Oversized cargo

Covering an area of 800,000 km², Borneo is the world’s third-largest island after New Guinea and Greenland. This exotic place is more than 10,000 km away from Poland and is known for its tropical forests, orangutans and proboscis monkeys, and oil deposits.

The relocation of fleets, production and processing lines, as well as factories requires the preparation of comprehensive, multi-stage action plans.

According to the 2020 report of the Central Statistical Office of Poland, the country imported goods worth PLN 87.9 billion from China from January to August.

Growing demand for the transportation of oversized cargo is a result of global economic development and increasingly sophisticated information technology.

In the global economy, the oil and gas industry is often considered an exclusive club where entrance requires a recommendation and compliance with demanding quality standards.

Chinese ports, which continue to dominate the global shipping market, make the Chinese maritime market one of the world’s most important.

The number of cars in the world is growing rapidly every year. Global industry sales amounted to 75 million vehicles in 2019.

Oversized Transportation Department specialists completed the project in 25 days. In August 2020, the AsstrA Heavy Lift Department successfully completed a transportation project involving bulky cargo from Norrköping in Sweden to the Novy Port roadstead in Russia.

For clients, a logistics company’s membership in professional associations indicates reliability and an ability to provide services of international quality standards.

Every day, tens of thousands of vehicles operate on international highways. Occasionally, these vehicles includes convoys of trucks moving oversized, non-standard cargo like medical modules, components of petrochemical plants, and even homes.

While clientele of industrial project logistics providers place considerable importance on experience and the ability to execute complex shipments as required in the industrial sector, matters are further complicated by the Covid-19 outbreak that has impacted almost all industries. Even today, in spite of the severe restraints resulting from today’s global situation, the AsstrA Industrial Project Logistics (AIPL) team maintains daily dialogues with the company’s Customers.

The services sector is key to the entire UK economy, as it accounts for ¾ of the country’s GDP. The economy of the United Kingdom ranks 10th in the world in terms of GDP per capita at purchasing power parity.

Between their places of manufacture and end use, production line elements must often travel thousands of kilometers. In several such cases, the AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG corporate group team organized production line shipments from Asia to Poland. Janusz Bulinski, Head of the AsstrA Sea Freight Department in Gdansk, shares the details of these successful projects.

When it comes to logistics teamwork, it is important to focus upon a common goal and consistently work together to achieve results. That’s why the AsstrA corporate group emphasizes this approach both with Customers and internally. The AsstrA Industrial Project Logistics (AIPL) team in Italy cites it as a key to success.

Mankind has been building with concrete for 4,000 years, since the age of Mesopotamia. The material gained popularity in ancient Rome. To this day, the dome of the Pantheon remains the largest structure in the world made of unreinforced concrete.

What is the most expensive thing in the modern world? Gold? Diamonds? Or maybe – according to a Forbes’ ranking of valuable products – a rhino horn? In the transport and logistics industry, time is the most expensive commodity.