Services
Storage & warehousing
Goods almost always wait somewhere — between arrival and sale, between clearance and the delivery slot. We find the warehouse for that interval and carry the calculation, the contract and the control.
Positioning
A warehouse is an interval, not a building.
We do not rent out square metres of our own. We select a facility for a specific consignment, temperature regime and term, agree a tariff that already contains the handling, and keep the contract in one pair of hands — your counterparty stays ALPHA GROUP, not five separate subcontractors.
Capacity is provided through partner infrastructure. ALPHA GROUP selects, contracts and controls; the partner operates the facility.
Three formats
Pallet, square metre or no storage at all
The format follows the cargo, not the price list. Choosing the wrong unit is the most common way to overpay.
Responsible storage
per pallet space, per day
You pay for the space actually occupied plus the operations performed. The warehouse accepts, places, picks and ships under your instruction.
Consignments that move: retail supply, import waiting for a slot, stock split across several buyers.
Warehouse block lease
per m², per month
A dedicated area under your own regime — your access rules, your stacking, your staff if you want them. The area is paid whether it is full or not.
A steady, predictable volume held for months, or goods that must not share a room with anything else.
Cross-docking
per pallet, no storage
The consignment is not put away at all: it is unloaded, re-formed into new pallets and leaves the same day or the next.
Consolidation of several suppliers into one delivery, or splitting one arrival across several destinations.
Temperature
With refrigeration and without
The regime is chosen by the cargo, and it decides the cost more than any other parameter. Refrigerated space is scarcer and more expensive to run, and that difference lands in the tariff.
Food storage also has a neighbourhood rule: some goods may not share a chamber. We check product compatibility and the sanitary requirements before the contract is signed, not after the first inspection.
The number you are given
One figure, not a rate plus surprises
A pallet rate on its own says almost nothing. The invoice is built from the rate plus every operation the goods go through, and those operations are where budgets break.
What our calculation contains from the start
- Storage of the pallet space for the agreed period.
- Acceptance: unloading, count, placement.
- Picking and dispatch, including partial shipments.
- Palletising and re-forming pallets.
- Labelling and stickering where the buyer requires it.
- Document set for each movement in and out.
What the market usually leaves out of the first quote
- A minimum billable volume — you pay for pallet spaces you do not use.
- A penalty for leaving early, often up to a full month of storage.
- Charges for moving goods inside the warehouse.
- A fee for returning your documents at the end.
- Vehicle detention at the gate, charged by the hour.
- Cargo insurance, charged monthly against the value of the goods.
If any of these apply to your case, they appear in the calculation you receive — not in the first invoice. Where a figure depends on something we cannot know yet, we say so and name what it depends on.
How the price is built
What moves the number
We do not publish a rate card, because the rate without your parameters is a number that misleads. Here is what it is built from.
Raises the price
- Temperature regime
- Chilled and frozen space costs materially more than ambient — it is scarcer and its running cost is higher.
- Turnover
- Many small shipments mean many operations. Storage may be cheap while handling is not.
- Pallet height and type
- Non-standard and oversized pallets occupy more than one space and cannot be racked normally.
- Location
- Closer to the city and to the ring road costs more than a site an hour out.
- Short term
- A few weeks is priced worse than a year. The warehouse is pricing its own risk of an empty cell.
Lowers the price
- Term
- A commitment of six months or more is the single strongest argument in the negotiation.
- Stable volume
- A predictable occupancy lets the warehouse plan, and planning is discountable.
- Consolidation
- Your consignment sharing space and handling with our other flows reduces the per-pallet cost.
- Off-peak start
- Demand for cold space is seasonal. Starting outside the peak changes the terms.
The market is currently moving in the tenant's favour: vacancy in class A warehousing around St Petersburg is at a multi-year high and rates are forecast to ease. That is an argument to fix terms now, and we will say so when it applies to your case.
How it runs
From request to first acceptance
- 01
Request
Cargo, regime, volume, region, start date and expected term. Five lines are enough to begin.
- 02
Options
We come back with two or three facilities and a full calculation for each — not a rate, a monthly cost.
- 03
Inspection
If it matters, we go and look at the warehouse before anything is signed. You are welcome to come.
- 04
Contract
One contract with ALPHA GROUP. Responsibility for the goods, the deadlines and the tariff is written down in it.
- 05
First acceptance
The first consignment is accepted with our participation, so that the process is corrected at the start and not on the third invoice.
Boundaries
What we do not take on
Said in advance, so that nobody loses a week finding out.
Dangerous goods
ADR classes need a specialised site and a separate licence. We say no at the request stage rather than search and fail.
Excisable goods
Alcohol and other excisable categories only through a licensed warehouse, and only where the paperwork supports it.
Goods without documents
No origin, no clearance, no specification — no storage. This is not a formality; it is the condition on which the warehouse accepts liability at all.
Tell us what needs storing
Cargo, temperature regime, volume and region — we will come back with options and a calculation where handling is already inside the number.