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A global supplier for the oil and gas industry engaged Agility to ship several exchange heaters from Brasov, Romania, to Vladivostok, Russia. We needed special equipment to handle 36 items of various dimensions. After calculating the best options for cost and transit time, we decided to use a 10’ x 40’ flat rack and 6’ x 40’ dry van containers. We hit a snag when shipping lines did not accept one item filled with nitrogen, so we emptied the container by releasing nitrogen gas into the atmosphere. We continued trucking the rest of the loads more than 10,000 kilometers from a Brasov warehouse to the Port of Constanta on the Black Sea. We secured the cargo, handled customs and completed our successful shipment to Russia.

For a U.S. manufacturer of medium-sized and heavy trucks and diesel engines, it’s critical to operate an uninterrupted production line. A production stoppage can cost $9 million a day. Agility ensures that doesn’t happen by providing a 365-day 24/7 on-board courier service for urgent orders of truck and engine parts. When the Agility office in Stuttgart, Germany, received an urgent order for parts late one night, it got them from Romania, transported them to Germany, and put them on a passenger flight that day using an on-board courier service. The parts were delivered the following morning, on time. Agility also manages the company’s European procurement and export operations.

​An Indian pharmaceutical maker partnered with Agility to break into the highly competitive European market. Agility provides temperature-controlled warehousing for this customer in Hyderabad and manages its exports and ocean freight from India to the United Kingdom, Spain, Romania and the United States. Agility designed processes that helped this customer obtain critical certification required to move sensitive cargo.​