It is widely believed that the freight forwarding organizations activity causes considerable damage to the environment. AsstrA Group of companies minimizes this damage by the assumption of the obligations of the environment pollution prevention. We fully appreciate that the natural resources are limited, and we do our best to preserve them for the future generations. We set the following tasks:

• to reduce the harmful emissions such as nitric oxide, carbonic and other gases, hard waste, and also reduce noise pollution, arising from the use of transport;
• to reduce the consumption of energy, raw materials and substances.

The basic principles of the environmental protection activity

1. Work and life without any damage to the nature

This is to be achieved by application of modern technologies and products as well as by investments in transport that comply with the latest EU environmental requirements. Our company has a fleet of modern ecologically clean Scania trucks that meet EU’s Euro 3 standard.

Our drivers’ professional training and high level of servicing assists the company not to cause damage to the environment.  We arrange transportation of hazardous materials only according to all the environmental norms, recruit the qualified and professionally trained staff.

We establish strict control over the resources use, including the energy consumption in our everyday activity. Every employee bears personal responsibility for the ecologically incorrect behavior at the working place.

2. Efficient transport solutions

Preliminary route planning, continuous monitoring of the vehicle technical condition together with optimum driving techniques help to obtain maximum efficient use of a vehicle and minimal fuel consumption. This leads to the reduction of the environmental pollution level and higher road traffic safety.

3. Compliance with environmental requirements while purchasing

One of the most important quality aspects of the services, raw materials, substances, equipment and vehicles we purchase, is the minimal harm to the environment. 

4. Environmental educational programs

Our purpose is to teach every employee to behave in the ecologically correct way. We improve the standard of the environmental knowledge of the employees on environmental problems and its management system by realizing the educational programs and continually inform all the employees.

All the company drivers have to attend a special obligatory course on economic and ecological truck driving that helps to save fuel and to handle their trucks in a right way.

5. Environmental information availability

We increase the confidence level to our company among the customers, business partners, public organizations, government authorities, controlling and supervisory organs and population trough open coordination with them. We inform all the interested parties about our intentions, efforts and achievements in the sphere of environmental protection.

6. Compliance with the requirements and continual improvement

We are working in compliance with the current legislation and environmental protection requirements that exist in the countries of the company’s presence. AsstrA quality management system has been certified as it meets ISO 9001:2000 requirements. ISO 14001:2004 requirements are integrated into the quality management system. It gives us the perfect opportunity for continuous improvement of all the spheres of our activity.