YOUR PRIVATE LOGISTIC PARTNER SINCE 1995

About us Russian company specializes in transportations of the industrial project cargo, including heavy-lift, over-sized and long equipment by all means of transport. The company offers freight-forwarding services in Russian Federation and worldwide in the frames of construction / modernization projects of energy, oil and gas (upstream / downstream), petrochemical, construction, mining and other industries. Many years' experience enables BEDFORD GROUP to plan and execute the most challenging transport-logistics tasks, acting as the general logistics operator for the client, offering complete service on a «turn-key» basis. To meet the client’s needs, beside transportation, cargo-handling and customs services, the company offers additional services, such as insurance, certification, signing and execution of the delivery contracts and more. BEDFORD GROUP LLC is a certified representative of the Federal Customs Services of the Russian Federation, member of the Freight Forwarders Association of the Russian Federation (FAR), member of the Baltic and International Maritime Conference (BIMCO), International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA). The company certified according to the requirements for a quality management system of ISO 9001:2008. The company practices the individual approach to every client, being the reliable and confided partner of the client, which protects first and foremost the client’s aims and interests.

Services

Transportation BEDFORD GROUP organizes transportations of general cargo, including break-bulk, heavy lift and oversize cargo, different types of containers by sea, river, auto, rail and air transport. Customs clearance As the official customs representative, the Company organizes customs registration with optimization of payments. Adapts technical specifications on the equipment and an essence of technological processes for customs authorities. Assists in obtaining classification decisions of FCS of Russia with preliminary preparation of shipping documents. Cargo handling BEDFORD GROUP within complex service provides services in installation and assembly of heavy processing equipment weighing up to 3000 tons on the basis of universal practice, unique development, own experience, using the checked partners, owners of the crane and lifting equipment. Procurement At the request of clients, using the qualified employees and third-party experts, the Company as the external economic partner agent signs contracts, places orders, carries out customs registration and delivers to customers or their buyers for territories of the Russian Federation and the CIS goods and the equipment of foreign production. Consulting BEDFORD GROUP offers consultations concerning the conclusion of trade and deliverable contracts foreign trade activities, on registration of transport, allowing and commercial documents. Helps with an assessment of enterprise risks and performs calculations of efficiency of transactions, budgeting of logistic expenses and customs payments. Insurance On the terms of clients the Company organizes insurance of freights upon any risks, using reliable insurance companies, experts and emergency commissioners-surveyors. Processes documents according to rules of law, helps with claims activities, avoiding possible financial losses and enterprise risks. Extra services BEDFORD GROUP organizes secure storage, guarding and protection of cargo. Provides the accompanying complex services in certification of the goods, registration of allowing documents, control weighing, correction of the marking, packing, manufacturing of the cargo support bed, additional rigging equipment and other equipment for transportation.

Business experience

Business experience in the World

Offices and branches

Temporary representative offices within recent projects

Projects

“Jaraktinskoe” oil/gas-condensate field development, Irkutsk Region, Russia. Route: Houston (USA) – St. Petersburg (Russia) – Ust Kut, Irkutsk Region, Russia . Cargo: 3 complete sets of compressor equipment with components. Dimensions: 3 compressors – 12,3m х 4,5m х 3,6m/ 56mt; 6 engines – 5,6m х 2,4m х 3,2м / 21mt. Shipper: “EXTERRAN SOLUTIONS” (USA). Services: containers purchasing, auto transportation, sea freight, cargo handling, customs clearance, rail transportation, auto transportation by winter roads (temporary highways carved out of snow and ice). Transportation period: 2013.

Central processing platform, “Vladimir Filanovsky” Offshore Oilfield, Caspian Sea, Russia. Route: from sites of factories in UAE, Italy, France, UK, USA – Novorossiysk (Russia) – Astrakhan. Cargo: complete sets of crude oil processing facilities, produced water process units, compressors with components and other equipment. Total volume: 20 000m3, including 4 units of heavy-lift/oversized modules, weighing 200mt each. Services: obtaining 3 sets of customs classification decision at Federal Customs Service of Russia, sea and river freight, cargo handling, customs clearance. Transportation period: 05.2013 – 04.2014.

