Saudi Express is a shipping company from Dammam to Morocco that ships household furniture, final-return belongings, cars and goods by sea in containers, shipped from King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam or via Jeddah Islamic Port, depending on the shipping line, to Tanger Med or Casablanca, from where we deliver to Rabat, Fez, Meknes, Marrakesh, Agadir, Oujda, Nador and other cities. A sea shipment usually takes four to six weeks from collection in Dammam, and air freight three to five days. A small parcel starts from SAR 370, a complete bedroom from SAR 3,240 and a 20-foot container from SAR 5,550. Speak to us by phone or WhatsApp on 0560533140.
- Method: sea container from Dammam port or via Jeddah Islamic Port
- Arrival ports: Tanger Med and Casablanca
- Timing: 4 to 6 weeks by sea, 3 to 5 days by air
- Containers: 20-foot from SAR 5,550, 40-foot from SAR 7,400, shared from SAR 790 per CBM
- Final return: change-of-residence certificate and detailed inventory; up to two consignments within 6 months
- Cars: permanent import generally for cars under 5 years old
The Moroccan community in the Eastern Province is large, and most people who ask us about shipping to Morocco are heading home for good after years of work in Dammam, Al Khobar or Jubail, or moving as a family. Shipping to Morocco is a long sea voyage that needs careful marine packing, specific Moroccan papers, above all the change-of-residence certificate, and an understanding of car import rules. We choose the loading port, Dammam or Jeddah, according to the shipping line that offers the best sailing date. This guide explains each step clearly.
Shipping Prices from Dammam to Morocco
Shipping prices from Dammam to Morocco start from SAR 370 for a small parcel, SAR 650 for ten cartons of clothes, SAR 3,240 for a complete bedroom, SAR 5,550 for a 20-foot container, SAR 7,400 for a 40-foot container and SAR 6,980 to ship a car by vessel.
You can ship to Morocco in two ways: book a full container for your belongings alone, the natural choice for a whole household or a household plus a vehicle, or ship specific pieces in a shared container and pay by volume. Because many returning families ask the price of each piece to decide what to take and what to sell, we list starting prices for the most-shipped items alongside container prices.
Starting prices from Dammam to Morocco:
| Service | Details | Starts from (SAR) |
|---|---|---|
| Small parcel | Up to 5 kg | 370 |
| Documents and papers | Up to 10 kg | 465 |
| Ten cartons of clothes | Sealed and numbered | 650 |
| 50-inch TV | Padded packing | 830 |
| Wooden desk | Marine packing | 830 |
| Wall-mounted AC | Removed and packed | 925 |
| Automatic washer | Drum locked and packed | 1,110 |
| Large fridge | Shock- and moisture-proof packing | 1,670 |
| Dining table with 6 chairs | Dismantled and packed | 1,850 |
| Five-piece living-room set | Fabric wrapped | 2,590 |
| Complete bedroom | Bed, wardrobe and dresser, packed and shipped by sea | 3,240 |
| Shared container | Per cubic metre | 790 per CBM |
| 20-foot container | One client | 5,550 |
| 40-foot container | One client | 7,400 |
| Sedan car | By vessel | 6,980 |
A Full Container or Pieces in a Shared One?
If you are returning for good with a complete home, a full container is usually cheaper than shipping pieces one by one, since the per-piece total quickly exceeds the container price. If you are only taking the bedroom, some appliances and cartons, a shared container is enough. A 20-foot container roughly fits a two-to-three-bedroom flat, and a 40-foot one a bigger house, or a house together with a car. We send the comparison once we see photos of your rooms.
How Does the Container Get from Dammam to Morocco?
The container is loaded at your Dammam home and sealed, then sails from King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam or is trucked to Jeddah Islamic Port depending on the shipping line, and passes through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean to Tanger Med or Casablanca port.
A sailing from Dammam passes the Strait of Hormuz and goes around the Arabian Peninsula, while leaving from Jeddah shortens the voyage to the Suez Canal in exchange for a road leg inside the Kingdom, so we compare both options on every booking and pick the better one for timing and cost. Sailing from Jeddah means the vessel heads straight north via Suez into the Mediterranean, so the voyage is shorter. You choose the arrival port by city: Tanger Med suits Tangier, Tetouan, the north, Fez and Meknes, while Casablanca suits Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakesh and the south.
| Arrival port | Nearest cities | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tanger Med | Tangier, Tetouan, Al Hoceima, Nador, Fez and Meknes | Busy during the summer return season of Moroccans abroad |
| Casablanca | Casablanca, Rabat, Sale, Kenitra, Marrakesh and El Jadida | Closest to central Morocco |
How Long Does Shipping from Dammam to Morocco Take?
Door to door, a sea shipment from Dammam to Morocco normally needs four to six weeks, while air cargo lands at Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca within three to five days.
