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Live, Laugh, All in One from the Agency Make Friends... of Customs Logistics
Shout Well…tell us what for Your Team! you need to ship
July - August, 2017, № 6 COVER STORY
Live, Laugh, Make Friends with Slovenia and Others
Russian logistics alliance has moved beyond A company from Slovenia joined ACEX the Russian borders and now it is moving after the exhibition held in Munich where forward to the East and West to make new the alliance was represented by a joint stand. friends overseas. Globus is a logistic company with a car fleet consisting of more than 100 modern, Today among the official ACEX members environment friendly and reliable vehicles of there are MIG Express from the USA, Fans the leading brands, equipped with refrigerators Trans from China, Optima Freight from and ADR. Since 1991 the new alliance member Finland, Ingstad & Co from Lithuania, ASE is specialized in transports to and from Air Sea Express from Taiwan, DACO Logistics former Soviet Republics, i.e. Russia, Belarus, from Vietnam. Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, ACEX is legally represented in Tallinn and Mongolia and other European countries. Helsinki.
Each company has its own advantages and proven records of long-term expertise and successful implementation of projects. AIRON Logistics from Turkey joined ACEX in June, global networks from Canada and UAE started cooperation with the alliance.
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Apart from the official members that signed minimum of 50-100 EUR per transaction in an agreement with the Russian alliance, ACEX Russia, making payment of separate invoices is represented by a reliable agent network in inefficient. more than 100 countries.
“We primarily position our agency network comprising foreign logistic companies that are members of global logistic associations as our main asset,” says Evgeniya Vidulina, ACEX agency network coordinator, who is responsible for negotiations organization and operational interaction. “They are not only companies that provide reliable services with competitive rates but they are a potential source of new customers as well”.
In order to optimize financial coordination between the Alliance members and its overseas partners, all financial transactions are carried out under “one-window” scheme through «High-quality of work with agency requests Alliance clearing centre, ACEX SIA, located that are arriving daily allows the Russian in Riga, Latvia. By virtue of the financial companies to participate in the international transactions through the clearing centre, a chains of deliveries of freights including large company established in accordance with the holdings and corporations, access to which European legislation, the Alliance contributes for small and medium-sized companies as a to cost reduction and simplification of rule is closed. Besides, presence of foreign transactions with a possibility of deferred partners allows the existing customers payment. expand a range of the offered services due to rendering additional local service worldwide and also possibilities of the organization of deliveries between the third countries.
In turn foreign partners and participants perceive us as the point of contact capable to solve the majority of logistic tasks in the Russian market. The Alliance is a synonym of reliability, positive reputation, guarantees and transparency in the unfamiliar and This scheme enables ACEX members to “frightening” Russian market, a wide geography economize significantly on the bank fees and of participants and the main centers of the currency exchange commissions which may cargo traffics covering,» - Evgenia Vidulina is amount up to 4-5% of the payable amount, sure.
3 CLEAR PROP Maria from Moscow and Maria from Rostov Know their Business Maria Moskvicheva, director of ACEX Rostov- on-Don and Maria Kulikova, expert of airfreight department of ACEX Moscow, demonstrated great teamwork of two ACEX offices in Russia.
The project of large cargo transportation from New Zealand to Krasnodar was implemented beautifully in a feminine way. Logistics is a many- sided sphere where something beautiful can be created out of simple things. One of the Rostov A note from Maria Kulikova: office customers is a company that produces Internal customs transit is a popular service among the cargo owners. canvas and vehicle curtains. It seems that there Taking into consideration an amount of is nothing special about it but very often simple cargo in the Moscow air hub internal things like vehicle curtains can become a brand customs transit helps to save up time identity of a company. and provide customs clearance at the destination point at the regional customs’ office. The customer interested in transportation of the beautiful is based in Krasnodar but the company capable of manufacturing of large- format printing plotters could not be found closer than in New Zealand. They manufactured 4 large-format printing plotters 3,5 metres each.
