catering portal france

[TomJ]

I had exactly the same experience as the OP. But I must say, they were still very responsive to my emails. I am lucky enough to have a friend in Germany who's willing to receive and reship some thermoports to me, which will end up costing about €40 extra. Probably not worth it just for the stockpots, but worth it for the thermoports IMO.

[Blackaddler]

Did they quote a price for the 100L stockpot?

[Aleman]

I had exactly the same experience as the OP. But I must say, they were still very responsive to my emails. I am lucky enough to have a friend in Germany who's willing to receive and reship some thermoports to me, which will end up costing about €40 extra. Probably not worth it just for the stockpots, but worth it for the thermoports IMO.

At that additional Cost you are probably better off buying from MrLard at Home Brew Builder

[Cazamodo]

I had exactly the same experience as the OP. But I must say, they were still very responsive to my emails. I am lucky enough to have a friend in Germany who's willing to receive and reship some thermoports to me, which will end up costing about €40 extra. Probably not worth it just for the stockpots, but worth it for the thermoports IMO.

At that additional Cost you are probably better off buying from MrLard at Home Brew Builder

I've actually been in contact with him, and waiting for an invoice for my new build to arrive! First time I haven't made my set-up myself, so I've decided to build a control panel to make up for it.

[tourer]

Ok who are catering portal in France?? What the company does or where they are in France. Been on the internet and i can't find any reference to them, and i've spent an hour searching for them.

[GrowlingDogBeer]

Ok who are catering portal in France?? What the company does or where they are in France. Been on the internet and i can't find any reference to them, and i've spent an hour searching for them.

They are a company that used to sell the pots on ebay France and used to ship to the uk in flimsy boxes. Good price when they were selling, but alas no more.

I bought my pots from themaltmiller.co.uk a few years ago, same pots but I had the holes predrilled and taps fitted on my HLT and kettle as was nervous of messing it up myself.

[Pinto]

Catering Portal in France dont exist any more - they were an outlet for Bergland (a german retailer) for their cheap stainless pots and thermopots via french ebay. When Bergland decided to stop international shipping, they became extinct.

[treble9man]

Looking through the thread it seems that nobody has actually imported any shiny from China.
Is this correct?

I have been browsing various chinese suppliers and plan to try and bring in 2 VERY BIG stockpots.
The price quoted, for 1.2mm wall thickness pots seems reasonable and they've quoted a shipping fee to a UK port.

Just got to try and sort out what other charges there may be......

If anybody HAS already managed to import stuff, I'd be grateful for any info/guidance.

[Titch]

I did bring in samples . It's fairly easy but they will hound you for a larger order . They work on commission to don't understand small but frequent .

[tourer]

Catering Portal in France dont exist any more - they were an outlet for Bergland (a german retailer) for their cheap stainless pots and thermopots via french ebay. When Bergland decided to stop international shipping, they became extinct.

Got it , thanks for that.

[Brighteyebeer]

Looking through the thread it seems that nobody has actually imported any shiny from China.
Is this correct?

I have been browsing various chinese suppliers and plan to try and bring in 2 VERY BIG stockpots.
The price quoted, for 1.2mm wall thickness pots seems reasonable and they've quoted a shipping fee to a UK port.

Just got to try and sort out what other charges there may be......

If anybody HAS already managed to import stuff, I'd be grateful for any info/guidance.

Take the purchase cost to man'f'r, and add initial shipping charge. UK import duty is then 2 to 3% of this total, then 20% VAT on that total. (Tax on your tax - great!).

Also be aware that the shipping costs are to put your goods in a container on a ship pointing this way. On arrival, there are numerous charges made by UK agents - handling fees, documentation fees, customs clearance fees, lalala, then transport from UK port to you (plus warehousing charges after the 1 week's storage covered by handling charges).

Rule of thumb is to take the purchase cost, then double it, to account for shipping, UK handling and duty etc.

Hope that's not too scary!

Cheers,
Chris

[Aleman]

Looking through the thread it seems that nobody has actually imported any shiny from China.
Is this correct?

MrLard at Homebrew builder brings pots in from China . . .which is why he is so much cheaper than the other two . . . His supplier is not the one that does Catering Portal either

[TomJ]

My two 70L Thermoports from Bergland in Germany, shipped to my friend in Berlin and then DHL from Berlin to here in Reading, cost €216 + €13 shipping to Berlin + €45 shipping to UK = €274, or £230 all up. I can't find a price close to £115 for such an insulated SS thermopot here in the UK, so quite happy. For uninsulated stockpots it might not be worth it though.

I believe there might be shipping companies in Germany that you can get them shipped to who will then take care of shipping to the UK., but not sure.