Several legs make up the sea time: wrapping and loading at home, a two-to-three-day drive to Jeddah, a wait for the next sailing, the passage itself, which may include transhipment at a Mediterranean hub, then clearance in Morocco and inland delivery. A shared container may wait a few days to fill. In summer Tanger Med gets crowded with Moroccans returning from abroad, so we advise shipping well before the season.
| Moroccan city | Typical sea time from Dammam | Port we normally use |
|---|---|---|
| Tangier and Tetouan | 4 to 5 weeks | Tanger Med |
| Casablanca and Rabat | 4 to 5 weeks | Casablanca |
| Fez and Meknes | 4 to 6 weeks | Tanger Med |
| Marrakesh and Agadir | 5 to 6 weeks | Casablanca, then road |
| Oujda and Nador | 5 to 6 weeks | Tanger Med, then road |
| Laayoune and the south | 5 to 6 weeks | As arranged at booking |
Final-Return Papers for Morocco
A Moroccan returning for good from Dammam needs a change-of-residence certificate from the Moroccan consulate, a detailed inventory in Arabic or French and a passport or national ID card, and is usually allowed one family move in at most two consignments within six months.
The change-of-residence certificate is the key document proving you lived abroad and are returning to settle, and it is issued by the Moroccan consulate. With it you need a detailed inventory of all belongings, stating the type and quantity of each item, which must be used and for personal use. Moroccan rules usually allow one appliance of each type among personal effects, so you cannot ship two fridges or two washers within the exemption. Belongings go in one or two consignments within six months of the change of residence.
- Change-of-residence certificate from the Moroccan consulate.
- A detailed inventory in Arabic or French.
- A copy of the Moroccan passport or national ID card.
- Proof of residence in the Kingdom, such as the iqama and an employment certificate.
- An authorisation for the customs broker in Morocco.
- In the Kingdom: a copy of your ID or iqama with a Fasah export approval.
If belongings miss the six-month window, or arrive as a third consignment, they may not be treated as return belongings and can be charged like any goods. We therefore plan with the family for the main container to leave early with all furniture and appliances, keeping the second consignment only for what remains, such as the clothes of a family member staying behind to finish work or school. Keep a copy of the first inventory, as customs may ask to compare the second consignment against it.
Request the change-of-residence certificate from the Moroccan consulate before cancelling your iqama, and keep its date close to your shipping date so you do not miss the six-month window.
Car Shipping from Dammam to Morocco
Shipping a car from Dammam to Morocco starts from SAR 6,980 by vessel via Jeddah, and the general Moroccan rule is that permanent import applies to cars under five years old, with exceptions and reductions for some returnees on conditions.
Moroccans living abroad have two options: temporary admission of the car on its foreign plates for a set period each year during holidays, after which it must leave, or permanent import on final return, where the age rule, customs duty and tax apply. Substantial duty reductions may be granted to some retirees returning after a long stay abroad, under specific conditions. Because these details vary from case to case, review your situation with a broker in Morocco before shipping the car; selling it in the Kingdom may make more sense.
Should you go ahead, our team sorts out the traffic export papers, export plates and a clean violations record, then sends the car strapped in a container or on a car-carrier vessel, depending on availability.
Air Freight from Dammam to Morocco
Air freight from Dammam to Morocco usually reaches Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca in three to five days, mostly via a transfer hub, and suits documents, small parcels and electronics.
With sea transit taking weeks, many returning families fly what they need in the first weeks: school papers, certificates, computers and some clothes. Air is charged on actual or volumetric weight, whichever is greater, where volumetric weight is length times width times height in centimetres divided by 6000. Large light items such as pillows and toys therefore stay in the container, and air is for small, valuable or urgent things.
Shipping Methods from Dammam to Morocco
The main method from Dammam to Morocco is sea freight by container from Dammam or via Jeddah, supported by air freight for urgent items; there is no practical land route to Morocco.
Full Container
Booked for you alone, loaded and sealed at your home and opened only by Moroccan customs. It suits a final return with a complete home and anyone shipping a car with their furniture.
Shared Container
It combines several families’ belongings bound for Morocco, priced per cubic metre. It suits a room or a few pieces and cartons, though it sails only once filled, and goods are separated at the destination.
Marine Packing for the Dammam to Morocco Voyage
We pack Morocco-bound furniture to marine standard to protect it from moisture and impact over weeks at sea, and load the container so nothing can move.
The container faces the long road to Jeddah, then cranes, then the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, and may be moved between two vessels. So we wrap wood in corrugated cardboard first and plastic second, put glass, mirrors and marble in wooden crates, drain the fridge and washer completely and hang moisture absorbers inside. The load is raised off the container floor on boards and gaps are filled so pieces cannot shift even as the ship moves.
Summer and Operation Marhaba: When Should You Ship to Morocco?
It is better for your container to reach Morocco before or after the summer peak, because northern ports get crowded in the months when Moroccans abroad return home, and unloading and clearance take longer.
Every summer Moroccan ports, especially Tanger Med, receive large numbers of Moroccans coming home for the holidays under what is known as Operation Marhaba, with a matching rise in truck and container traffic. Shipping does not stop, but procedures can take longer and inland delivery slots are harder to book. We therefore advise families returning for good to schedule the container in spring or autumn if they can, and to arrive a few days before it so they can receive it at home. If shipping in summer cannot be avoided, Casablanca may suit people living in the centre and south better than Tangier.
