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How easy is it to move cargo across the sky? What turbulence pockets await air freight expeditors in 2019? Karol Baranchuk, AsstrA Assistant Director of Operations for Groupage and Air Freight, has the answers.

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 European road freight market is facing a lot of changes. The Mobility Package, penalties for rest breaks in driver cabins, and a lack of professional drivers are shaping new EU road transport conditions. Where the changes will lead?

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.

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. Sometimes production starts with one piece in Japan and ends with final assembly in Austria.

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.

Defining waste is easy. According to the Polish legal Act of 14 December 2012, waste is any substance or object whose holder is or will be disposing of it or has the obligation to do so. Removing waste, however, is not so easy.

Within the framework of this project, the AsstrA corporate group transported equipment for the manufacture of plastic cards microchips from Zelenograd to Taipei.

Exotic destinations are becoming more popular – and not only for tourists. The logistics industry is also expanding towards new horizons and discovering new and extraordinary destinations.

As of August 2018, AsstrA will be working directly with such airlines as Aeroflot, AirBridgeCargo, UTair, Lufthansa, and Emirates without third-party intermediaries.

Company rankings: to participate or not to participate? Many entrepreneurs ask this question every day. Some do not believe in disclosing company data to the public and some – like those at AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG – very much do!

Recently, specialists from the AsstrA Air Transport Department successfully executed a transport project involving particularly sensitive cargo – pharmaceuticals – sent from Moscow to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. The client’s key requirement and the main condition for the safety of the shipment was to keep temperatures strictly between +10 and +25 ° C.

Every year during the Hi-Tech Supply Chain Summit, transport services providers, technology manufacturers, retailers and telecom infrastructure providers discuss the latest challenges and opportunities facing the hi-tech supply chain

We talked with experts from the international transport and logistics group AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG about the carriers selection process.

As reported by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), global cargo traffic in the first half of 2017 increased by 10.4%, the most dramatic shift in the last seven years.

"Delays at the European Union border, road inspections, bureaucracy – these complications are a regular part of transporting cargo from Poland to its east. Such factors have a negative impact on the predictability of the supply chain and the punctuality of cargo delivery. The driver needs a responsible and competent guide who will help him navigate all these challenges. And that’s what we do best," emphasizes Poland Country Manager Mariusz Borkowski.

This year the international logistics provider AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG welcomes the guests of the exhibition at its own stand E245 in the Hall of the 3rd International Exhibition Center «Crocus Expo»

AsstrA’s total turnover from the US market in 2017 amounted to approximately one million euros. By the end of 2018, the company is planning to triple its turnover there.