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.

Webmaster

We are very pleased to announce EDLS Services Srl in Douala, Cameroon has joined ASA Network, they have an experienced professional team providing comprehensive logistics services for all types of transport and logistics services within Central Africa (Cameroon & Chad & Central African Republic). The team of highly experienced freight forwarders committed to deliver your cargo securely and in a timely manner.

They come with several references from multinational companies and are used to offering tailor made dedicated customized services to meet their clients’ requirements as they believe – THE CUSTOMER IS KING.

Main Services; Ocean / Air freight / Road / Railway / Customs Clearance

Specialised Services; Dangerous goods / OOG / Perishable goods transport / bulk cargo, heavy duty freight / Project management

Trucking within Cameroon / Chad / Central African Republic

We hope Victor and his team will quickly get to work with ASA members in the very near future, and if you have any requirements for shipping to or from the Cameroon you will give EDLS Services a call.

Webmaster

We take this opportunity to welcome Apple Logistics Ltd. Nairobi, Kenya to the ASA worldwide family

Established in 2010 Apple Logistics is well versed in the art of handling all kinds of import customs clearances.

They handle customs regulations and schedules including-general cargo-handling, customs. Documents appraisement and tackling regulations related to customs procedures for Inbound and outbound shipments.

Their experienced import/export team keeps abreast of every legal development as well as changes in administrative procedures and constant new regulations.

Let Apple Logistics take the weight off your shoulders, and help you with your next shipments to or from Kenya take a moment to send Emmanuel and his team your details and they will be in touch.

Best regards

Webmaster

We welcome UBI Logistics – Shanghai to our ASA Family.

Established in 1991 with a registered capital of USD4 million, UBI Logistics (China) Limited is licensed by the Ministry of Commerce of PRC, the Customs Bureau of PRC, General Administration of Civil Aviation of PRC and Ministry of Communication of PRC as a Class A licensed Freight Forwarder, Customs Broker, and Class A Sales Agent for airlines and NVOCC in China.

UBI Shanghai specializes in import and export services for air, ocean, road and rail transportation, E-commerce biz ranging from freight canvassing, chartering, booking, customs brokerage, transshipment, warehousing, insurance, B/L issuance, container stuffing and un-stuffing as well as other related logistics services.

Next time you have a shipment to or from Shanghai please consider to give UBI a try they are very keen to hear from you.

Many thanks

Best regards

Webmaster

We welcome Navico Shipping – Skopje to the ASA Family.

Navico has been established as a shipping and forwarding agent for more than 20 years offering its services to over 2000 clients, some of which are listed in the Fortune 500 list. They are amongst the highest ranking transport companies in Macedonia, excluding any major Multinational agents.

They have two container depots in Skopje and Gevgelija and are the official depots for shipping lines including: MAERSK, ZIM, CMA, COSCO, HAPAG LLOYD, and EVERGREEN, for whom they also offer their services for door to door delivery and drop off of empties and storing empties. Navico also has a large fleet of its own container trucks.

Navico are not just handling ocean freight but are also extremely active in airfreight imports and exports and Customs.

Please introduce yourselves to Kiril and his team they would love to hear from you.

Webmaster

We are delighted to announce MG International has joined its assocaite company in Baghdad Iraq under its trading name of Halaet Al- Hilal Ltd.

Since 2009 MGI has operated its own legal entity in Iraq with offices in Baghdad, under the name of Halet Al Hilal Ltd. We offer a professional infrastructure in IRAQ with highly skilled local and international staff.

“Last mile” deliveries are usually critical and important at the same time. They are offering reliable logistic solutions for the overall supply route from various countries abroad to the Iraqi end-users venue.

Their tailor-made logistics concepts covers logistic solutions by airfreight, truck shipments and sea-freight as well as concepts for door-to-door shipments incl. packaging and marine cargo insurance.

Also they are offering dedicated solutions for e.g. the following sectors: Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Infrastructure, Telecommunication, Power generation, Power distribution and Supplies as well as dedicated concepts for EPC Projects.

Please do not hesitate to contact Otto Thorsten for further information.

At last we have a safe platform for trading in this area, key contact is Otto (MGI) in Germany who most of you already know as a reliable partner.

Webmaster.

08.10.2020

We are pleased to introduce and welcome Euromarine SRL as our latest new ASA family member. Located in the North of Italy, Genoa, Euromarine provide First Class services for Ocean- Air and Road freight.

Although they are a General freight forwarder and Customs broker they also have some Speciality services such as – Ships Spares with a 24/7 call out service. They also Specialise in providing full logistics services to the Resort and Hotel industry.

Dangerous Cargo is another area they enjoy a good reputation in providing services for both air and ocean consignments.

Thanks to GICS “Global Inventory Control System” their customers have online real-time tracking information about all orders and deliveries anywhere in the world and shipments can be traced with just a click of a mouse.

Please welcome Danilo and his team to our growing family.

Many thanks

Webmaster.