“The plotters were shipped by Emirates,” Maria Moskvicheva, general director of TC Bureau Perevozok (ACEX Rostov-on-Don) tells. “CARGO-EXPRESS (ACEX Moscow) met the cargo in Domodedovo and helped to organize internal customs transit, after that the cargo was delivered to the customer to Krasnodar”.
Maria Kulikova, an expert of airfreight department at ACEX Moscow-Domodedovo was coordinating the transportation after its arrival to Domodedovo.
4 TAKE A DRIVE Walking down the Russian Meadows and Forests along the Conveyor Band! Kostomuksha, Borovichi, Revda, Nizhnekamsk, Stary Oskol are not the complete list of destinations of industrial equipment deliveries from Germany to Russia performed by the Multimodal Department of ACEX Moscow for one of its favourite customers.
The product classification is wide: endless conveyor band, motor reducers with speed indicators, ball bearings, rolls, motors and other products for industrial use. The manufactured locations of Russia. Customer’s word is our equipment is used in logistics, vehicles, mining, command”. chemical and power industries for various processes such as weighing, batching and even All equipment shipments are performed bolting. through the consolidated warehouse in Lithuania, cleared through customs and later “We organize road cargo delivery they achieve their destinations. from Germany to our warehouse located at Ilovaiskaya Street in Moscow”, Sergey Lopukhov, ACEX Moscow Department CARGO- multimodal department expert says, “after that EXPRESS is an expert in rendering this service we either ship the equipment to the customer’s and it is always ready to offer the competitive office or organize the transportation to various rates and its experience to customers.
5 SAIL ON SALE Cargo Traffic from Turkey Grows and so does the Number of BSSS Customers ACEX member in Novorossiysk, BSSS company received a high-profile customer after they won a tender for Castrol oil supply for the famous British Petroleum.
From Gemlik port to Novorossiysk 40 ft containers are shipped 3-4 times a week on regular basis. The cargo is not opened in Novorossiysk. Company specialists issue AIRON Logistics that represents Turkey with internal customs transit to Moscow region headquarters in Istanbul joined ACEX in June. where the cargo is customs cleared at Alabinskiy “In the current favourable conditions a new customs post. member can be beneficial for both parties”, Denis Bobrakov says. “Cargo traffic from Turkey has substantially increased since the customs’ office has loosened “Novorossiysk is favourable located for import its grip”, Denis Bobrakov, commercial director and export from/to Turkey; there are a lot of at BSSS says. “The compulsory inspection has requests for cargo transportation from Turkey to been cancelled and it affects the development of Russia nowadays. AIRON is of great interest for cargo traffic in a positive way”. import from Turkey to Russia”.
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DIVE INTO A WORLD OF FANTASY WITH ACEX ROSTOV
John Ronald Tolkien is the author of the popular TC Bureau Perevozok (ACEX Rostov-on-Don), book of the XX century that was translated into “this procedure is obligatory even for the objects 38 languages and served as a base for movies of this kind and it is aimed at preventing of shot by Hollywood directors. The Lord of the export of cultural and historical values overseas”. Rings told us a story about hobbits and gollums, elfs and balrogs. Cargoes even from other worlds become reality by the virtue of our colleagues’ expertise and A sculpture of one of the novel characters called ACEX slogan “A potentia ad actum!” that means balrog created by an artist from Saint Petersburg from possibility to reality. was shipped to Washington where it enlarged the collection that belongs to an American fan of fantasy. The balrog weighs around 50 kilos and is pretty large, it is 120 cm wide. And it looks rather creepy.
But experts from ACEX Rostov were not frightened; they packaged the cargo, filled in the export declaration and organized transportation of the sculpture.
“We had to apply for the permit from the Ministry of Culture to export the piece of art,” says Maria Moskvicheva, general director of
7 MASTER CLASS NOVOTEC Plus Cuts Customer Expenses by 10-15% ACEX member in Novorossyisk NOVOTEС Plus launched a new service in June. The compa- ny started to reload the agricultural products from bags to the containers in bulk. Earlier NOVOTEС used the services provided by the transloading terminal and formed a commercial offer that included the subcontractor rates.
