (La Jonquera, Ventimiglia, Fernetti, Tornyiszentmiklós and Nădlac or Borș); and it is the only destination in our tariff whose price carries an in-country distribution leg on top of the line haul, because delivery to a județ is a second movement. LTL groupage still starts at a single pallet.
Which Romanian cities and regions do you deliver to?
The hubs are Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest and Timișoara, and LTL groupage covers the 20 județe we serve door to door. In practice the country reads in three blocks: the entry counties just behind the border — Timiș (Timișoara, Lugoj), Arad and Bihor (Oradea); the Transylvanian belt — Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Brașov, Târgu Mureș, Alba Iulia; and the south with the east — Bucharest, Ploiești, Pitești and Mioveni in Argeș, Craiova in Dolj, then Iași, Bacău, Suceava, Galați and Constanța on the coast. Mioveni is the Dacia Renault complex and Craiova the Ford plant, and the Tier 2 supplier cluster sits along the Timișoara–Arad corridor. Transit depends on the delivery zone and on your collection area in Spain, so it lives in the zone table on this page rather than as one figure per county.
Do you carry return loads from Romania to Spain?
Yes, as backhaul: space on the return leg of the scheduled Spain → Romania service, on request and subject to capacity. It is not a separate timetable. The westbound flow behind it is real, and it is what makes that space work commercially: Romanian automotive components travel west to Spanish assembly plants — wiring harnesses assembled in the Dacia supplier parks, moulded plastic parts from Transylvanian Tier 2 manufacturers, precision-machined components from Brașov and Sibiu. The Romania → Spain return-lane page explains how it is booked.