Appliances in Morocco: Voltage and Plugs
Morocco runs on 220 volts at 50 hertz, so most Saudi appliances work there, but Moroccan sockets are the European two-round-pin type, so you will need adapters or new plugs.
Many returning families overlook this small point and discover in the new home that the fridge, washer and AC plugs do not fit the sockets. The fix is simple: buy enough adapters before you travel, or have an electrician in Morocco change the plugs. For the voyage, we drain the fridge and washer completely because the trip is long, pack each appliance in its own padded carton marked with its name and which way is up, and bag the cables of TVs and small devices with numbers matching their units.
Storage in Dammam Before the Container
We offer temporary storage in Dammam for Moroccan families who hand back their home before the container date, or who are waiting for the change-of-residence certificate.
Dates often clash in the last weeks before going home: the lease ends, the consulate certificate is delayed and the sailing date does not fit. We then pack the furniture fully to marine standard, keep it numbered in a closed warehouse and load it into the container once the papers are complete and the sailing is set, so the family does not have to extend the lease or rush the papers.
Prohibited Items When Shipping to Morocco
Moroccan customs turn away firearms, drugs, flammables and fake branded goods, require a licence for medicines, drones and transmitters, and treat repeated new appliances in household goods as merchandise.
- Guns of any kind, their rounds and explosives.
- Drugs, and monitored medicine with no doctor’s prescription.
- Gas bottles, fuel and chemical substances.
- Unlicensed transmitters and drones.
- Items bearing fake trademarks.
- More than one appliance of the same type within exempt return belongings.
New boxed appliances and duplicates of the same device are treated as goods by Moroccan customs, so do not include them in your return belongings.
Moroccan Cities We Deliver To
We deliver from Dammam to every Moroccan city, from Tangier and Tetouan in the north to Agadir and Laayoune in the south.
Where in the Eastern Province Do We Load Morocco Containers?
Morocco containers are loaded in any neighbourhood of Dammam, Al Khobar or Dhahran, and in Qatif, Saihat, Jubail and Al-Ahsa, with the truck parked at your door whenever the street is wide enough.
Our Dammam jobs cover Al Safa, Al Athir, Badr, Al Qazaz, Al Dawasir, Al Hamra, Al Manar, Al Shati, Al Faisaliyah, King Fahd Suburb and Al Aziziyah; Al Khobar jobs cover Al Aqrabiyah, Al Thuqbah, Al Olaya, Al Rakah and Al Jisr; Dhahran jobs cover Al Qusur and Al Doha. Where streets cannot take a container truck, we move the furniture in a smaller truck to a nearby loading point. We schedule collection in the days before final exit and split the work over two days if needed.
Commercial Freight from Dammam to Morocco
We ship commercial goods from Dammam to Morocco in full or shared containers via Jeddah, with shared space from SAR 790 per cubic metre, preparing the invoice, certificate of origin and bill of lading.
Among the most common trade shipments from the Eastern Province to Morocco are dates, packaged food, plastic products, perfumes and incense. Each consignment travels with an invoice, a contents list and proof of origin, and some products also need a Moroccan health or conformity certificate. Export formalities are done here, then a licensed broker at the Moroccan port takes the file through release and delivery.
Parcels and Cartons from Dammam to Morocco
A small parcel up to 5 kg starts from SAR 370 and ten cartons of clothes from SAR 650, shipped in a shared container or by air when urgent.
Moroccans in the Eastern Province send clothes, gifts, perfumes and dates to family, especially before Ramadan, Eid and summer. Small urgent parcels go by air, while many cartons go in the shared container because it is far cheaper. We mark each carton with the recipient’s name, Moroccan number and city and record it on the list. Please avoid liquids, home-cooked food and large amounts of medicine.
Steps to Ship from Dammam to Morocco
The steps start with photos of your home and end with your belongings delivered in your Moroccan city.
- We receive pictures of your home and the name of your Moroccan city.
- We estimate the cubic metres, settle the container type and port, then send cost and dates.
- You obtain the change-of-residence certificate and prepare the inventory and papers.
- Our crew wraps everything with marine materials, loads it and locks the seal in front of you.
- The box sails from Dammam or via Jeddah aboard a vessel for Tanger Med or Casablanca.
- We arrange clearance in Morocco, then delivery to your home and unloading.
Tips for Families Returning from Dammam to Morocco
The key tip for a returning family is to start at least a month before final exit, so the change-of-residence certificate and inventory are complete before the container date.
- Do not ship more than one appliance of each type within return belongings.
- Write the inventory in detail in Arabic or French.
- Work out the car’s cost in Morocco before deciding to ship it.
- Avoid the summer peak at Tanger Med if you can.
- Send important papers and small devices by air.
- Keep a copy of every paper on your phone.
To compare routes, read shipping from Saudi Arabia to Morocco and shipping from Riyadh to Morocco; for a Libya consignment as well, see shipping from Dammam to Libya. Our shipping to Morocco page and the pages on car shipping, sea freight and air freight give the full service details.