NOVOTEС Plus purchased additional han- dling equipment; company specialists developed an optimized loading scheme, quickly acquaint- ed a new procedure and put it into practice.
The procedure is as follows: company personnel opens the bags and pours the rice out to the reload- complex allowed us to cut the customer ing complex and afterwards loads the rice into the expenses by 10-15%”, Vladimir Filatov, com containers. The first batch consisting of 20 contain- mercial director at NOVOTEС Plus says, “this ers (500 ton) was loaded within 7 days. Today the is preliminary information, more accurate data working capacity is 6 containers per day. can be provided after we reload 2000 – 5000 tons. By that time we will receive more detailed “As far as we can see after we processed the information regarding planned and unplanned first batch, an introduction of the own reloading expenditures and prime cost”.
Vladimir is sure that with the monthly 2000 ton load the complex equipment shall pay off within 3 months.
We wish success to our colleagues and looking forward to hearing stories about new process solutions!
8 ACEX PLANET – NOVOROSSYISK NOVOTEС PLUS OFFERS 6,5 Ha LAND
container terminal for import-export cargoes processing, loading-unloading complex for car- go transshipment and fumigation site.
NOVOTEС Plus, ACEX member in Novorossiysk developed a business idea of operation through an Independent Distribution centre for major national suppliers of products and commodities.
NOVOTEС Plus offers interested investors to “Today companies like Lenta or Auchan use participate in the development of a modern lo- their own logistic centers that they build them- gistics complex and purchase an area of 6,5 ha in selves,” Vladimir Filatov, commercial director at Novorossiysk. NOVOTEС Plus says, “we’re offering to create a cross-functional platform where each customer will In 2015 a Moscow based consulting company have access to any service. Convenient location and developed a conception of a warehouse complex cost reduces will allow saving customer’s financial and proved the viability of the project at a 6,5 resources for other projects”. Ha area. The conception developer presented several scenarios for the land development, vari- Geographically the land has a high level of access. ous zoning plans, description of possible renters, It is located in stanitsa Rayevskoye, on the front recommendations on space and layout design, line from the Novorossiysk – Natukhaevskaya economic model and payout time. In 2016 the road, 9 km away from the federal highway M-4. land owner developed an idea of its alternative The distance to Novorossiysk port is 24 km, to use as a logistic park with C class warehouses, Anapa and Novorossiysk 19 and 21 km.
Those who are interested in the purchase of the land please contact Vladimir Filatov.
+79887708003, e-mail: [email protected]
НА ПРАВАХ РЕКЛАМЫ 9 OUR FELLOWS
All in One from the Agency of Customs Logistics or How to Combine Hobby, Sport and Work
Cars unite several generations in Smirnovs overseas. ATA Carnet procedure is aimed at family from Togliatti. The eldest of them is simplification of export products on the territory Valeriy Ivanovich, the father of the General of other countries. Director of the company Andrey Smirnov. He used to be the head of Zhiguli cars transmission In 2008 – 2015 the Agency specialists from test department, took part in car rally and Togliatti worked with ATA Carnet several times was a candidate master of sports in USSR. for the sport teams from Samara region. The When Andrey was young he accomplished a specialists prepared the cars and the required motor sports first category as well, but went equipment for export and import, they provided further in his career in international business freight forwarding as well. development. His son Kirill went further in sports, when he was 16 he accomplished master “We had projects when category in motor sport and as a student he was the product classifica- in a motor sport team of Bauman Moscow State tion lists included thou- Technical University, twice he was Moscow’s sands of items”, Andrey champion in carting. Smirnov, general di- When Kirill was supposed to participate in the rector at the Agency of international competition at the Chaika motor Customs Logistics says, circuit (Kiev, Ukraine) and Bikernieke (Riga, “carriers with racing Latvia) he managed to combine his hobby and cars, trucks with spare his work at the Agency of Customs Logistics. tyres, engines, carriage body details went on trips, there were even mo- Lada Cup is the biggest international motor bile service stations that turned into a complex competition. A lot of cars, their spare parts, tools for service, repairs and storage of equipment and other team belongings are being shipped right on the track”.
