ACE Forwarding Caspian is acting as General Agents for Lufthansa, British Mediterranean, Austrian Airlines and Azal airlines, booking general cargo and household goods shipments out of the Former Soviet Union and Caucasus regions to various destinations all over the world. We have a trucking division in UK for full truckloads and LTL shipments from Europe to any destination in Caucasus region as well as Russia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia. ACE Forwarding Caspian specializes in freight brokerage by rail and sea (through Baku port, Azerbaijan and Poti port, Georgia) from any origin point in our area of operations to all destinations on the world map, providing pre-haulage, loading / unloading, terminal handling, documentation assistance and other services. We work in close cooperation with Maersk Sealand, Evergreen, P&O, CMN, MSC, CMA and their port agents.

• Airfreight
• Customs Agency & Brokerage
• Rail Opportunities
• Road Haulage
• Vessel Agency and Chartering
• Warehousing & Distribution
• Project Logistics / Heavy Loads

Agency, Courier and Chartering services are offered by many of the ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN offices, a number of which are strategically located at airport facilities.

Services include:

Receiving facilities

Prepare Documentation

Check Export/Import licenses

Check Packing Certificate for Dangerous/Hazardous cargo

Arrange carriage and book space

Arrange Insurance

Trace Movement of Freight

Consultancy

• Rates
• Routes

Consolidation

Customs Clearance

Containerisation

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN offers full Customs Clearance and Brokering services, both under its own Customs Agents Licenses and by using sub contractor services.

• Import Customs Clearance
• Export Customs Clearance
• Customs Law & Regulations
• Tariff Classification System
• Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
• Valuations
• Warehousing - Bonded Storage Entries
• Temporary Imports
• Exemption, Remission, Refund of Duty and Duty Drawback
• Customs Conventions
• Customs Convention on the International Carriage of Goods under the cover of TIR Carnet

The Commonwealth of Independent States is beginning to provide what will be enormous opportunities and challenges for companies wishing to do business in this part of the world. ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN has developed early and has the proven experience of 7 years supporting the oil & gas industry and achieving levels of excellence within this difficult operating environment.

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN has also shown to be extremely innovative in solving problems where a mix of western expertise and local knowledge and connections is the only way to achieve the desired outcome.

Rail is the proven answer to moving cargo, on a scheduled, tracked and expedited service, long distances, all year round at competitive rates.

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN are the key in being able to do this in a manner that is acceptable to today's standards and provides the level of service and comfort expected by western clients.

Combining ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN rail expertise with in house Customs and Road Haulage capability enables ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN to offer an integrated, Intermodal door-to-door service within the FSU.

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN operates its own fleet of trucks in the Caucasus and also manages a number of Owner/Drivers.

Services are offered to all areas of the FSU at very competitive rates.
Security is provided where required and ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN advises clients with regard to routing, risks and any special local conditions.

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN have a good working knowledge of the Convention on Contract for International Carriage by Road (CMR) and work regularly with many large International Road Haulage companies.

Services

• Terminals
• Routes/Restrictions
• Service Centres
• Reporting
• Tracking
• Documentation
• Rates
• Groupage
• Hazardous / Dangerous Goods Handling
• Oversize
  

Vessel Agency Services are offered at:

Baku
Aktau
Odessa
Astrakhan
Turkmenbashi
Poti
Batumi
Mariupol
Novorossisk

Chartering Services are handled through Baku Head Office

Services include:

• Documentation
• Equipment arrangements
• Freight Rates
• Cargo Claims
• Cargo Stowage/Protection
• Containers supply / handling
• Customs Clearance
• Quarantine Clearance
• Immigration Clearance
  

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN Philosophy is to provide clients with the Total Management of Freight including:

• Consolidation
• De-Consolidation
• Trucking
• Packing, Palletising & Shrink-wrapping
• Marking & Labelling
• Container Packing
• Warehousing
• Dangerous & Hazardous goods handling
• Distribution
• Storage
• Empty container storage and cleaning

The Quality Management System being implemented throughout the ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN organisation is also the cornerstone of all procedures and processes being developed for the new warehousing and distribution services being offered.

Future Developments

Computerised warehouse inventory systems are being evaluated and will be implemented by middle of 2002.

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN clients will be able to access ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN website and retrieve real time data on the inventory status of their products being handled through the ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN Warehousing & Distribution system.

The Caspian Sea region is important to world markets because it has large oil and gas reserves that are only now beginning to be fully developed. ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN has over 6 years of experience handling and transporting large quantity of freight and over-size equipment to the Caucasus and Central Asia regions. Developing these resources has resulted in large quantity of freight and over-size equipment been transported into these regions.

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN has over 6 years of experience in project and heavy lift transportation. Been amount the top project logistics company within this region ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN is the first choice for fast, clear and effective results, when it comes to Project Logistics. The Caspian Sea is 700 miles long and contains six separate hydrocarbon basins. Central Asian Republics are also known as Eurasia because of its uniquie geopraphcal location between Europe and Asia. Size wise Central Asia and Caucasion Republics are bigger then Europe.

ACE FORWARDING CASPIAN has the following added values to insure a quality results and time effeciency, when handling and transporting project and heavy lift equipment in the Caucasus and Central Asia regions:

• Market know how
• Area know how
• Language know how
• Legal system know how
• Social system know how
• Experianced and knowledgeable
• Existing client base
• Existing sales & marketing stretagy
• Political contacts
• Cost effective operation due to resonable market experience