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Oil and gas equipment to Vietnam. Route: Ekaterinburg (Russia) – Saint-Petersburg (Russia) – Vung Tau (Vietnam). Cargo: Oil and gas equipment. Total volume : 620 freight tons. Shipper : JSC “OMZ ” (Russia). Services : rail transportation, customs clearance, cargo handling, sea freight. Transportation period: 08.2002-09.2002.

“Yali” Hydro Power Plant (720 Mwe) construction, Vietnam. Route: Odessa (Ukraine) – Quy Nhơn (Vietnam). Cargo: various metal structures, including water-gate parts. Total volume: 860 freight tons. Dimensions of metal structures: 15m х 2,3m х 3,5m / 32mt. Shipper: “UkrInterEnergo”. Services: sea freight, cargo handling, auto transportation. Transportation period: 06.1997 – 09.1997.

Projects

“Kurkaja” Nuclear Power Plant (4000 Mwe) modernization, Russia. Route: Kurchatov (Kursk Region, Russia) – St. Petersburg (Russia). Cargo: stator of turbine-generator “ТВВ-320” with components. Dimensions of the stator: 10,79m х 4,3m х 4.3m / 65mt. Shipper: OJSC “Concern Rosenergoatom” (Russia). Services: preparation of the road at the territory of the plant, obtaining of over-sized/heavy lift transportation permit, auto transportation. Transportation period: 10.2010.

“Leningradskaja-2” Nuclear Power Plant (4340 Mwe) construction, Russia. Route: St. Petersburg (Russia) – Sosnovyj Bor (Leningrad Region, Russia). Cargo: stator of turbine-generator “ТВВ-1200”. Dimensions of the stator: 11m х 4,7m х 4,7m / 440 mt. Shipper: OJSC “POWER MACHINES” (Russia). Services: preparation and expansion of the road at the territory of the plant, construction of the temporary storage, rail transportation by the unique 32-axel rail transporter of 600 mt load-carrying capacity, cargo handling by frame-type crane system of 1 100mt lift capacity, auto transportation by multi-axle modules. Transportation period: 11.2013.

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Petrochemical plant construction, Tatarstan, Russia. Route: Morshansk (Tambov Region, Russia) – Nizhnekamsk (Tatarstan, Russia). Cargo: fuel bunkers, crude oil tanks and other petrochemical equipment. Total volume: 4 326 m3. Total quantity: 8 units. Dimensions of the bunker: 20m х 5,2m х 5,2m / 85mt. Shipper: “MORSHANSKHIMMASH” OJSC , Russia. Services: sea and river freight, cargo handling. Transportation period: 2002.

Construction of “Prirazlomnaja” Offshore ice-resistant fixed platform, Pechora Sea , Russia. Route: Norwich (UK), Dubai (UAE), Houston (USA), Letre (France) – Severodvinsk (Arkhangelsk Region, Russia). Cargo: oil and gas equipment with components. Total volume: 1100m3. Dimensions of the burner boom: 12,19m х 2,43m х 2,59m / 31mt. Shippers: "H.Lorimer Co", "DPIR" and others. Services: packing, auto transportation, sea freight, cargo handling, customs clearance, rail transportation. Transportation period: 2009.

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“Zhiguli” Hydroelectric Power Plant (2372.5 Mwe) modernization, Russia. Route: Bucharest (Romania) – Kiel (Germany) – St. Petersburg (Russia). Cargo: runner hub. Total quantity: 8 units. Dimension: 6,00m х 6,00m х 3,45m / 83mt. Shipper: “DOOSAN IMGB”. Services: auto transportation, sea freight, cargo handling. Transportation period: 05.2011 – 08.2011.