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This experience allows ACEX member in Samara region provide services related to the import of cars from overseas to the Russian Federation for road tests and other operations related to the border crossings by the means of ATA Carnet.
11 BEING THERE Shout for Your Team! This year Russia is the host country for the Confederation Cup. Cheers and chants quieted down; champagne that was poured over the winners dried away but there 2018 FIFA World Cup ahead. We decided to find out what teams do ACEX members support and what sport events do they attend.
DARYA APASOVA, DENIS BOBRAKOV, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT, ACEX SAINT PETERSBURG ACEX NOVOROSSYISK All my life is closely connected with sport. Some time ago I used to play football professionally, nowadays I play indoor and outdoor football, our team participates in Anapa Region Championship. Among football teams I support FC Krasnodar and FC Barcelona. When I was a child my idol was Zinedine Zidane, now I support Iniesta, he is a half-back at FC Barcelona. He is not probably as popular as Neymar or Messi but I do respect him for his technique and we are both by the way half- backs at our teams.
I believe that team sports like football teaches us teamwork. It is more difficult to reach a goal alone but when you have a strong team you can achieve anything!
I’ve been a huge fan of football for 15 years! I’ve never missed a single home game of my favourite team from Samara called Krylya Sovetov. Bronze medals, life or death matches, roaring stadiums, autographs of favourite team players, and coach- es – I faced it all!
In Saint Petersburg I still attend football match- es, but now I have one more favourite team – Zenit, and when Zenit plays against Krylya I al- ways wear the colors of both teams and support them both and just enjoy the game.
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VLADIMIR BOYARCHUK, I support an ice hockey team from Ufa called GENERAL DIRECTOR, Salavat Yulayev, their fan club has an interesting ACEX IRKUTSK nickname, it is called “green machine”. Green is their main color, the players and cheerleaders wear green uniform, the cheerleaders are called “Ice Girls”, and they are becoming so popular that I think that one day they will have their own fan club.
Recently I’ve started to attend basketball games; my favourite team is BC Khimki! The games are very exciting and dynamic, you will never get bored, and in just one minute the score can change completely. Event tourism especially sports events is my hobby! Olympics in Beijing, Vancouver, I believe that the coolest thing about watching FIFA in Brasil, Bandy World Championship in games at the stadium is getting all kinds of emo- Irkutsk are only a small part of all events that tions and drive! I think that everyone should at- I attended. tend such events from time to time.
All of them are awesome in their own way, tons ALEXANDER of emotions and it is really hard to choose the LEONTYEVSKIY, brightest one. Well, the most vivid memories MULTIMODAL DEPARTMENT EXPERT, are of Maracana Stadium in Brasil. Copacabana, ACEX LOBNYA football, fans, ocean all together it was AWE- SOME!
ELINA VALEEVA, MARKETING AND ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER, ACEX MOSCOW
I’d be happy to attend Russian Drift Series, this year they took place in May on the Moscow race track in Volokolamsk area of the Moscow region. Among Russian drifters I would name Arkadiy Tsaregratsev and Gocha Chivchyan, they made a great contribution into this sport and Russian culture in general.
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VADIM MARDANOV, GENERAL DIRECTOR, ACEX YEKATERINBURG
Among football teams I support “bumble- bees” – it’s a nickname of FC Ural. It is the lead- ing club of the Sverdlovsk area and Yekaterinburg that represents our region and town in Russia. The club is more than 80 years old. The colors of the club are black and orange, and their mascot is a bumblebee. I don’t really have time to attend football matches unfortunately, so I support the team watching games on TV.
a goal 1:0. In my memories there is a beauti- ful Donbass Arena, people who are singing the Ukranian anthem, waving flags…and just in two years there is no stadium, no friendship. We live at a very amazing time being at the shoulder of history!
