13.04.2022

Welcome to Rudders Sea & Air a company full of goals, ambitions, and targets to fulfil.
They are experts in finding the best paths for your business and your service requirements. For them, it’s as important as the destination is the way to get there in good time and condition.
Although young by history, it has a great team and spirit, and it’s in their DNA to offer the best, most sustainable and efficient solution in international transport.
The company’s vision is to act with agility, in a competitive and structured way, guaranteeing the trust and continuous development of all those involved in each process.
Anchored in its four solid values, courage, humanity, innovation and quality, Rudders has developed strong relationships with its clients, and carriers.
Why not give them a try on your next shipment with Santos Brazil .

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12th April 2022

We are delighted to welcome Seatrans Maritime S.A. – Bilbao Spain into the ASA family.

Let me tell you a bit about them the company was founded in 1983, Seatrans Maritime are General Freight Forwarders, handling Ocean and Airfreight and are Customs brokers, they operate Rail, and Road freight distribution. They also operate services to Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands.

They are very diversified group also acting as Liner Agents, Ships brokers and provide Stevedoring and Warehousing. They handle many shipping lines from various countries for both conventional cargos and containers, and project cargo.

Next time you have a shipment with Spain please contact Santiago and his team they would lover to hear from you.

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Dear ASA members please take time to read below and attached are the Rules on Red Alert System and how to Operate/make a report.

Firstly the Red Alert System details are all located in the ASA members directory front page. This lists all ASA members and their countries, we have now added an extra line at the end after “Mailing and Website ” Red Alert” which when a member has a red alert report against them – there will be a Red triangle with a ! inside the triangle.

I have put on an example of MTI Express Morocco,  so scroll down the directory list to MTI – Morocco and you will see the triangle on the right side.

Secondly if you now click on MTI directory page it will bring up their entry, right at the top you will see a broad RED strip with the triangle and in clear capital letters Credit suspended. so this is how a message could look, but we can put any message we want such as Note: Very slow payers etc. or some other message.

This is a simple good visual we can use and members can see at a glance if we try to add more and make it more complicated will make become more time consuming and impractical without redesigning our whole ASA website at some considerable cost..

I have also produced a simple Red Alert Reporting form for members to complete and send.  Please look at this simple draft report form. we can amend this in the future if need be.

Reporting a Red Alert: When in the ASA Directory page if you click on any ASA member it will open that members info and on the top right of the page you will see a Red menu box “Report RED ALERT” click on this and it will bring up the form to complete and send to ASA Management.

Please take a moment to play with the system and read the suggested Rules, then let me have your comments/views, before we circulate this to all members.

The rules are attached to this link

ASA Red Alert System -Rules

Many thanks & regards

Webmaster

08.02.2022

Hi All, How time flies, already we are into February, and the annual New Year is already over a month old. We also hope you all had a good Chinese New Year the year of the Tiger.

We would like to make the year of the Tiger an important year by increasing ASA’s worldwide network cover and we would like to ask for your help by nominating some new members in the following Cities/countries as we want to specifically improve our worldwide coverage in the following areas.

1. Afghanistan   2. Moscow- Russia, 3. Ukraine,  4. Kazakhstan, 5.  Turkmenistan.       6. Uzbekistan. 7. Barcelona, Madrid-Spain.

8. Bahrain. 9.  Muscat-Oman. 10 Algeria. 11  Senegal. 12. Ivory Coast. 13. Lagos-Nigeria. 14 Uganda

14. Dalian, China. 15 Cambodia. 16, Vancouver- Canada, 17. Costa Rica. 18 Panama.  19 Colombia. 20 Chile.

16. Any of the west Indies,  and Cuba.

This would make a huge difference to our numbers and much better coverage for our members, of course there are other countries also missing this is just a few to give you an idea. Please try hard to introduce at least one new agent in any of these areas.

Don’t forget you will receive a reward of E 200 for each new member you introduce and joins ASA .

Many thanks

Best regards

Robert

                                                                               Warning

Despite terminating Atlas Logistics ASA membership in 2021 for deliberate and constant payment delays to other ASA members, we have had a few instances where Atlas are still contacting ASA members requesting help in handling their shipments. Please ignore these requests as you will undoubtedly end up with long payment delays.

This agent has had its membership also cancelled by Win Logistics network for the very same reasons of very poor payment moral.

Thank you for your attention

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Aguila Cargo is a Freight Forwarder company established in Lima- Perú that provides personalized services of Logistics, Foreign Trade and International Transportation. The company was created in 2013 to provide effective and efficient services; for this purpose our staff are continuously trained and motivated to provide to its customers the best services possible.

By providing advice and logistic solutions to its customers has helped make the company achieved its goals and exceed its expectations of development.

Services provided: –

    Maritime Services for Dry and Reefer Containers, FCL & LCL

    General Cargo and Special Equipment (Flat Racks, Open Tops, and Platforms)

    Multimodal Air Service and Import/Export, Cargo Consolidation, Courier.

    Import Cargo Deconsolidation, and Customs clearance. Warehousing

    Project Cargo management. General Consulting.

    Tracy and her team would love to hear from you if you have any enquiries for any          of the above services

    gerencia@aguilacargo.com – Mrs. Tracy Trillo Pineda

    Webmaster

Dear ASA Members, recently ASA Management have spent a great deal of time helping members to recover overdue monies from Atlas Logistics Bangladesh, fortunately Atlas have been paying these very long overdue debts, all be it very slowly.

During this exercise of helping collect debts for our members, we were amazed to see that one member had advanced credit of over USD 20,000 in one month. Now I don’t know what due diligence they use in setting their credit limits but that’s awfully high to my mind for a first time transaction.

Now ASA do not want to be setting credit limits for its members

When setting credit limits you should continue to make your own credit checks, but we would suggest that you contact me on transactions of say freight costs of USD 10,000+  asking if we can give some background to the ASA member, such as number of years they have been a member, had we ever had previous complaints of delayed payments. In most cases I’m sure there will not be a credit issue as we did carry out due diligence and taking references on all members when they joined, and we do also update our bad debtors checks monthly.

Please note this is only a suggestion, you can choose to ignore this especially if you already have a good trading history with any ASA member.

Many thanks

Best regards

Robert Shelton

Chairman of the ASA Committee

We are pleased to welcome Air Focus to the ASA family.

Air Focus LLC was established in 2017 by a group of experienced and highly motivated people and since has become a well-known name for freight forwarding business in Mongolia.

They offer Air freight, Air/LCL, LCL, LTL, FCL services and also handle DGR goods, live animals, diplomatic and personal goods, food & beverage, and many export and import project shipments for Oyu Tolgoi and other gold mines.

You can count on Air Focus to carefully handle your shipments from/to Mongolia for air or ocean freight export or import.

They are looking forward to developing successful business with all members at ASA Members.

Webmaster

We welcome AFREX Congo as the latest new member to join ASA Network.

AFREX CONGO SARL Created at 2010, its head office is located in Lubumbashi (DR Congo) they also have offices in strategic cities of DR Congo such as Kinshasa, Goma, Matadi, Bunia Kisangani. They have special delivery services for the Kibali Gold mines.

Re General Cargo, they provide services for many different industries, such as automotive, food and beverage, aviation, locomotives, high tech, chemicals, oil and gas, retail support and energy .

Naturally they are project cargo experts and very knowledgeable in high value. mining and construction equipment.

Services include:

• Storage
• Distribution
• Customs clearance
• Seafreight, Airfreght and Roadfreight.

We hope you will give them a try on your shipments with DR. Congo, Arnold and his team would love to hear from you.

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