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Tata Nano could be saving grace for supply chain
Following months of delay, Tata Motors has announced that the Nano, the world’s cheapest car, will officially launch on March 23rd, and should reach dealers by the first week of April, according to the company. Sales in the short term could defy the sour economy and be enough to help ...
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FeatureChina offers economic help to logistics industry
Several sources have indicated that the Chinese government will extend support to industries hit by the economic downturn to help ports, warehouse operators and shipping firms. A report in Reuters said that China will add logistics to its industry support plan, citing sources close to the matter. The government had ...
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FeatureRival car carriers increase scrappage
NYK may double the number of car carriers it had planned to scrap by 2010 in the face of production cuts at Toyota, Honda and Nissan. The number could reach 40, instead of the already planned 20, according to comments made last week by Mikitoshi Kai, head of investor relations ...
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FeatureAsian carmakers target Mexico
The Mexican car industry, where sales and production have been hit hard by the economic downturn, received a small boost in the past week: Nissan announced it would be shifting some of its small-car production from Japan to its plants in Mexico. Meanwhile, Changan Auto has said it will build ...
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FeatureMahindra aims to enter US by ro-ro
Mahindra & Mahindra, which will enter the US market at the end of this year with the first Indian-built vehicles to be sold there, has told Automotive Logistics that it is likely to ship its vehicles by ro-ro. “We have not yet finalised whether it will be container or ro-ro, ...
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FeatureIAC reveals opportunities for logistics providers
The sessions dedicated to logistics provision for the automotive industry at last week’s International Automotive Conference in Durham, UK, drew comment from some of sector’s leading figures and what they said revealed that upheaval was an opportunity to look closely at traditional practice and bring long-term change: “There are many ...
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FeatureRussian taxes devastate imports through Vladivostok
Finished vehicle imports through the Commercial Port of Vladivostok have dropped 85% since the introduction of the new tariffs, mainly affecting second-hand vehicles brought in from Japan. The new charges, which came in to effect on January 12 this year, have brought unprecedented disruption in Vladivostok and have sparked protests ...
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FeatureMaersk signs up to MIT supply chain programme
Maersk Logistics has joined a supply chain exchange programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) designed to benefit its supply chain management and carbon footprint strategy. The MIT Supply Chain Exchange is designed to help companies manage their supply chains more effectively by providing access to the latest research ...
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FeatureTwo-tier wagon to revolutionise Indian logistics
A joint venture of rail experts is planning to deliver a new two-tier wagon for car transport in India that could see carmakers dramatically cut their logistics costs. Advanced engineering and rail logistics provider Focal Earth has been working with French double-deck wagon maker AFR and India’s Texmaco, the ...
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Key executives on the move
Dr Karl Sommer is the new head of logistics at BMW. Johan Schuberthan has also moved back to the logistics department and will now report to Dr Sommer. In a separate move, Ralf Hattler (pictured) has moved to purchasing for the company. Paul Tay has been appointed as Vice President ...
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WWL launches service via Port of Gothenburg
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics is now using the Port of Gothenburg as a centre for high and heavy ro-ro transhipment from the Americas and Asia to St Petersburg, Russia. The new weekly service from Gothenburg to St Petersburg via Kotka, in Finland, will carry agricultural and construction equipment as well as ...
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FeatureIndian carmakers 'damn serious' about rail
Carmakers got a clearer view of the obstacles that prevent them from distributing more cars by rail in India during discussions at the Automotive Logistics India Conference last week in Mumbai. A representative from the Indian Railways (IR) told delegates that there were cost, dimension and network constraints to increasing ...
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FeatureWashington port turns from logs to logistics
In the face of finished vehicle congestion at the Port of Tacoma, logistics provider The Pasha Group has used the Port of Grays Harbor in Washington to unload 3,200 new Kia vehicles, marking the first ever shipment of vehicles to a port more used to exporting logs. The M/V Morning ...
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Key executives on the move
Patrik Puskala has been appointed Managing Director of Avelon Group Oy succeeding Jan Lönnblad who will continue as Advisor to the Board of Directors.Mr Puskala has worked at the Baltic-based automotive LSP since May 2006 when he joined as Development Director focusing on M&A activities and Russian expansion. In July ...
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FeatureDHL rolls out shared-user system to suppliers in the UK
DHL Exel Supply Chain has launched a shared-user warehousing and logistics solution for inbound automotive component suppliers in the UK. It enables Tier One and Two suppliers to cut costs by sharing facilities and IT systems, as well as providing transactional-based pricing models which lessen commercial risk as volume or ...
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FeatureGas dispute stops delivery for Hyundai-Kia
Slovakian plants in Trnava for PSA, and in Zilinia for Kia, have been forced to stop production of cars and engines from Thursday last week because the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine has cut off gas supply to the country. Hyundai’s new Czech plant in Nosovice, 90 kms away ...
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FeatureCeva supports John Deere in Brazil
Ceva Logistics is opening a new distribution centre in Brazil for agricultural manufacturer John Deere at its 35,000 m2 facility in Campinas in the state of Sao Paulo. It will consolidate activity currently handled by the Catalão and Horizontina distribution centres it runs in the mid-west and south of ...
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FeatureIndia's truck strike hits auto sector
The recent announcement that Indian carmakers are seeking to bolster their stagnating domestic sales with increased exports of finished vehicles faced an immediate problem last week as a nationwide trucker strike escalated to include port operatives and oil workers. The action, which lasted eight days, hit both the public and ...
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FeatureKey executive news
Captain Sam Judah, Managing Director of the UK’s terminal operator GBA Group (pictured), has been awarded an MBE for “Services to Business and to the Community in the East Riding of Yorkshire”.Following his 17-year career at sea, Captain Judah has spent 22 years working within the ports and terminals industry, ...
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FeatureRolf Group opens first dealer in Tajikistan for Mitsubishi
Rolf Group subsidiary Rycom has opened the first official car dealership in Tajikistan for Mitsubishi and is supporting it with a new distribution business in the country. Rycom, which is also the official distributor of Mitsubishi vehicles in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, is feeding the new Tajik business along its New ...