FMN Logistics Launches Additional Service Offerings on Inbound KKT Routes

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- FMN Logistics today released an updated offering of inbound freight forwarding services on the Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan (KKT) route, adding to its already substantial inbound and reverse KKT services for US and ISAF Forces operating in Afghanistan.

The expanded service offerings include the ability to move 20 and 40 foot containers, as well as out of gauge shipments on low-bed trailers from Bishkek's Alamedin Rail Station to the Tajikistan-Afghanistan Border at Sherkhan-Bandar. FMN additionally arranges all transit customs formalities and escorts for all shipments from Bishkek up to the Afghan border.

To implement these amplified service offerings, FMN has added capacity and personnel all along its KKT routing corridor from Bishkek Alamedin to Sherkhan Bandar. "This was about us listening to our customers' demands for alternative routings to the heavily trafficked Uzbekistan GLOC, and looking at the bigger picture throughout the region," said Dave O'Connor, FMN's Chief Operating Officer. "We believe the demand for western level service on the KKT is only going to increase and FMN Logistics is on the ground meeting that demand with the most experienced staff and fastest transit times in the business."

All trucking / handling rates based on local standard equipment that has passed basic operation and HSE audits by FMN, and is equipped with all regulatory paperwork and permits required by the laws of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

About FMN Logistics

FMN Logistics is a specialist freight forwarding and logistics service provider with headquarters in Washington, DC and operations throughout Central Asia and the Middle East. In 2010, FMN delivered more than 2,500 cargo containers to Afghanistan for US and ISAF forces and today FMN currently transports approximately 200 containers a month along the NDN into Afghanistan for each of the Prime Vendors operating in Afghanistan.  FMN is also the largest volume logistics service provider in Central Asia for Operation Enduring Freedom.

FMN is an approved carrier in the Global Freight Management (GFM) program operated by the US Military's Surface Deployment and Distribution Command's (SDDC) Freight Carrier Registration Program (FCRP) for operations in the Afghanistan Area of Responsibility (AOR).

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