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Shortly before the quarantine and the crisis, we joked that everyone needed translations and transportation. But on March 15, our cars, minibuses and buses stopped working. All events were interpretation was needed got cancelled. Quarantine broke out. We lost more than 70% of the volume of work in transport and about 20% in translations. So, the owners and top management had to make difficult decisions fast. Relocation, dismissal, dumping, dark times – what could employees expect?
FORCE Group combines two areas of business: Task Force Translation Agency and Drive Force Transfer Company, which are united by owners, a single back-office and a desire to provide customers with a high level of service according to international best practices. Before the crisis, our assets were a large office in Kyiv on Shulyavka, 30+ office workers, more than 600 freelancers in both business areas, our transport.
We felt the impact of quarantine even before its official start in Ukraine. Avalanche cancellations have started in Drive Force, whose activities are directly related to flights and events of various scales (transfers: transportation of people at the customer’s request from point A to point B by business-class transport). We usually perform individual and group transfers to and from airports, railway stations, organize transport logistics of business events for Ukrainian and international companies.
Written translations were not affected, but government agencies stopped accepting documents or changed the work schedule, so we currently provide services of apostille, legalization, and notarization with some restrictions. Interpretation froze.
