Gosselin Kazachstan TOO has offices in Almaty and Astana. Our office in Almaty has been changed from a representative office (since 1992) to an LLP in 2012. It serves as the key office for logistics in the Central-Asian region, covering Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan – where Gosselin has also offices.
As these countries are landlocked parts of the world ( Almaty is minimum >2500 km from any seaport located) logistics is a very challenging fact and due to the imbalance of import&export there are only few shipping-lines serving the region. For many years we have countered this imbalance by providing our own equipment (shipper’s owned containers) This gives us a competitive advantage over shipping-lines on a lot of routings.
The main transport mode is SEA + RAIL – There are various routings possible. The most common are Riga (or other Baltic ports), Qingdao in China and Poti in Georgia…Bandar-Abbas and others are opening also further.
Trucking – Airfreight and Project shipments (both via railway platforms as oversized trucks) are important activities for our office.