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Hi Vasi,

Some responses to your questions:

I am looking for a ferry from the Canaries, from mainland Spain, from Morocco or even from Senegal, but it seems to be no such options!

There are no passenger ferries to Cape Verde from any international port of origin. You are required to come by airplane! There are many options for flights from Europe, Morroco and from Dakar, Senegal.

Then I was searching for a company (RoRo maybe or something similar) that can just ship my van there.

No such service exists. The only way to ship large items into Cape Verde is by container ship. Luckily, most of the ships coming into CV pass through the Canaries on the way from Portugal and Spain. There are no container ships coming directly from Morroco or Senegal (they actually go backwards through Portugal or the Canaries, believe it or not, to combine with the massive flows of imports coming through the Canaries and Portugal...there's not enough cargfo coming from Morocco or Dakar to make it viable for the shipping companies).

I was reading carefully your previous conversations and I wanted to ask if there is a period of time that I can pass with my car without importing it.

Unfortunately, you cannot pass any period of time in CV without importing. Anything coming into the port is considered an import (and you will have to present a bill of lading and an export certificate issued by the country from which the vehicle is coming!) If you are only here temporarily, you can obtain a waiver of import duties. This means that you will have to pay some portion of the import duties as a deposit (the full import duty can be from 100-200% of the value of your vehicle) but you will receive a refund of a portion of that deposit when you re-export the vehicle.

For example in the Canaries you have 6 months as a visitor.

In Cape Verde, you will have 30 days on a tourism visa, but you can extend it for 90 days (easily) or 180 days (not as easily).

And secondly I kindly ask for your advice or any recommendations/ideas about sending my van there somehow. Am I missing something? Seems pretty hard to visit Cape Verde by car.

Yes, you are missing something that is quite big and expensive - Cape Verde's bureaucracy. It will cost you a massive amount of time and money to get your van here. It is simply not worth it. I strongly recommend you leave your van at home and stay at a break and breakfast lodging and rent a vehicle. It will be a fraction of the price that you youd pay for getting your van here.

Another thing that you should be aware of is that Cape Verde is comprised of very tiny islands. It would be insane to bring a car here even if there was less bureacracy as the cost of shipping alone would be considerable and there's nowhere to go with a car! You can drive around each of São Vicente, Santo Antão, São Nicolau, Sal, Boa Vista, Maio, Fogo or Brava in less than 1 day. Santiago you can do in under 2 days. There is absolutely no reason to bring a car or van, even if you planned to sleep in it as it would be much cheaper to stay in a hotel and rent a car as needed.

Cheers,

Angelo

@CVAngelo

Thanks a lot for your time answering in detail everything clearly!