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The economy of Uzbekistan is growing at a stable pace. The country is famous for precious stones and metals, tungsten, coal, and radioactive uranium.

What are the potential trade flows from the Old Continent to China? Are there any ways to reduce the delivery time on this route? These issues concern logistics providers on both sides of the New Silk Road.

Logistics is not only about delivering goods from point A to point B with dimensions C. Often there are also non-standard requirements, strict conditions, and special restrictions to consider.

The AsstrA corporate group summarizes its HiTech Logistics Division’s results for the first 9 months of 2019.

In May 2019, the AsstrA corporate group launched a multimodal LNG (Argon) transportation project using modernized tank containers.

In the previous article we discussed the most popular form of intra-European transport - truck deliveries.

The AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG corporate group sums up its results for the first half of 2019.

The Silk Road has taken a firm place among the most discussed topics in global logistics. Conferences, exhibitions, forums – the question of the development of the new “trade artery of the world” appears in the program of every serious logistics event. Important roles in deliveries from the Middle Kingdom are traditionally played by railway, air and sea transport. What about trucks?

The AsstrA corporate group offers comprehensive 3PL and 4PL solutions to international producers operating in the Russian Federation. The company generated 5.63% of its total turnover from working with these types of customers in 2018.

A lighter doesn’t strike an average user as anything special, especially not in terms of how it traveled into his pocket from the factory. Shipping this simple item, however, requires only slightly fewer permits than are required to ship a nuclear reactor.

To ship cargo with a delivery deadline of “yesterday” air transportation is incomparable. It has a long list of advantages but its organization demands a strong knowledge of the subtleties and nuances involved.

Each country has its own trendy products from certain brands. There is no secret that there could be hundreds or thousands of kilometers between a brand’s “homeland” and where its products are actually manufactured.

What do fireworks, men’s fragrances and batteries have in common? For logistics companies it is obvious. These goods are classed as dangerous goods. Working with them is challenging but interesting!

A 20-meter Moscow metro wagon. A 6-ton passenger plane engine. A 1,000-part city tram. All these vehicles’ components must go a long way before they can function together as a whole.

11 tons of cargo over 12,021 kilometers in only 4 days. It takes modern express air transport to put up those kinds of numbers, as AsstrA recently achieved for an Argentine customer importing metal rods from Poland.

The AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG international corporate group delivered over 190 tons of cargo to the February 2019 grand opening of the Kalina Mall shopping and exhibition complex in Vladivostok.

Despite the much-discussed trade disputes (so-called Trade Wars) between the United States, Europe, and Russia, international transportation and logistics services provider AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG’s year-on-year Transatlantic cargo volume grew by 27% in 2018.

The AsstrA corporate group sums up its sea transport results for 2018.

The concept of Trade Lane Management (TLM) first appeared at AsstrA in 2015. Three years later, it has been put into practice in all the corporate group’s global locations.

The new Silk Road was one of the most discussed topics in global logistics in 2018, and it remains a focus of attention this year.

For more than 10 years, AsstrA has been transporting dangerous goods for the petrochemical industry. And in January 2018 the company formed a department dedicated to the needs of customers in this segment.

Practically any kind of cargo can be transported via less than truckload shipping. The delivery mode minimizes transport costs by using vehicle space efficiently and ensures the safety of the goods carried.

Chemical product transportation is not for amateurs. How can a chemical company know that a given logistics services provider is a responsible and qualified partner? A positive SQAS assessment is the best indicator.