ACEX Group Shared Its Professional Experience with Participants of “STL-2014”

Transportation of musical instruments for the Dutch Royal Orchestra - difficulties and solutions.

Moscow, Russia, November 19, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Alexandra Chagina, the Head of airfreight department, ACEX Group, told the participants of the conference “Logistics solutions: best practices and success stories” about one of the most interesting and challenging business-cases of ACEX Group - "Transportation of musical instruments for The Royal Dutch Symphony Orchestra during its world tour.”

The project was implemented within the framework of cooperation between international partners entering into logistics ACEX Alliance. Our partners from China, the Netherlands and Russia were engaged in this multimodal transportation.

"Storage. Transport. Logistics exhibition is mostly devoted to warehousing," comments Alexandra Chagina, "ACEX Group was the only participant to present airfreight topic and to describe step-by-step all the problems faced and the solutions offered to the customer. ACEX described the difficult procedure of cargo safety provision and weak points occurred while transportation.”

Musical instruments of the Concertgebouw, the Royal Dutch Symphony Orchestra established in 1888 are unique. Among instruments belonging to the Orchestra are the following antiques: Stradivari violin, 1713, at the cost of 1,5 million Euro; Guarneri violin, 1867, which cost is equal to 1,4 million Euro, Roger’s violoncello, 1696 – 500 thousands Euro, and others.

Special requirements imposed on cargo transportation: temperature and humidity level maintenance, special guard escort during the whole period of transportation, shipment into vehicles with hydro filter, night goods handling over at terminal and soonest possible customs clearance under ATA CARNET, special permissions issue for the orchestra’s employees to participate in night loading in Sheremetyevo.

Alexandra told about all stages and phases of the logistics cargo transportation chain between Alliance partners in different countries. Transport companies being the main participants of the conference expressed great interest in the report.

Among the participants and reporters were STS Logistics, LogLab, GEFKO Russia, etc. Professional experience of cooperation between several international companies as an example of real business case attracted interest of the conference participants and mass-media. New joint projects within the framework of ACEX Alliance are ready for implementation.

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