Rendering our clients with the services for the procurement of goods abroad, we have come to the understanding of the need of creation of own European company, which would be the consolidation link in the scheme of procurement of import goods. So was established the German SO Logistics Europe GMBH (SOLE).  SOLE bares 2 main functions:


1.    Reducing labor cost of the supplier of goods with the export of goods from Europe and client with the import into Russia: as is well known, in order to become a participant of foreign economic activity in Russia there is a need to comply with a sufficiently large number of formalities. With one-time deliveries of goods, as well as rare and (or) non-regular delivery of goods from several suppliers, labor costs for the organization and support of work of the Company in the status of participant of FEA becomes quite strong that can make this type of activity unprofitable. Using the scheme «outsourcing FEA» using European Company of the purchaser, it makes it much easier to import goods to Russia as it does not require the conclusion of foreign economic contracts between suppliers of goods and the European company-buyer (SOLE) because they are in a unified economic space. More importantly, SOLE has its own VAT number, which allows the purchase of goods without VAT (VAT) and guarantee the supplier its return after the export of goods outside the EU. The signing of a separate contract between SOLE and our Russian company-importer is also not required because they already signed a framework foreign trade contract, allowing to import the widest range of goods.


2.    Reducing financial costs of our clients:
With the import of goods a quite a large number of payments is made, independent (or relatively independent) of the amount, weight, range and price of the imported good. Such include:

  • Issue of transportation documents (CMR, TIR, AWB, BL)
  • Formalizing export.
  • Customs warehouse services (ÑÂÕ) (fixed part) in Europe and Russia
  • Customs brokers services (fixed part)

For import of cheap goods the price of these services may be compared and even exceed the price of the good itself.  SOLE combines invoices from small suppliers into a unified invoice under the existing Foreign Trade Contract which allows to significantly save the funds of our clients. In actual fact here is implemented the principle of «collective consignment» in finance.