Air freight to Gambia from the United Kingdom is handled end to end by our own air desk: full-service air cargo and logistics, pallet delivery, road freight, excess baggage, consolidated airfreight and project cargo. We are based at London Heathrow with daily uplift, and also load from Manchester, East Midlands, Stansted and Gatwick. Services run airport to airport, door to airport and door to door subject to clearance, with a typical transit of 3-5 days into Banjul depending on flight times and screening.
Gambia has 1 airports recorded in total and we can route cargo to any of them that accepts commercial freight, working principally through Banjul (BJL) and trucking inland from the gateway where the consignee sits away from the airport. If you are a passenger with more luggage than the airline will take, our unaccompanied baggage service to Gambia moves boxes and cases at a fraction of excess baggage rates.
Air Freight Rates: UK to Gambia
Get a firm rate- Cargo under 100kg
- £4.65, £7.55 per kgPer chargeable kilo on consolidated services, minimum charge applies
- Cargo over 100kg
- £2.80, £4.55 per kgPer chargeable kilo, with further steps at 300kg, 500kg and 1,000kg
- Airline charges
- £121, £204Fuel and security surcharge, air waybill fee and terminal handling
- UK export entry & screening
- £45 + £0.16 per kgCustoms declaration plus Regulated Agent security screening
- Airport handling in Gambia
- payable at destinationTerminal handling, storage after free time and local clearance fees
- Transit time
- 3-5 daysAirport to airport into Banjul
Indicative figures for planning only. Chargeable weight is the greater of actual weight and volume ÷ 6,000. Rates to Gambia move with fuel, capacity and season, we confirm a firm all-in figure with your quote.
Air cargo shipment to Gambia: how the process works
Rates quoted on this page cover carriage to the airport in Gambia and do not include arrival charges such as terminal handling, documentation, customs clearance, examination, quarantine or inspection, import duties, taxes or storage after free time. Those are set locally, and we show them as estimates on the quotation so the landed cost you compare is the real one.
- Contact us
- Send the weight and the length, width and height of every piece going to Gambia, plus the commodity.
- Weight
- Consolidated air cargo to Gambia starts at 45kg chargeable with no upper limit; smaller pieces go on our express service.
- Collection
- Same-day and next-day collection across the UK, or drop the cargo at our Heathrow-area facility.
- Screening and build
- Security screening at our Regulated Agent facility, then build-up and manifesting to the booked flight.
- Flight and clearance
- Uplift to Banjul with the air waybill shared for tracking, then customs clearance and delivery by our agent in Gambia.
Air freight services to Gambia
- Door to door delivery with clearance and final-mile in the destination country
- Door to airport freight logistics for consignees who prefer to clear locally
- Third-party and cross-trade shipping on your account or ours
- Temperature-controlled transportation for pharma, perishables and cool chain
- Dangerous goods packing and declaration to IATA rules, batteries, chemicals, aerosols, paints
- Commercial export packing, palletising, crating and labelling
- Excess and unaccompanied baggage carrying services to Gambia
Low-cost commercial air freight to Gambia
We hold competitive commercial air freight rates to Gambia through direct contracts with the carriers serving Banjul, with daily departures from Heathrow and same-day or next-day collection anywhere in the UK. That combination is what gets urgent commercial cargo onto a flight the day it is released rather than the day after. Full tracking against the air waybill runs from collection to delivery, so you can see where the consignment is while it is still on the road.
- UK-wide collection
- Same-day and next-day collection from any address, auction, factory or warehouse.
- Export packing
- Palletising, crating, shrink-wrapping and dangerous goods packing to airline standards.
- Documentation
- Export customs entries, consular and legalised paperwork, certificates of origin.
- Security
- Pre-flight screening at our Regulated Agent facility and delivery direct to the airline.
- Carrier access
- Contracted capacity with the main carriers serving Banjul and the wider Africa network.
- Destination
- Customs clearance and delivery in Gambia handled by our nominated agent.
Personal air freight and excess baggage to Gambia
We are as comfortable moving a student's boxes as a pallet of machine spares. For personal air freight to Gambia, a few extra cases, a family's effects, a motorbike or a small vehicle, we supply free boxes, bubble wrap and packing tape anywhere in the UK, and our packing crews can wrap furniture at your home and take it to the airport for you. On arrival our agent in Gambia handles clearance and delivery to your new address, or you can take the cheaper door-to-airport option and collect the goods from the terminal yourself. Wooden transit cases are made to size for fragile and high-value items.
