ATC at Cainiao Partners Conference

ATC Group took part in traditional annual Cainiao Smart Logistics partners conference. The forum usually precedes November sales on Alibaba platforms. It took place in Hangzhou last week. The conference brings together transport logistics and fulfillment companies, express operators, warehousing operators, customs brokers – market participants providing logistics services to the world’s largest online retail market, both intra-Chinese and international. The forum included Cainiao best partners awarding ceremony and negotiating sessions in the lead-up to the sales.

ATC was awarded the “outstanding partner” prize based on its performance during the years 2019-2020.

Commentary by the General Director of ATC China Alexey Maltsev:

This prize is not only a great honor for us, but also a recognition of those efforts we make to ensure an efficient and prompt deliveries. The package forwarding speed is of utmost importance in e-commerce logistics. We compete for each hour, as we understand that in case of prompt package delivery the recipient will be satisfied and will return with new orders. Therefore we will be provided with necessary volumes. This is our primary motivation. For example, the average delivery speed of a mail piece from China to Moscow was 80 hours in March and 33 hours in September. We have developed a charter program to ensure this timeframe. Flights with packages departure from Hong Kong to Moscow on a daily basis.

As for the conference, Cainiao announced that they were ambitious to arrange an effective global packages delivery network. The project implementation period is 3 years. ATC is closely cooperated with Chinese partners in this project. Our geographic footprint is Russia and CIS.

Within the negotiating block we discussed the details of interaction during the peak period of exporting large amounts of packages after the November 11 sales. The parcels start to arrive to the main routes on November 13-14, and we operate under maximum pressure until the end of November – beginning of December. We developed a charter program in order to provide necessary capacities. 2-3 cargo flights will departure from Hong Kong to Moscow on a daily basis. Moreover, we have a separate flight program for exporting packages to Ukraine. In November, we plan to perform at least 50 cargo charter flights in total.