All Asia articles – Page 54
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FeatureJLR inches closer to opening of car plant in Saudi Arabia
Jaguar Land Rover has announced the signing of a deal to examine the financial viability of building cars in the Middle East. A letter of intent has been signed between JLR and the National Industrial Clusters Development Programme to determine the commercial viability of a new automotive facility in the ...
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FeatureHöegh vessel returns to service after search for missing airliner
Ocean transport provider Höegh Autoliners has returned its car carrier vessel St Petersburg on its normal commercial route after a week spent assisting in the search for the Malaysian Airlines 370 passenger plane that went missing on 8 March this year.The vessel was on its way from South Africa to ...
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FeatureRenault Nissan furthers supply chain integration
The Renault Nissan alliance has announced plans this week to further integrate its respective manufacturing engineering and supply chain management as part of a convergence of four main areas that also includes purchasing and human resources. By 2016, the partnership aims to achieve an annual saving of $4.3 billion ($6 ...
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FeatureEight logistics providers among GM Supplier of the Year winners
General Motors has announced its 2013 Supplier of the Year award to 68 suppliers, including eight companies working specifically in logistics for the carmaker.Only 1% of GM’s 24,000 global suppliers are selected for the awards, which are chosen by a group of purchasing, engineering, quality, manufacturing and logistics executives. “Our ...
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FeatureLohr restructures Delavan business in North America
Car carrier equipment maker Lohr Automotive is restructuring its business in North America. Operating through the Delavan brand, which it purchased in 1998, the company is terminating its 50:50 joint venture with Miller Industries, which it set up two years ago, and concentrating its main assembly activity for the region ...
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FeatureYusen appoints Veitch managing director of European arm
Ian Veitch will expand his managing director role at Yusen Logistics to take on responsibility for the logistic and transport provider’s European operations from April this year. Veitch was previously managing director for Yusen’s UK division.He will be based at Yusen’s European headquarters in Amsterdam. Veitch joined NYK, Yusen’s parent ...
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FeatureWage dispute means lockout at Toyota Kirloskar
Production at two plants operated by Toyota’s joint venture business in India – Toyota Kirloskar Motor – has been brought to a standstill following a dispute over wages that has resulted in a lockout at both facilities. The plants, located in Bidadi, just outside Bangalore in the south of the ...
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FeatureRussia may ban imports of Volkswagen cars
A Russian vehicle owners association is calling for a ban on the import of Volkswagen cars fitted with the DSG-7 transmission, which includes the Golf, Passat, Tiguan and Skoda Octavia, stating that the transmission is faulty and can result in traffic accidents. The carmaker also imports the transmission as part ...
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FeaturePlans for UK automotive site scuppered amidst planning row
Plans for a new industrial estate in the UK South-East have been rejected by local authorities. Automotive Distributors Ltd (ADL), which supplies parts for the independent aftermarket to Japanese, Korean, and American vehicles, was one of the providers intending to build at the Waterside Park development in Maidstone, Kent before ...
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FeatureLohr and CTM announce venture for convertible trailers
French vehicle trailer manufacturer, Lohr Industries, has signed a partnership agreement with Convertible Trailer Manufacturers Worldwide (CTM WW) to produce trailer equipment that will be able to handle both finished vehicles and a range of other general cross-industry freight, including containerised parts. CTM WW’s vehicle transporter designs mean trailers can ...
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FeatureJCB cuts logistics emissions by 16% with dual-fuel fleet
British construction equipment manufacturer, JCB, has moved aggressively towards reducing emissions and fuel consumption in its supply chain, including the use of a dual-fuel carrier fleet and multimodal logistics. The company is already savings hundreds of thousands of pounds per year as a result, according to Joannes Van Osta (pictured), ...
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FeatureLive survey results: automotive falling behind, need for IT, to Russia without love
At Automotive Logistics Europe 2014, we held several series of live voting surveys that captured the opinions of our audience present in Bonn, as well as those streaming the sessions live from around the world. The results were fascinating, from a desire for better IT services to trepidation about investing ...
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FeatureEuropean vehicle ports sail into the light
After years of overall decline, this year’s survey reveals a sense that Europe’s ports are prepared to engage competitively as automotive trade recovers. In this story...Top ten port tablesBremerhaven still leadsGrowth at Zeebrugge Spanish exports on risePort figuresUK strong across the boardRouting and hub changes Volume by biggest regionsAlthough ...
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FeatureAiming for end-to-end control at Opel/Vauxhall
Michael Scholl, Opel/Vauxhall’s director of supply chain, discusses parallel planning, in-plant logistics customisation and complexity with Automotive Logistics When carmakers make changes, be it launching a new model, adding or shifting a supplier location, or selling in a new market, they reverberate across the supply chain, either as ripples ...
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FeatureExecutive summary: Blue skies over Bonn as logistics returns to growth
Vehicle sales and production are rising again in Europe, while supply chain complexity is driving more demand for logistics and better systems. But many risks remain both within the industry, and on Europe's periphery. Additional reporting by Marcus Williams and Zoë Apostolides[sam_ad id=6 codes='true']Although the Europe conference was held at ...
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FeatureJust in time frappuccinos
Europe’s automotive supply chain experts got an opportunity to see how the other side lives at this year’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference, with a presentation on the logistics at American coffee-chain giant Starbucks. Jan Huijgens (pictured), senior manager of logistics for the European region, revealed that logistics is a strong ...
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FeatureAudi wants better visibility on logistics cost, flows
Audi has called for an open, common network of consolidation points, which could be managed by a cloud-based transport management system and control tower, to help break the ‘black box’ of transport costs and visibility. Jens Tilgner (pictured), head of material transportation at Audi, told the Automotive Logistics conference in ...
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FeatureWill Russian investment be left out in the cold?
Troubles in the Russian market and the crisis with Ukraine could be discouraging some investment by the automotive and logistics industries. However, production and localisation plans in the country don’t yet appear to have changed. During an interactive voting survey conducted at Automotive Logistics Europe, delegates were asked in which ...
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FeatureHealthier times ahead for Europe
European vehicle production is heading towards higher capacity utilisation as factories close, models are localised and the new vehicle sales market finally starts to recover, according to PwC Autofacts. Continued growth in exports as well as complex material flows should also benefit automotive logistics providers, although the European market may ...
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FeatureIndian auto sector to benefit from IBM network tool
The technology and consulting multinational IBM is deploying a B2B cloud-based network tool in the Indian automotive sector, that it said will help transform the industry by accelerating the movement of data amongst manufacturers, and reduce transaction costs by up to 80%. Called AutoDX, the exchange tool was developed in ...