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FeatureChina could impose import tariffs on US vehicles
Chrysler, Ford and General Motors are meeting with the American Automotive Policy Council this week to discuss China’s trade investigation into US carmaker subsidies which is due to begin today and could result in tariffs being imposed on the companies’ vehicle imports. Following a petition from automotive companies in China, ...
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FeatureWWL supports China service with inland distribution
Following last week’s announcement that WWL is providing inland transport services with local providers for Nissan distribution in India (read more here), the company is also supporting inland movements for increased deliveries on its China Express service. Last week WWL said that dedicated ro-ro sailings on the service between Japan, ...
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FeatureMOL and Sical to start Chennai operations
India's Sical Logistics has completed the creation of a joint venture with Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) to operate an automotive management yard at the Port of Ennore near Chennai, India. Following a MoU signed in August, the deal was finalised this week and operations are now due to commence ...
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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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FeatureWWL lands distribution deal with Nissan in India
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (India) has been awarded a contract to provide yard management services and domestic distribution of Nissan vehicles to dealers in India. It is the first such contract the company has secured in the country and now means the India division will provide a full range of factory-to-dealer ...
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FeatureWorld-ranked K+N gets BMW contract in Japan
Kuehne + Nagel has secured a three-year contract with BMW for the management of its spare parts distribution centre in Japan. From the 18,000m2 centre, located near Narita and its international airport (60km east of Tokyo), Kuehne + Nagel will provide a range of services including receiving, inventory control, picking ...
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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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FeatureStay close on the bumpy road ahead
Flexibility in the supply chain remains the most important challenge for OEMs and LSPs according to surveys held at last week’s Automotive Logistics Global conference in Dearborn, and crucial to maintaining that flexibility was the ability to share information and remain innovative, something that needs improve and quickly. The surveys ...
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FeatureCautious reaction to scrappage extension in UK
Monday’s announcement by the UK’s business secretary Lord Mandelson that the UK scrappage scheme would be extended for a further 100,000 vehicles has been cautiously welcomed by carmakers around the country who were keen to stress that any lift was very much part of a wider European set of initiatives. ...
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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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FeatureNYK celebrates 20 years in Belgium
Following the recent integration of spare parts deliveries for Kia dealerships in Belgium and Luxembourg (read more here), NYK Logistics Belgium has celebrated its 20th anniversary in the country. The first ship NYK sent from Japan to Europe made its first port of call at Antwerp in 1896 establishing ties ...
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FeatureWhat does sustainable shipping really look like?
Automotive shipping companies have been flexing their PR muscles in preparation for this year’s World Maritime Day, the International Maritime Organisation’s annual global event, which concentrates attention on environmentally conscious and safer shipping practice. This year’s event, which takes place on Thursday this week, focuses on the reduction of greenhouse ...
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FeatureHonda Indiana exports Civics to wider markets
Honda’s Greensburg plant in Indiana has shipped its first units of the Civic sedan to Mexico as part of a wider export strategy that also includes markets in Latin America as well as the Caribbean and US territories in Puerto Rico, Guam and Saipan. The first 270 units will arrive ...
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Greater efficiency in India is just around the corner
Inefficient processes, inadequate infrastructure and multiple tax structures are being blamed for the excessive cost of logistics in India, according to a new report from CRISIL Research, the country’s largest independent research house. But the findings suggest that greater efficiency can be achieved by outsourcing to 3PLs, supported by more ...
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FeatureNissan goes direct to the dealer
Höegh Autoliner’s recent delivery of over 1,500 Nissan vehicles to the Port of Gdansk for delivery to the Russian market also marked a new logistics strategy between Nissan Motor RUS and Russian LSP Major Auto Trans. Since 2004 Major Auto Trans has cooperated with Nissan’s Russian division on international movements, ...
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FeatureHonda sales boost means export contract for Indian JV
Honda Siel Cars India – the joint venture between India’s Siel Group and Honda – will start exporting engine components to Japan from October from its plant at Tapukara in Rajasthan which opened last autumn. The company plans to export 54,000 sets of crank-shafts and connecting rods over the next ...
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FeatureNotes from India...from Automotive Logistics publisher Louis Yiakoumi
I have just returned from a two week trip to India. It was great to be in a place with such vibrancy and excitement about their automotive industry. The market has shown positive signs in recent months, and India is now entering its biggest sales period during the religious festivals. ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Frank Müller (pictured) has replaced Sven Grossmann as Director Quality Management for BLG Automobile Logistics. Müller has been with BLG Logistics for nine years across a number of roles gaining a good knowledge of the requirements and specific processes in the automobile industry.Before he started working for BLG Logistics he ...
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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 ...