Incoterm
DAP on a truck of oranges, down to unloading
Delivered at Place means the vehicle reaches the address you named and stops with the fruit still on it. Taking the pallets off is yours. So are import clearance, duty and tax when the delivery crosses a customs border. The term settles who carries the load to your door, and it says nothing about how long that door takes to open.
The figures
| Incoterms 2020 group | Rules for any mode of transport |
|---|---|
| Delivery point | The named place, ready for unloading |
| Risk passes | On arrival, before the load comes off |
| Carriage | Contracted and paid by the seller |
| Unloading | Buyer |
| Import clearance, duty and tax | Buyer |
What it changes on an order
Your warehouse works to booking slots
A refrigerated vehicle waiting for a bay is burning fuel and time that belong to nobody until the contract says so. Fix the free time and the hourly cost after it with the same care you fix the price of the fruit.
You receive at a market stand or a small shop
Delivery ready for unloading assumes somebody there can take a pallet off a trailer. Say what equipment exists at the address, whether a tail lift is needed and how wide the access is, because a vehicle that cannot approach has still delivered under this rule.
The delivery leaves the customs union
Entry formalities are yours here. A load held at the frontier because a document was missing waits at your risk, and citrus does not improve while it waits.
What this note does not settle
- This is not a statement that we deliver to your country, or in what time. Our destination coverage, transit times and vehicle arrangements are pending confirmation with the grower.
- The term does not set a temperature. What the reefer runs at, and who is responsible if the record shows a deviation, are written in the sale contract and in the carriage contract.
- A named place is an address, not a date. Arrival windows, penalties for a late vehicle and what happens on a public holiday are all negotiated separately.
Source: ICC Incoterms 2020 rules
The last hour of the journey is yours
Delivery under this rule ends with a vehicle at your address and the fruit still on board it. Getting the pallets off is the buyer's job, which sounds trivial until the address is a city centre shop with no dock, or a market stand where the equipment amounts to a pallet truck and a ramp. Describe the delivery point before the vehicle is booked rather than while it waits outside.
Waiting is the other half of that hour. A refrigerated trailer holding temperature in a yard is burning fuel and holding a driver, and both are billed to someone. Free time and the rate that applies afterwards belong in the carriage contract, and they deserve the attention that went into the price of the fruit.
A frontier in the middle of a delivered term
Where the delivery crosses out of the customs union, the seller brings the goods and the buyer clears them. That split catches people out, because everything else about the term feels like a door to door service. A load held at the border over a missing document waits at the buyer's risk, on a clock that fresh fruit reads very differently from machinery.
The defence is dull and it works. Know which entry documents your side needs, instruct the broker before the vehicle leaves Valencia, and settle with the seller how the paperwork travels. A delivered term takes the driving off your hands and leaves the formalities exactly where they were.
Talk to the grower
Tell us the variety, the sizes and the delivery week you need. You get a delivered price and what we can commit to in writing, from the person who picks the fruit.
The grower handles enquiries. Response times are still to be confirmed.