Consolidated airfreight to Gambia
Our consolidated airfreight service to Gambia is often cheaper than buying direct from the airline and, on small shipments, competitive with sea freight once handling and clearance are counted. Your cargo travels with other clients' freight on a single master air waybill to our partner in Gambia, which cuts the per-kilo rate and reduces the number of separate clearances. With departures at least twice a week, the day or two added in consolidation is usually offset by the saving against carrier rates.
Air cargo collection across the UK for Gambia
As an international freight forwarder we collect air cargo and personal effects bound for Gambia from Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London (North, East, South and West), Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton, Swindon, Kingston upon Hull. Give us the weights and measurements and we will quote a per-kilo or all-in figure; if you only need airport-to-airport carriage we will price that too, and tell you plainly which option lands cheaper once handling at Banjul is included.
Which airports in Gambia we fly into
Of the 1 airports in Gambia, commercial cargo is concentrated on a handful of gateways with bonded terminals and customs presence. We normally route through Banjul (BJL), then truck inland where the final delivery point sits away from the airport. If your consignee is closer to a regional field, tell us the town and we will price the nearest viable option.
Documentation for air shipments to Gambia
A clean clearance in Gambia depends on the paperwork matching the cargo exactly. We prepare and check the full set before departure:
- Commercial invoice showing values, Incoterm and full consignee details
- Packing list agreeing piece for piece with the invoice
- Air waybill issued by us or the carrier
- Certificate of origin where Gambia requires it for duty purposes
- Licences, health or phytosanitary certificates for controlled goods
- Personal effects declaration and inventory for unaccompanied baggage
How the rate to Gambia is built
An air freight price is never a single number. It starts with the chargeable weight, the greater of the scale weight and the volume of each piece divided by 6,000, then adds the airline's fuel and security surcharges, the air waybill fee, terminal handling at the UK gateway and screening at our Regulated Agent facility. Collection, export customs and any licences sit alongside it, and clearance and delivery in Gambia complete the landed cost. We quote all of it together so you can compare like with like.
Because the per-kilo rate steps down as consignments get heavier, the way cargo is packed often changes the price more than the routing does. Reducing a pallet by ten centimetres in height can drop it into a lower volumetric band; splitting a consignment across two flights can push both halves into a higher one. Send us the piece dimensions before you build the pallets and we will tell you which shape is cheapest to fly.
Transit times and flight options to Gambia
Airport to airport transit into Banjul runs about 3-5 days on our standard consolidated service, including build-up, screening and the connection at the transit hub. Express bookings on direct flights cut that down where capacity allows, and next-flight-out is available for breakdown spares where the freight cost is irrelevant beside the cost of standing still.
Charter and part-charter make sense for project cargo, oversized pieces or relief work into Gambia where scheduled hold dimensions will not take the freight. We price those case by case with the handling agent and the permits included.
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Quote
Weights, dimensions and commodity confirmed, rate issued.
- 2
Collection
Cargo collected in the UK and re-weighed at our facility.
- 3
Screening
Security screening and build-up for the booked flight.
- 4
Flight
Departure to Banjul, AWB tracking shared.
- 5
Delivery
Clearance in Gambia, duty settled and delivery to the consignee.
Air freight cargo we handle to Gambia
Every consignment is planned around the commodity, not squeezed into a single service.
General cargo
Cartons, crates and pallets of trade goods on consolidated or direct services into Banjul.
Urgent spares & AOG
Next-flight-out bookings and hand-carry where a line or vessel is down.
Excess baggage
Boxes and suitcases for anyone relocating to or studying in Gambia, collected from your door.
Perishables & pharma
Temperature controlled packaging, cool chain handling and logger monitoring.
Dangerous goods
IATA-classified batteries, chemicals, aerosols and paints packed and declared correctly.
Oversized & charter
Freighter capacity and part-charter for pieces beyond passenger hold limits.
Sea freight as an alternative
If the deadline allows, ocean freight to Gambia typically runs 3-4 weeks and costs a fraction of the air rate on anything heavy or bulky. Compare a container shipment to Gambia or, for vehicles, RoRo car shipping to Gambia.