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Would New Silk Road cargo flows significantly increase if Russia lifted the embargo and result in less traffic between Europe and China? It depends.

Container transport by rail is the most dynamically developing branch of logistics. The railroad linking the Far East and Europe and comprising part of the New Silk Road is an alternative to sea and air transport from China and is reshaping the nature of import and export. Currently, rail has completely replaced air and sea as the preferred transport mode from the Far East to Europe.

Customs support is an integral part of AsstrA’s comprehensive service offerings. The company’s eight in-house customs agencies work with clients to handle all official paperwork and ensure that their shipments arrive on time with no unnecessary costs.

In cargo transportation, there are four “whale” modes: road, air, sea and rail. Which whale is the biggest and most reliable? To answer, we have prepared a series of interviews on intra-European transport. In the first installment, we discuss railway deliveries with Eva Trohimyuk, Head of the European Rail Department at logistics company AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG.

Today, how process automation may cause people to be laid off and how robots can take over human responsibilities are hot topics. Automation plans are also affecting the TSL industry. Are there serious reasons for concern? Will automation be a job killer?

Northwest Africa produces over 70% of the world’s cocoa. The main exporters are Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. According to information from the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), 90 percent of this cocoa is grown on small family plantations that have been passed down from generation to generation. Most of the workers on these plantations have never actually tried the chocolate that is available practically everywhere food is sold in Europe.

Sea freight container shipping offers the most carrying capacity at the lowest costs over long distances, even from one continent to another. Clients of the AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG international transportation and logistics corporate group benefit from comprehensive services around containerized sea freight from Italy to the United States. The process includes five steps that AsstrA makes easy for Customers.

For more than 10 years, AsstrA Heavy Lift specialists have provided comprehensive services involving the transport and logistics of oversized and heavy loads. A Client from the wood industry relied on AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG’s holistic services to help transport woodworking lines from Luxembourg to Ukraine. The AsstrA Heavy Lift Department coordinated the entire project. The delivery process took three months. During this time, 450 loads were shipped. The total weight of all loads amounted to nearly 8,000 tons.

Transports to and from China are becoming more and more popular among Clients of the AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG international transportation and logistics corporate group. Partners from various industries use AsstrA's holistic approach to handling cargo transportation to / from China. The corporate group offers comprehensive services including container bookings and road transport organized via the Gdańsk and Poznań branch offices, respectively. Janusz Buliński, Head of Sea Freight at AsstrA in Gdańsk, talks about the details of several projects the team has implemented.

Project logistics has become an integral part of AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG’s business. Several German-speaking companies regularly rely on the transport and logistics services provider for support in this area. The main destinations of these shipments are Russia, Central Asia, and China.

The AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG corporate group sums up its results for the first half of 2019. The corporate group’s turnover for the first 6 months of 2019 amounted to 160 million euros, which is 23% more than in the same period of 2018. From January to June, the company's specialists processed 76,500 orders. The weight of transported goods increased by 44% compared to the first half of 2018 and amounted to 1.9 million tons. During this period AsstrA brought 1,492 new clients onboard.

The AsstrA transportation and logistics corporate group recently became involved in significant investments by transporting three passenger casrs from Fanipol, Belarus, to Berlin, Germany.

One of the 21st century’s key trends is the growth of automation and robotics in all spheres of human activity. Economic development is increasingly based not on capital and natural resources but rather on innovations and creative solutions.

So far more than 100 transport partners have purchased over 30 million euros worth of fuel in the program, which is available in 32 countries.

Emotions or rules? What drives tender selection processes in the B2B sector? Can purchases through tenders protect against emotions and help follow the rules when choosing a logistics partner?

On June 30, 2019, the 30th International White Nights Marathon was held in St. Petersburg. Among the thousands of runners was a team in tangerine T-shirts from the AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG international transportation and logistics corporate group.

This charity run was held under the auspices of BPS Sberbank this past June in the center of Brest, Belarus. The event’s program also included children's runs celebrating International Children's Day.

At first sight, the transportation and logistics industry may seem like it is strictly men’s work. However, statistics show that women also account for a significant portion of this sector. Is working in the TSL industry a tough nut to crack for women?

Warsaw, May 29, 2019: AsstrA, an international transportation and logistics corporate group, has chosen Shippeo, the European leader in supply chain visibility, to provide their customers with a real-time and predictive end-to-end vision of all their transportation operations.

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