International courier from Udaipur to Portugal. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Udaipur door, packed and documented, into the DTDC International network. 7–10 working days door-to-door for express; from ₹1,400 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from your Udaipur door to a Portuguese address.
Pickup, Udaipur.
Free at 5 kg+. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill.
Pack & document.
Commercial invoice, KYC, content declaration. Done at our office before handover.
DTDC handover.
Same evening into the DTDC International facility; air movement to the Portugal gateway via Mumbai or Delhi.
Portuguese customs.
Clearance at Lisbon (LIS), Porto (OPO) or Faro (FAO), often via a Schengen-EU trans-shipment from Frankfurt, Amsterdam or Madrid. Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira are generally efficient — clean parcels usually clear in 24–72 hours.
Doorstep delivery.
Last-mile in Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, Faro and the Algarve. POD on WhatsApp the same day.
Starting rates. Real pricing depends on weight.
Final price depends on actual or volumetric weight (whichever is greater) plus the international fuel surcharge in force on your booking date. GST is extra.
Starting per-kg rates
- Express (7–10 days, door)from ₹1,400 / kg
- Economy (10–15 days, door)from ₹1,050 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from UdaipurFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say cotton kurtas, a wedding-card box and a small papier-mâché piece for family in Lisbon:
- Express, 2 kg × ₹1,400≈ ₹2,800
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹700
- + GST 18%≈ ₹630
- Approx total, express≈ ₹4,650
Indicative only. Fuel surcharge and rate cards change.
What you’ll need at pickup.
Customs paperwork is the most common reason an international parcel stalls. We’ll walk you through it before pickup so it doesn’t.
KYC of the sender
One photo ID for the person whose name is on the AWB — Aadhaar, passport or driving licence. We photograph it at pickup; not stored beyond DTDC’s record.
Commercial invoice
For commercial goods, a printed invoice listing items, quantity and value. For gifts, a written declaration suffices but value still must be stated. Portugal is in the EU — items above €150 attract VAT and possible duty under TARIC.
Recipient NIF / NIPC
The recipient’s NIF (Portuguese tax number) on the invoice helps Autoridade Tributária clear the parcel quickly; for B2B, the NIPC is required. Medicines fall under INFARMED regulation — prescription copy mandatory.
What Portugal doesn’t let in.
Portugal is in the EU and follows TARIC rules. Despite Portugal’s decriminalisation of personal-use drug possession, courier networks have a strict zero-tolerance policy. These are real Portuguese Customs and INFARMED rules, not our caution.
Don’t even try
- Drugs and narcotics — Portugal decriminalised personal-use possession but courier and import rules are zero-tolerance. No exceptions.
- Weapons, replicas, knives — including air pistols, decorative swords and martial-arts items.
- Aerosols and pressurised containers — universal courier rule on the air leg.
- Lithium batteries above 100 Wh — restricted on the air leg.
- Counterfeit goods — fake-branded apparel and electronics are seized at Lisbon.
- CITES-listed wildlife items — ivory, certain skins, shahtoosh, rare-wood handicrafts without permit.
- Goa-Portuguese-era heritage items — colonial-period artefacts, ecclesiastical items and old Goan-Portuguese documents may be reviewed; declare carefully and have a clear provenance note.
Allowed with care
- Textiles, sarees, block-print fabric, papier-mâché — declare a fair value.
- Books and printed material — any topic; Portuguese-translated Indian material is welcomed (the Goa–Portugal connection means Portuguese readers especially appreciate this).
- Sealed dry sweets and namkeen (factory-packed) — declare ingredients and allergens; fine in small personal quantities, no homemade food.
- Prescription tablets — sealed strip, doctor’s prescription, no injectables, no controlled substances.
- Non-precious jewellery — declare make and value; no gold bars or unhallmarked precious metals.
- Small electronics — phones, headphones, smartwatches; declare make, model, value.
Goan-Portuguese diaspora, weddings, B2B handicraft.
Gifts to Indian-Portuguese families
Lisbon (Lumiar, Olivais), Porto, Coimbra — the diaspora is anchored by the historic Goa-Portugal connection, with a large Goan-Portuguese community especially in Lisbon-Lumiar and Olivais. A growing Indian-IT cohort also lives across Lisbon and Porto. Sweets, sarees, kids’ clothes, festival hampers.
Wedding outfits to Goan-Catholic-Hindu fusion weddings
Sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas — and equally the formal Catholic-style outfits for the church-side service. Goan-Portuguese fusion weddings have their own rhythm, and outfits are often shipped weeks ahead.
Diwali parcels
Diyas, decorations, pooja items, dry sweets in factory packs. Recommend express to land before the festival.
B2B handicraft to Lisbon design-shops
Block-print fabric, cushion covers, papier-mâché, miniatures — and especially Goan-themed decorative arts that resonate historically. Shipped to design-shop boutiques in Lisbon and Porto.
Returning-traveller baggage
Portuguese tourists who shopped too much in Udaipur or on a Goa-and-Rajasthan trip — picked up from the hotel, packed, shipped before they fly home.
Student care kits
Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade do Porto, NOVA Lisboa — Indian students on engineering and management tracks. Books, sealed snacks, kitchen tools, festival clothing.
Goan-Portuguese-heritage items
Some senior Goan-Portuguese families ask us to help ship pre-Goa-handover ancestral pieces (papers, photographs, modest-value heritage items) along the Marwari-Udaipur logistics route — a small but meaningful niche. Provenance documents help.
AWB on WhatsApp. Track on dtdc.in. POD when it lands.
The moment the parcel is booked into DTDC International, we send you the AWB number on WhatsApp. Type it into the public tracker at dtdc.in any time. When delivery happens we forward the POD — signed slip or photo — within the hour.
Asked most often.
We’re a Goan-Portuguese family — can you ship pre-handover ancestral items?
Yes, and it’s a niche we’ve handled before. Modest-value family heritage items — old photographs, letters, devotional pieces, family papers — can ship via this lane provided they are clearly described on the invoice with a fair value, and (where helpful) a one-line provenance note. Anything that looks like a colonial-era ecclesiastical artefact or higher-value antique should be flagged separately so we can advise on documentation; in some cases an export NOC may apply.
Why does Portugal take 7–10 days when northern EU is 5–7?
Portugal is on the western edge of the EU, and DTDC’s air movement usually trans-ships through a northern hub — Frankfurt, Amsterdam or Madrid — before the leg into Lisbon. That extra hop adds a working day or two. Customs at Lisbon are efficient (24–72 hours typical), so the time goes into the routing, not the clearance. Plan for 7–10 days express; surface economy is 10–15 days.
I have family in Lumiar — is delivery there straightforward?
Yes. Lisbon-Lumiar and Olivais are weekly destinations on this lane — the Goan-Portuguese community there is well-established and last-mile delivery to apartment addresses is routine. Make sure the invoice has a Portuguese-format mobile number and the apartment / floor / door number; that detail is what saves a re-attempt when the courier finds the building entrance locked.