5 Tons of New Year Cheer!
11/25/2025
At the end of October, ACEX arranged a road shipment from the Chinese city of Nanjing to Moscow for our client — the publishing group ARBOR LLC. On paper it sounds dry: “New Year souvenirs made of bone china.” In reality, it was:
- 6,120 Christmas tree baubles,
- among them baubles with the appetizing name “Biscuit” (mmm, it instantly makes you think of tea, a blanket and fairy lights),
- 2,120 candy bowls,
- 652 trays.
The total weight of the shipment was 5,180 kg — several tons of carefully packed joy that will soon turn into festive mood for hundreds of people.
Why Bone China Is Such a Big Deal
Bone china is a very special material. Its composition includes calcined bone ash, which makes the items:
- visually refined and lightweight,
- enriched with a noble creamy, milky shade,
- slightly translucent in the light,
- and able to produce that very distinctive, clear “porcelain chime” you want to hear again and again.
So each bauble, bowl or tray is already a valuable, ready-made gift — and the task of the logistics team is not just to “transport the cargo,” but to preserve this fragile beauty in its original, perfect condition.
When Every Box Feels Like a Small Responsibility
The project was led by the remarkable Aleksandra Tikhonova, project manager at Associated Cargo Experts, who supervised the shipment from the very first request to the final unloading in Moscow.
“It was very exciting, because the goods were fragile and meant as gifts for a specific number of people within a specific time frame,” Aleksandra recalls. “But we delivered everything intact and on time, just as promised. Special conditions were arranged for transporting such delicate cargo.”
The Holiday Starts Long Before the Clock Strikes Midnight
The moment the truck with New Year souvenirs arrives at the warehouse in Moscow feels like a little internal New Year’s Eve. Because somewhere, gift recipient lists are already being prepared, packaging, cards and messages are being planned, and on the warehouse shelves stand those very “Biscuit” bone china baubles, bowls and trays that will soon end up in someone’s home.
Just yesterday they were neatly packed boxes in Nanjing, today they are a precious shipment in Moscow, and tomorrow they will become part of someone’s family tradition: taking out the Christmas decorations, remembering where they came from, and rediscovering that joy year after year.