ASMAP

The ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL ROAD CARRIERS (ASMAP) was established in 1974. ASMAP is a non-profit organization bringing together, and working for, about 2,000 Russian enterprises and organizations concerned with international haulage of cargoes and passengers by motor vehicles.

In order to protect the interests of Russian carriers and the national market of transportation services and provide the conditions propitious to international road carriers ASMAP cooperates with Russian, foreign and international organizations, helps enterprises to organize passenger and cargo transportation, including provision of customers with legal, customs and insurance documents and officially register passports and visas.

ASMAP is a member of the International Road Transport Union (IRU), of the International Federation of Forwarding Agents; it interacts with scores of national associations of road hauliers. ASMAP took a hand in establishing the Committee for IRU liaison with the CIS Interstate Economic Committee.

The Committee on Support for Entrepreneurs in the sphere of transportation and forwarding headed by Yu.S. Sukhin functions under the Chamber of Commerce of the Russian Federation.

The ASMAP regional representative offices and representatives operate in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Riga, Kaliningrad, Yekateringburg, Kazan, Saratov, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhni Novgorod and Novosibirsk.

The training centres based in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bryansk, Omsk, Saratov, Khabarovsk, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad and Vladivostok have organized professional training of hundreds of managers and drivers working on international routes.

The Association publishes the magazines УInternational Road HaulsФ, УRolling StockФ, УAutomotive TransportФ and issues methodological literature and information bulletins.

Over the past quarter of a century ASMAP has turned into one of the most influential European international motor transport associations, is the acknowledged leader of the countryТs transportation-and-road complex and has been making substantial contribution to RussiaТs economic development.