DANA ARSHINA, HEAD OF ADVERTISING AND PR DEPARTMENT, ACEX KAZAN
MARIA MOSKVICHEVA, GENERAL DIRECTOR, ACEX ROSTOV-ON-DON I support FC Rostov and FC Zenit, and the brightest memory associated with the football match is related to European Championship 2012 in Donetsk. It was a game England vs Ukraine. As far as I remember Rooney scored
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Kazan can fairly be called a capital of sports, with them. Now we’re looking forward to FIFA it is impossible here to avoid sport events. 2018, we will definitely attend the games. Our PSG team tries to lead an active lifestyle INNA VYSOTSKAYA, – mountain climbing, camping, marathons etc. MARKETING DIRECTOR, We attend sporting events as well supporting ACEX MOSCOW HC Ak Bars and FC Rubin, we went to watch World Aquatics Championships that took place Winter Olympics in Sochi is the pinnacle in Kazan in 2015. of the Russian sport and the most memor able sporting event in my life. Together with But the brightest memories are of football kids we attended ice-hockey semi-final, figure match during Confederation Cup 2017 when skating contest (the picture was taken on the the team of Portugal led by Cristiano Ronaldo day when Adelina Sotnikova, a Russian figure played against Mexico. You rarely have a chance skater, won the golden medal). Freestyle at of watching a football game live with the legend- Rosa Khutor. ary players and we of course couldn’t miss it! It was very interesting to watch how Ronaldo lit- It was a bright week in the atmosphere of patri- erally hauls the team using his signature moves. otic spirit, Russian victories, high level of orga- Mexican fans were fun to watch, they were very nization, mutual support and friendship! I wish emotional and active, and we even took a picture this would last longer.
15 MONTH CONTEST The best fan photo The total winner is the picture by Denis Bobrakov from a football match Barcelona vs. Leon (Mexico) at the Barcelona stadium taken in 2014. Our congratulations to Denis and a corporate prize – a thermomug that will be undoubtedly useful during his travel and it will keep his drink as hot as the hearts of true fans of FC Barcelona!
16 ACEX GUIDE Bon Appetit! It is not a top secret that places are best remembered for the delicious and unusual meals of the local cuisine. Among ACEX members we found a lot of foodies who decided to share their experience and impression of the tried meals and give us recommendations what is a must-try during your travel around the world.
ANDREY BARANOV, I tried pig’s brain soup, the broth is bitter-sour BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, ACEX CHINA and the brains are tasteless, toads, they are very bony and taste like chicken or fish, in Hong Kong I tried to eat a pigeon, it has black meat and tastes like chicken. What I would never eat are spiders or maggots! By the way, my girlfriends is taking me to go and eat some silkmoth, I’m waiting for this day in terror. In my opinion, here people are ready for anything in order to combine products that at first glance seem inedible and make something interesting and eatable.
ELENA BARANOVA, DEPUTY MARKETING DIRECTOR, DEVIL-MAY-CARE CUISINE ACEX MOSCOW Chinese cuisine is famous all over the world, it is very ancient and everything about it is breath- taking not only the taste but the combination of ingredients as well. The most unusual thing that I’ve eaten was the jellyfish with salad and pepper, the taste of vegetables and pepper is really vivid, and the jellyfish tastes like cucumber.
HOME-COOKED SOUP Last year in MEGA KHIMKI The Local Chiefs restaurant staretd to work in Moscow. We visited it not a long time ago. There is a zone where you can make soup of seafood, meatballs, beef, chicken or pork. We were not lazy to cook at home that day so we decided to go there and make ourselves a soup. They serve a ready broth and there is a cook installed in the table, basically you just have to add all the ingredients in the
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ALEXANDRA CHAGINA, DEPUTY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, ACEX MOSCOW
broth that you choose and follow the chef’s recipe.
