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CORPORATE NEWSPAPER 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. 2 COVER STORY 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”. 6 ACEX PLANET – ROSTOV 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.