All Asia articles – Page 116
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FeatureScrappage effect means no summer holiday for Hyundai
The UK’s scrappage scheme has led to the first rise in new car sales in country for 15 months, with more than one in five of the cars registered in July bought under the incentive. New car sales rose 2.4% in July and the rush for new registration models in ...
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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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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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FeatureCon-way gives more for less with Global LTL
Con-way Freight has launched a global less-than-truckload (LTL) service in collaboration with other providers, including APL Logistics and TNT, in the form of an online portfolio of the company’s LTL services. For an automotive industry still faced with overcapacity and looking for greater efficiency it means “state-of-the-art online tools and ...
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FeatureA classic move for Mazda
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has delivered a shipment of Mazda vehicles to the European Port of Antwerp, including 14 models of the classic Cosmo 110 Sport. The Cosmos, which were added to 4,500 vehicles delivered to the port aboard the ro-ro vessel MV Torrens, are featuring in this week’s international Cosmo ...
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FeaturePan-European inbound for JLR
As Tata pulls out the stops to find new efficiencies for the future of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), DHL Supply Chain, the carmaker’s lead logistics provider, has been doing its bit with the provision of a new pan-European, inbound collection strategy. Using its freight control tower in Veghel, Holland, the ...
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FeatureMOL and Sical support Nissan Indian exports
Following Nissan’s decision to use MOL Auto Logistics (India) for inland export activity from its new plant near Chennai, in India, the Mitsui OSK subsidiary has announced plans this week to enter a joint venture with Chennai-based Sical Logistics to operate a vehicle management facility at the Port of Ennore. ...
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FeatureSupply contracts signed at FAW-VW park launch
FAW-Volkswagen, the joint venture between the German company and China's second largest carmaker China First Automobile Works (FAW), has signed contracts worth a total of RMB 3.9 billion ($571m) with 22 automotive parts manufacturers to supply parts for its new plant in Chengdu, China. The total includes $120m in foreign ...
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FeatureNano is moving by rail
Indian carmaker Tata, which handed over the keys to its first Nano customer earlier this month, has begun deliveries in earnest of the world’s cheapest new car, and has also begun moving the car by rail, according Prem K Verma, the CEO of Tata Motors Limited Distribution Company (TMLD), the ...
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FeatureFrost & Sullivan award superior performers
DB Schenker and NYK Logistics reaped rewards at Frost & Sullivan’s 2009 Asia Pacific Transportation & Logistics Awards held last Thursday at the Intercontinental Singapore. A total of 37 awards were given to companies in recognition of their outstanding achievement and superior performance in the region across a range of ...
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FeatureAn investment partner for Partner Shipping
Partner Shipping, which entered the car carrier and ro-ro market last year, has found an investor to capitalise the company as it seeks to expand its ocean services. Siem Industries, an industrial group with activity in oil, gas and shipping, has invested in 50% of the company, with the other ...
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FeatureToyota and Nissan localise electric cars in Europe
Pictured, left to right: Katsunore Kojima, MD Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK, Tadashi Arashima, President Toyota Motor Europe, Lord Peter Mandelson, UK Business Secretary Announcements last week that Toyota will begin its first hybrid production in Europe at its Burnaston factory in the UK, along with Nissan’s revelation that it ...
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FeatureAfter a decade, WWL looks even more to logistics
Car carrier and finished vehicle logistics provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), while its shipping revenue and profits have reeled from the drop in car sales and overcapacity of ro-ro tonnage, has achieved more stability and new business for its logistics and land operations, according to CEO Arild Iversen (pictured). To ...
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FeatureVW opens first logistics service facility in India
Volkswagen has completed work on a Logistics Service Facility at its Aurangabad plant in India for the supply of spare parts to Audi, Skoda and VW brand vehicles. It is the first such facility the German carmaker has established in the country and has been set up as part of ...
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FeatureNissan will export Micra from India
Nissan will begin exporting the next Micra from its new factory in Oragadam near Chennai, India once production begins there in the middle of next year. Exports could account for 60-70% of production. The factory, which will have an annual capacity of 200,000, is slated to begin production by May ...
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FeaturePasha deal sees Hyundai-Kias delivered to San Diego
As South Korea seeks free trade agreements around the world, the country’s leading carmaker isn’t waiting for tariffs to fall as it continues to export to foreign markets. Next Monday sees the first delivery of Hyundai-Kia vehicles to the US port of San Diego under a new three-year agreement between ...
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FeaturePotential EU-Korea trade agreement riles the ACEA...
The European Union and South Korea were still not ready to sign off a free trade agreement (FTA) when talks concluded on Monday in Stockholm, Sweden, thanks to “outstanding questions” from some EU members and opposition by European carmakers about the threat to European manufacturing they say that the policy ...
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LSPs must weather the storm
Much sought after optimism in the European vehicle market has been hit by gloomy forecasts from leading business analysts who have warned of an increased risk to carmakers' cash flows in the first half of 2010 and a threat to half of all European suppliers, including finished vehicle logistics providers. ...
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FeatureNYK goes green around the globe
As NYK Line's car carrier Auriga Leader, which is partly powered by solar energy, made an inaugural call at the Port of Long Beach last week, the company announced another environment project designed to extend the length of car carriers made in Japan. Research is now being carried out with ...
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FeatureNissan chooses MOL for Indian exports
Nissan has chosen Mitsui OSK Lines for inland export activity from the plant it is building near Chennai in India. Situated in Oragadam, the plant is being promoted by an alliance partnership with Renault called Renault Nissan Automotive Indian Private Ltd, though the French carmaker will not be part of ...