The soup was very tasty and the experience itself was unusual but at the same time the soup turns out to be rather pricey.
DENIS BOBRAKOV, WATERMELON EXPLOSION COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR, AND CHOCOLATE ACEX NOVOROSSYISK I believe that all people should constantly JUICY KHICHINS expand their range of tastes; I personally try to I totally love Caucasian cuisine – Georgian, Adygei, Armenian. In Karachay-Cherkessia we tried local pies called khichins. I do recommend them! They can be stuffed with meat, cheese or even top leaves, we tried all of them, but I mostly liked the ones with potatoes and cheese.
18 ACEX GUIDE cook something new or buy ingredients that I’ve never tried before every month. As for the favourite cuisine for me it is Georgian! I love khachapuri and if it goes with a tomato and cucumber salad I don’t need anything else. If happen to be in Georgia I totally recommend you to try watermelon salad, it is made of watermelon, onions, olives, mint and olive oil – a very interesting combination that won’t let anyone cold, and if you drink some chacha with watermelon juice afterwards you’re going to EVGENIY RASTOPCHIN, have an explosion of tastes for sure. In Moscow BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT I advise everyone to visit French Kiss Patisserie, SENIOR EXPERT, it is a French café. Everything there is very ACEX MOSCOW tasty! But the first thing one should try there THE MOST EXOTIC CUISINE is the chocolate covered with orange crust and When I was in Thailand I tried exotic meals like pistachio chocolate candies. snake, scorpion meat and a lot of other creatures. ALEXANDER KOVALEV, I’m okay with that, I even liked it! Fried scorpions CUSTOMER RELATION MANAGER, taste like sunflower seeds, and meat of frogs and ACEX ESTONIA snakes reminded me of chicken and fish. I think it all depends on how the meal is cooked. What I would never eat is cockroaches! Not raw neither fried – no way!
THE FRESHEST SEAFOOD One can never imagine Estonia without fish and seafood! I definitely recommend you to try smoked seafood, you will be elated. If you are in Tallinn peep into the fish market near Tallinna Linnahall, there you will definitely find the freshest and most delicious fish and seafood caught in Estonia.
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chef’s preferences, usually mushrooms, sprouts, EVGENIYA VIDULINA, vegetables, roots or dried seaweed. They also add AGENT NETWORK COORDINATOR, sliced or minced raw meat, on top of all there goes ACEX GROUP a raw or fried egg. Together with bibimbap they usually serve here gochujang, it is a soy pasta with red pepper and broth. You need to add the broth, quickly stir so the raw ingredients will cook well. The meal is much flavoured, rich and it will keep you warm.
INNA VYSOTSKAYA, MARKETING DIRECTOR, ACEX GROUP
THE MOST FLAVOURED MEAL Not once have I noticed that traditional local meals as rule come from working people. For example, Italian pizza, Spanish paella, Russian vegetable soup “shchi”, French onion soup, English fish&chips etc. In Korea it is bibimbap that is a warmed bowl of rice with sliced ingredients. The choice of ingredients depends on the season and
THE MOST EXPENSIVE MEAT In Tokyo with partners from Hankyu Hanshin Express we were lucky to try the meat that is considered to be the most expensive and delicious in the world. It costs 500$ per kilo, the bulls are massaged; they drink the best sake and listen to classical music.
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MELIS SELIN OMAN, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, ACEX TURKEY THE BEST MANTI Turkish cuisine is considered to be one of the richest cuisines in the world due to a variety of meals and tastes. I’m sharing with you traditional recipes of manti and stuffed eggplants that are called imambayildi in Turkish! Bon appetite!
