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All Africa articles – Page 36
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FeatureGM keeps Opel but what now for LSPs?
GM’s announcement last night that, after months of wrangling over the reluctant sale of Opel/Vauxhall, it would instead keep it probably brings as many new questions for its supply chain and logistics service providers as it might answer others. While it’s clear that GM’s European operations will remain an integral ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Ford’s group vice president of global manufacturing, and labour affairs, Joe Hinrichs (pictured), is taking up a new position at the company as group vice president of Asia Pacific and Africa. He will start on December 1st and is replacing John Parker who is retiring in January after a 41-year ...
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GMSA and UTi awarded for Euro Express
General Motors South Africa (GMSA) and integrated logistics provider UTi have won the Platinum Award at the annual Logistics Achiever Awards ceremony recently held in Johannesburg. The prize was awarded in recognition of their integrated supply chain joint venture Euro Express. According to Evan Dold, GMSA vice president of global ...
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FeatureEuropean vehicle logistics sector needs billions
European finished vehicle logistics providers are in need of up to €7 billion in financing if they are to meet the needs of a recovery in car sales and production, revealed Costantino Baldissara, president of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG) at the association’s annual conference in Rotterdam last ...
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FeatureLogistics is holding South Africa back
An inefficient supply chain, high logistics and port handling costs could cause carmakers in South Africa to lose future production volumes to global competitors in Asia, South America and even the EU, according to executives at last week’s South African Automotive Week in Port Elizabeth. Total costs for South Africa’s ...
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FeatureAre supplier parks the answer for South Africa?
As the South African automotive industry has struggled with a chronically underdeveloped local supplier base, leading to higher logistics cost and poorer manufacturing productivity, both industry and government in the country are making efforts to improve the supply chain’s efficiencies by developing supplier parks and logistics centres based near plants ...
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FeatureCarmakers don't want the inventory
The historically low finished vehicle inventory levels in North America are here to stay, according to several carmakers speaking on day one of the 10th Automotive Logistics Global conference in Detroit this week. Keynote speaker Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s group vice president, global manufacturing and labour affairs (pictured), admitting that the ...
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FeatureRo-ro deliveries for Hoegh and Grimaldi
Höegh Autoliners has delivered over 1,500 Nissan vehicles through the Port of Gdansk on board the Atlantic Spirit. The vessel delivered the vehicles from South Korea and it formed the largest delivery of cars at the port this year. The majority of the vehicles are for delivery to the Russian ...
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FeatureGM hits new markets with Chinese-made minivans
Under a new agreement with its Chinese partner, Liuzhou Wuling Automotive, GM has begun exports of minivans from the country to markets in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The first shipment of 150 vehicles left Guangzhou for Egypt last Thursday aboard NYK’s Zeus Leader and are due to ...
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FeatureWhen will logistics start tweeting?
If logistics, as the adage goes, is more about the flow of information than the flow of materials, then the ever-more popular spread of social media tools could be just the right equipment for 21st century supply chain management. Twitter, with its up-to-the-next second updates and its ability to build ...
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FeatureHonda UK to export hot hatchback
Honda will export the Civic Type R from its Swindon plant in the UK for sale in Japan next year; it’s the third country to take the UK Type R after Australia and South Africa. The three-door 'hot hatchback' will be called the Type R Euro in Japan to distinguish ...
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FeatureRMI sign partnership for multi-modal service with ProAct
US rail software provider RMI has signed a strategic partnership with supply chain software provider ProAct International for a new online management service that will benefit automotive companies operating in the US, Canada and Latin America. The deal is estimated to be worth in excess of $500,000 over time. RMI ...
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FeaturePowerID helps CHEP with RFID in South Africa
Pallet and container pooling provider CHEP is currently rolling out the use of a battery-assisted, passive (BAP) RFID tags provided by PowerID to track pallets and FLC containers for its automotive and retail customers in South Africa. CHEP, which has been working with PowerID since early 2008, opted for the ...
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FeatureGM reassures LSPs during Venezuela shutdown
General Motors (GM) has suspended operations for at least three months at its Valencia vehicle assembly plant in Venezuela's central Carabobo state because it cannot buy enough dollars from the government to pay overseas suppliers. It currently owes them $1.2 billion. GM is the country's largest automaker and the government ...
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FeatureGMSA awards providers for going extra mile
General Motors South Africa has recognised two of its logistics providers at the Supplier of the Year 2008 awards held at the company’s Vehicle Conversion and Distribution Centre in Port Elizabeth last Thursday. Höegh Autoliners and To Anywhere Carriers took awards in the Logistics category. Höegh Autoliners transports Opel imports ...
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FeatureAutomotive to benefit from TNT networks
The launch of TNT’s South America Road Network (SARN) will definitely benefit the company’s automotive parts movements in the region according to the company, building on its success in Brazil where the automotive industry is its second biggest market. SARN is the only integrated road network across South America linking ...
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FeatureHoegh builds on India exports trial
Norwegian ro-ro carrier Höegh Autoliners is establishing a new route between the Middle East, India and Africa following trial shipments which began in 2008. The inaugural sailing of the new regular service will take place in the first week of July, supporting both rolling and static cargo, including vehicles made ...
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Feature'The best time to invest is in a crisis'
“The best time to invest is in a crisis in any country or system, because afterwards there comes a boom.” José Ricardo Chiarello, Volkswagen do Brasil’s Head of Logistics (pictured). “Two years ago Brazil was close to a logistics blackout and this could happen again in two years. The ...
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FeatureUK port still sees scope for automotive
Despite declining volumes at its car terminals in the past six months, the Port of Tyne, near Newcastle in the north of England, is keen to develop recently acquired land for the automotive industry. “We have about 50 acres (20 hectares) to develop, and we want to look at it ...
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FeatureTNT strengthens presence in Brazil
Netherlands-based logistics giant TNT has taken 100% control of South American provider Expresso Araçatuba Transportes e Logistica SA for €54m. The company, which has been a partner of TNT Mercúrio in Brazil since 2001, offers express transport from the South and South East of Brazil to the North and Central ...