“Kozloduy” Nuclear Power Plant (2000 Mwe) modernization, Bulgaria. Route: St. Petersburg (Russia) – Kozloduy (Bulgaria). Cargo: rotor and stator of turbine-generator with components. Total volume: 751m3. Dimensions: Rotor: 14,4m х 2,42m x 2,44m / 169 mt Stator: 9,49m х 4,28m х 4,93m / 371mt. Shipper: State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” (Russia). Services: rail transportation by the unique 32-axel rail transporter of 600 mt load-carrying capacity, cargo handling, sea and river freight, construction of the unique frame-type crane system for cargo handling in Bulgaria. Transportation period: 2014.

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Delivery of the transformer to Kyrgyzstan. Route: Zaporozhye (Ukraine) – Frunze (Kyrgyzstan). Cargo: transformers with components. Weight: 125 mt. Shipper: PJSC «Zaporozhtransformator» (Ukraine). Services: rail transportation, customs clearance. Transportation period: 01.2000.

Delivery of the transformer to Ukraine. Route: St. Petersburg (Russia) – Zaporozhye (Ukraine). Cargo: transformers. Weight: 336 mt. Shipper: OJSC “POWER MACHINES” (Russia). Services: rail transportation, customs clearance. Transportation period: 2001.

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Modernization of “Tuapsinskij” oil refinery plant (“ROSNEFT ” OJSC), Krasnodar Krai, Tuapse, Russia . Route: Mörfelden-Walldorf, Grimma (Germany), Marghera (Italy), San Biagio di Callalta (Italy) – Krasnodar Krai, Tuapse (Russia). Cargo: 2 sets of oil dehydration processing facilities with components. Total volume:722 m3. Dimensions of dehydration units: 17,42m х 3,85m х 4,33m / 56mt. Shipper: “PETRECO INTERNATIONAL LTD”. Services: sea freight, cargo handling, customs clearance. Transportation period: 2010.

“Jaraktinskoe” oil/gas-condensate field development, Irkutsk Region, Russia. Route: Houston (USA) – St. Petersburg (Russia) – “Lena” rail station, Irkutsk Region, Russia. Cargo: complete set of crude oil processing facilities – heater treater – with components. Total volume:1170 m3. Dimensions of preliminary water removal unit: 15,2m х 3,2m х 3,6m / 41mt. Shipper: "SIVALLS". Services: cargo handling в portу, sea freight, customs clearance. Transportation period: November 2013.

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“Juzhnoe Shapkino” oil and gas field development, Komi Republic, Russia. Route: Calgary (Canada), Manchester (UK), Italy – Usinsk (Komi Republic, Russia). Cargo: various oil and gas equipment. Dimensions of the main modules: 13,7m х 2,1m х 3,9 m / 12,7 mt. Services: air freight by the heaviest cargo plane – “AN-124” (“Ruslan”), reconciliation of the cargo plane landing on the short flight strip at the Usinsk airport, organization of the additional strip preparations procedures, cargo handling, auto transportation by winter roads (temporary highways carved out of snow and ice). Transportation period: 03.2003 – 02.2004.

“Sakhalin-2” Project. Development of onshore processing facility (OPF), Nabil'skiy bay, Sakhalin island. Route: Rybinsk (Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia) – Nysh / Nogliki / Katangli rail stations (Sakhalin island). Cargo: pre-fabricated accommodation units for field camp workers. Total quantity: 125 pieces. Shipper: "ENKA" (Turkey). Services: rail transportation, cargo handling, sea freight. Transportation period: 06.2003 – 07.2003.

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“Usa” oilfield development, Komi Republic, Russia. Route: Calgary (Canada) – Houston (USA) – St. Petersburg (Russia) – Usinsk (Komi Republic, Russia). Cargo: 2 complete sets of crude oil processing facility. Total volume: 2 080 m3, including 2 dehydrator units and 2 desalter units. Dimensions: 20,79m х 3,9m х 3,9m / 43 mt. Shipper: “AKER SOLUTIONS” (Canada). Services: obtaining customs classification decision at Federal Customs Service of Russia, sea freight, customs clearance, cargo handling, rail transportation. Transportation period: 12.2008 – 07.2009.