THE BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD On the outskirts of Neapol there is Da Michele, the oldest pizzeria in the world that was founded in 1870. There are only two types of pizza – Marinara and Margherita, not so many seats, simple design – wooden benches, ordinary napkins. Anyway it is a very popular place, a lot of celebrities and politicians visit this place. We came there at 10 pm and the line was so huge that we would have to wait for two hours to get in. We didn’t want to wait and asked the taxi driver to bring us out these legendary pizzas. It was really delicious!
THE TASTIEST ICE-CREAM The tastiest ice-cream in the world according to various ratings is Tartufo. We tried it in the motherland of ice-cream in Pizzo, Italy. It is a ball of the tastiest chocolate flavoured ice- cream with another surprise - melted chocolate inside. On top the dessert is sprinkled with cacao and sugar. The flavour is very rich but at the same time it is not too sweet. I definitely recommend it.
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1. In a medium bowl, combine 1 cup plus 2 1. Begin by preparing the eggplant. Using a vegetable peeler or tablespoons all-purpose flour, 1 large egg, 1/8 sharp knife, peel alternate strips from the eggplant from end to teaspoon kosher salt with 5 tablespoons of water and end leaving a striped pattern. Let the eggplants soak in heavily mix with a wooden spoon until a dough forms. On a salted water while you prepare the other ingredients. lightly floured work surface, knead the dough until smooth, about 5 minutes. Clean the bowl and return 2. Next, prepare the filling. Put the olive oil in a large skillet. Fry the dough to it. Cover with plastic wrap and let rest the onions until they become tender and reduced. Add 800 g for 1 1/2 hours. of ground beef and brown it thoroughly.
2. In a medium bowl, combine 1/2 pound ground 3. Using a sharp paring knife, peel five of the tomatoes and dice beef, 1 small onion, grated, 3 tablespoons minced them into cubes. Once the meat is nicely browned, add the parsley, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper cubed tomato and continue stirring. You can also substitute and mix well. fresh tomatoes with canned, diced tomatoes. Drain off the juice before adding them to the meat. 3. In a small bowl, combine the yogurt and garlic and season with salt. Mix well and refrigerate. 4. Add spices and garlic and stir well. Add the chopped parsley, In a small saucepan, melt 4 tablespoons of unsalted stir the mixture about three minutes more then turn off the butter over low heat. Stir in 2 tablespoons tomato heat and let it rest. sauce, add paprika and keep warm. Use dried mint and Aleppo pepper for garnish. 5. Drain the eggplants and blot them dry with paper towels. In another skillet, heat the vegetable oil and fry the eggplants 4. On a lightly floured work surface, using a lightly whole, turning them to cook evenly on all sides. When the floured rolling pin, roll out the dough 1/16 inch eggplants soften, remove them from the oil and drain them on thick. Cut the dough into 2-inch squares. Spoon 1/2 paper towels. teaspoon of the filling in the center of each square. To form the manti, fold the dough over the filling to form 6. Line up the fried eggplants side by side in an oven-proof a triangle; press the edges together to seal. Transfer baking dish. Using your paring knife, cut a slit from end to end the manti to the prepared baking sheet. of each eggplant and gently open up each one with your fingers.
5. In a large pot of boiling water, boil the manti until 7. Fill the center of each eggplant with the meat mixture. Slice tender and cooked through, about 5 minutes. Using a the two extra tomatoes thinly, cut each slice in half and place slotted spoon, transfer to bowls. Top with the yogurt the slices over the filling. Do the same with the peppers. sauce and warm butter sauce, sprinkle with dried mint and Aleppo pepper and serve. 8. Mix the water with the tomato paste and pour it into the baking dish. Cook the eggplant in a 375° F/ 200° C oven for about 30 minutes. Remove the dish from the oven and let it rest for a few minutes before serving
22 YOU MUST BE KIDDING Well…tell us what you need to ship Every day in our offices we receive requests from customers; some of them frankly speaking are just weird. But as they say the customer is always right. And we do everything to fulfil even the wildest requests. About the most memorable requests that our colleagues ever received please read in the following article.
