{"id":2961,"date":"2019-07-22T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2019-07-22T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:28:21","slug":"trade-mission-to-the-russian-market-our-mission-breaking-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/trade-mission-to-the-russian-market-our-mission-breaking-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Mission to the Russian Market. Our mission: breaking the ice!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFTER NURTURING ITS TRADE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA FOR A FEW YEARS, IN JUNE GSL PAID ITS FIRST VISIT WITH A DELEGATION OF ENTREPRENEURS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian\nmarket has always looked exciting, especially after the recession that led to a\ndecline in the communitarian market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-drop-cap has-very-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2011-2012, there has been an active interest in this market, which\nhas translated into participation in dedicated seminars on Russian trade trends\nand ongoing relationships with regional and national institutions in charge of\npromoting industrial and trade relationships between Italy and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">The first results were achieved between the end of 2014 and beginning of\n2015. After put in effort to create trust and consideration and waiting for the\nright moment, one contact finally turned into an executive order. The first\nsectors that benefitted considerably from this were aluminum castings, forged\nfittings and related large mechanical machining. This laid the basis for building\na solid, profitable and extremely satisfactory relationship, currently with a\nsingle customer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">During these first exchanges our counterpart showed strong apprehension, constantly requesting that every detail of what was agreed to be produced was put in writing. Of course, a request for clarity is always good, but it nevertheless demonstrates a considerable difference with the kind of relationship we were used to with our European partners (Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_111944-1170x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2962\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/?attachment_id=2962\" class=\"wp-image-2962\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_122001-1-1170x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2965\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/?attachment_id=2965\" class=\"wp-image-2965\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_165659-1-1170x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2968\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/?attachment_id=2968\" class=\"wp-image-2968\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_165738-1-1170x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2971\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/?attachment_id=2971\" class=\"wp-image-2971\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">During the 3-day\nmission which took place during the first half of June, our President and the\nrepresentatives of the companies taking part in the project being negotiated\nwith the client had the chance to briefly visit Moscow. But their main focus\nremained the activities carried out in the Oblast\u2019 of Sverdlovsk. This region is located in the Eastern Ural\nMountains and takes its name from the former Bolshevik leader Jakov Sverdlov.\nThe visit focused on the industrial center of Ekaterinburg and its outskirts.\nThe name of the city may not resonate in the brain of a European entrepreneur,\nbut this is actually one of the country\u2019s leading industrial centers. It is the\nfourth largest Russian city in terms of number of inhabitants (1,468,833\ninhabitants in 2018) and a leading industrial center, especially for heavy\nindustry. It is no surprise that product sectors are led by the\nproduction of heavy machinery and big plants; the steel sector with drawn\nsteel; chemical production, the oil sector, and the transformation of oil\nderivatives. The weapons sector is worth mentioning separately, as the majority\nof weapons destined for the Russian army are produced in this area. On our trip\nthere we had the chance to visit a rather important urban center, where the\nadministration and management offices of the client are located, and the vast\nsurrounding outskirts.&nbsp; The production\nsite is located some tens of kilometers from the center of Ekaterinburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">Given the vast availability of manpower, the production site is mainly based on manual work, similarly to what we witnessed in Iran. Automation is extremely scarce, even where we consider it strategic, and it is implemented exclusively in those cases where they can\u2019t dispense with it. The trip proved extremely successful from multiple perspectives. Firstly, after several years of positive trade relationships we could finally meet the management of the client company. Secondly, we were involved in all development steps for the assembly of the end product (industrial fan), thus considerably reinforcing our already extremely well-developed trade relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1230\" height=\"1640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_121704_BF-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_121704_BF-2.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_121704_BF-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_121704_BF-2-370x493.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1230px) 100vw, 1230px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P_20190614_121636-1-1170x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2977\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG-20190614-WA0015-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG-20190614-WA0015-3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG-20190614-WA0015-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG-20190614-WA0015-3-370x493.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">Given the solid\nbonds we forged, we look forward to widening our range of activities in the\narea. Backed by our recent success, we are eager to test ourselves with the\nneeds of other sectors and production departments as we realized the\noutstanding opportunities offered by this extensive market, which for us is\nalmost completely unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER NURTURING ITS TRADE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA FOR A FEW YEARS, IN JUNE GSL PAID ITS FIRST VISIT WITH A DELEGATION OF ENTREPRENEURS. The Russian market has always looked exciting, especially after the recession that led to a decline in the communitarian market. Since 2011-2012, there has been an active interest in this market, which has translated into participation in dedicated seminars on Russian trade trends and ongoing relationships with regional and national institutions in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslexport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}