“Usa” oilfield development, Komi Republic, Russia. Route: Niederndodeleben (Germany) – St. Petersburg (Russia) – Usinsk (Komi Republic, Russia). Cargo: section isolation valves and flanges. Total weight: 317,98 mt. Shipper: “PROVALVE Armaturen GmbH & Co.KG”. Services: auto transportation, cargo handling, customs clearance, rail transportation. Transportation period: 2007 – 2008.

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Construction of NPP «Belene», Bulgaria. Route: Reni (Ukraine) – Belene (mooring area Dunai river, Bulgaria). Cargo: 4 potential transformers. Dimensions of main body: 14 m х 4 m х 4,5 m / 250 mt. Total weight : 1 000 mt. Shipper: PJSC «Zaporozhtransformator» (Ukraine). Services : analysis of the route, rail transportation, customs clearance, cargo handling, river freight. Transportation period: 1996.

Reconstruction of “Sayano-Shushenskaya” hydroelectric power plant, Republic of Khakassia, Russia Route: St. Petersburg – Cheryomushki, Republic of Khakassia (Russia). Cargo: hydroelectric generating set. Total weight: 850 mt. Dimensions of main body: 4,6m х 4,6m х 2,7m / 59 mt. Shipper: OJSC “POWER MACHINES” (Russia). Services: obtaining of over-sized/heavy lift transportation permit, auto and rail transportation. Transportation period: 06.2010.

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“Etelebou” gas-turbine power plant Construction, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Route: St. Petersburg (Russia) – port St. Petersburg – port Antwerp (Belgium) – port Onne (Nigeria). Cargo: metalclad substation (main switchgear). Total volume: 249 m3. Total weight: 48 mt. Shipper: «Research and Production Center “ALLIANS-ELECTRA” LLC . Services: auto transportation, export customs clearance, cargo handling, sea freight. Transportation period: 12.2011 – 02.2012.

“Etelebou” gas-turbine power plant Construction, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Route: St. Petersburg (Russia) – port Antwerp (Belgium) – port Onne (Nigeria). Cargo: Complete sets of gas generator and fuel mixture washing station. Total volume: 45 m3. Total weight: 7, 45 mt. Shipper: “Gas-Turbine Engineering Research and Production Center “Salut”. Services: export customs clearance, cargo handling, sea freight. Transportation period: 06.2010 – 07.2010 .

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“Central'naja” Thermal Power Plant construction, Russkij island, Sea of Japan, Russia. Route: Kobe port (Japan) – Vladivostok port (Russia) – Russkij island (Russia). Cargo: “GPB70D” complete gas-turbine sets. Total volume: 1 120 m3, including 3 generators. Total weight: 240mt. Dimensions of the generator: 11,5m х 3,35m х 3,9m / 55mt. Shipper: “KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES”. Services: sea freight, cargo handling, auto transportation, import customs clearance. Transportation period: 2011.

“Uong Bi” Thermal Power Plant (300 Mwe) construction, Vietnam. Cargo: complete sets of energy equipment. Total volume: 47 200 m3, including units with the following dimensions: steam generator – 25m х 2m х 2м / 200mt, drum – 5m х 4m / 100mt, generator – 3m х 4m / 200mt, beams – 25m*2,4m*3,5m / 80mt. Shippers: plants in West Europe countries, and also Russia, Ukraine, South Korea, Japan, USA. Services: sea and river freight, auto, rail and air transportations, customs clearance, construction of the specialized ramp for “ro/ro” vessel unloading. Transportation period: 2004 – 2006 .

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“Vostochno-Tarkosalinskoe” oil and gas field development, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Russia. Route: Broken Arrow (USA) – Houston (USA) – St. Petersburg (Russia) – Purovsk (Russia). Cargo: 2 complete compressor sets with components. Total volume: 2 200m3, total weight: 457 mt. Dimensions: 6,0m х 3,0m х 3,0m / 41mt. Shipper: “AG Overseas” (USA). Services: sea freight, cargo handling, auto and rail transportation, import customs clearance. Transportation periods: 1st shipment: February – April 2014; 2nd shipment: June – September 2014.