TAXIDERMY MOOSE HEAD BELL The most peculiar cargo for ACEX member from One time we received a request from a company Kazan was a hunting trophy - taxidermy moose for transportation of a bell to Cyprus. head was delivered from Naberezhnye Chelny to Ravensburg in Germany following all the customs formalities. Gulnaz Zeinetdinova, ACEX Kazan
MOOSE. JUST MOOSE BANG!
BUMBLE BEE FAMILY Right now we’re working on a project of 200 KILOS OF PAPER transportation of a bumble bee family Evgeniy Rastopchin, ACEX Moscow Among unusual cargoes I remember how we shipped 200 kilos of Sberbank paper archives to Ireland. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THESE BEES
HELP! SOS!
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BOO! 40 tons of POTATOES Once we had a request to ship 40 tons of potatoes to Yakutsk by air, when we calculated the rates – the customer changed his mind, probably because of the price, the potatoes would cost $5 per kilo.
YOU CAN’T in Hollywood movies. Probably Dracula was FOOL ME renovating his castle. Denis Bobrakov, ACEX Novorossyisk
DONOR HEADS
THREE HEADS ARE BETTER ROE DEER THAN ONE They asked us to ship 50 roe deer from Yekaterinburg to Khabarovsk for breeding.
Vadim Mardanov, VST Logistic, ACEX Yekaterinburg One of our customers works in medical equipment business, once from Europe we imported for him a microscope for neurological surgery, but to use these equipment local surgeons CAN YOU GIVE had to do some special training. They decided ME A RIDE TO that the training would take place in Russia, they KHABAROVSK? would invite a surgeon from Europe for this purpose. How to study? Later they received an offer to import 2 human heads to train on, the heads were frozen and even had tag numbers. Heads were not of course found in a product classification, we applied to the Federal Customs FANCY COFFINS Service and received a feedback from them that I remember a request for transportation we should contact Ministry of Health, from the of coffins from China, they were brand new, Ministry they told us to contact Customs Service, very expensive, made of luxurious wood and this case took a year to resolve. Italian textile, even the lids were opening like Alexandra Chagina, ACEX Moscow
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PIANO HUSBAND FROM MAGADAN In June we got a phone call from an English lady who asked us to bring her husband back home to London. It turned out that he is a MUSIC traveller who went to explore Russia by car via UNITES! Mongolia and Kazakhstan and finally reached Magadan where he realized how tired he was and how he missed home. We offered him to
COME BAAACK! We shipped a piano for one of our customers. The family was moving from Russia overseas and the piano was a family member – they inherited it from grandgrandmother so they decided to take it with them. The delivery was “door-to- door”. It was very unexpected and funny. The door opens and there is a piano!
Yuriy Orlov, ACEX Moscow
YOUTH AND HEALTH I remember a day of “healthy requests”. In just one day I received a request from our long-standing customer for transportation of medications, from sales department I received a request for delivery from Saint Petersburg to Seoul chaga mushrooms, and from agency network there was a request for transportation of “youth potion” from Novosibirsk to Dubai. Evgeniya Vidulina, ACEX Moscow
FOR HEALTH drive to Zabaikalsk where our partners would
Сказочная help him, he hesitated a lot and made up his красота mind not to give up and continue his journey. I Супер-потенция guess that just was a moment of despair. We still Вечная молодость don’t know whether he reached home or not. Vyacheslav Vasipenok, ACEX Moscow
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Let us express gratitude for participation in newspaper issue preparation:
Alexander kovalev Melis Selin Oman Andrey Smirnov Evgeniy Rastopchin Vadim Mardanov Darya Apasova Denis Bobrakov Vladimir Boyarchuk Evgeniya Vidulina Alexander Leontyevskiy Maria Moskvicheva Dana Arshina Sergey Lopukhov Vyacheslav Vasipenok Vladimir Filatov Marya Kulikova Andrey Baranov Yuri Orlov Alexandra Chagina Gulnaz Zeinetdinova
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