Equipment for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland. Route: Kimry (Tver Oblast, Russia) – Protvino (Moscow region, Russia) – CERN (Switzerland). Cargo: energy equipment. Total weight: 74 mt. Dimensions: 2,55m х 2,60m х 3,00m. Shipper: “Savelovskij Mashinostroitel'nyj zavod (САВМА)”. Services: customs clearance under “temporary export“ regime, auto transportation, cargo handling. Transportation period: 02.2008.

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Pipe rolling production in Dagestan, Russia. Route: Italy – customs clearance in Bryansk (Russia) – Novyj Kumuh (Dagestan, Russia). Cargo: pipe and tube mill model 70/120 H.F.. Total weight: 120 mt. Shipper: “OLIMPIA 80” s.r.l. (Italy). Services: auto transportation ( 8 standard trailers and 2 specialized trailers for heavy-lift equipment) , cargo handling, import customs clearance, armed escort. Transportation period: 02-03.2011.

Mining production in India. Route: Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk Region) – St. Petersburg – Chennai (India). Cargo: cone-type crusher with components. Total weight: 200 mt. Main body – 40 mt. Shipper: OJSC “URALMASH” (Russia). Services: rail transportation, customs clearance, cargo handling, sea freight. Transportation period: 08.2011.

References

STATE ATOMIC ENERGY CORPORATION “ROSATOM”

CJSC “LUKOIL – NEFTEGAZSTROY”

OJSC “POWER MACHINES”

BAKER HUGHES. CENTRILIFT (USA)

…BEDFORD GROUP represents in the market of freight forwarding services a reliable, competent and stable partner, capable to solve issues of various degrees of complexity with observance of the interests of the Client. We consider it necessary to express our special gratitude for rapid, qualitative, qualified work, performed at the high professional level…

…BEDFORD GROUP has successfully arranged a number of project transportations of complicated heavy lift and huge equipment for mining of Uzhnoe Shapkino oilfield (Komi Republic, Russia) from Canada, England and Italy. Carriages were arranged by all transport means, including airfreight of AN-124 type (Ruslan)…

…Works have been done professionally, at the highest level with the consideration of the high importance of the projects, despite the extremely short deadlines envisaged for the delivery of the equipment to the consignee…

…BEDFORD GROUP always offered us the most convenient schedules and routes for transportation of our cargoes … .We would like to point out the high technological and logistic level of performed projects as well as great experience of “BEDFORD GROUP” employees, their attentiveness and care to our requests…

BEIJING SUNSHINE BROAD ELECTRIC POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD (CHINA) NIPPON STEEL TRADING. (JAPAN)

…BEDFORD GROUP … has proved as a reliable partner, able to solve any complexity problems with maximum convenience and benefit for Consignee and for the Shipper. … These transportations were executed at the highest level, taking into consideration the high importance of the Project, in spite of short delivery terms…

…BEDFORD GROUP is in charge of shipments of cargoes for such projects as Sakhalin-1 and a number of other large projects in West Siberia... BEDFORD GROUP successfully carried out a number of transportations within different trade contracts, arranging shipments of all kinds of cargoes, including heavy-lift machinery, pipes and different equipment…

…BEDFORD GROUP always offered us the most convenient schedules and routes for transportation of our cargoes … .We would like to point out the high technological and logistic level of performed projects as well as great experience of “BEDFORD GROUP” employees, their attentiveness and care to our requests…

…BEDFORD GROUP chooses and freights vessels suitable for the transportation of the cargo within dates stipulated by the works schedule, organizes the cargo’s legalization, storage and transshipment in the Russian and Ukrainian sea ports and its shipment to the Turkish ports. …

“VO TECHNOSTROYEXPORT” JSCO. COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT MOTOR SICH JSC (UKRAINE). EXPORT BUREAU

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