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FeatureRo-ro carriers keep on rolling on
Ro-ro carriers have been able to manage capacity and market swings better than many, but shifting vehicle flows, fuel cost rises and a volatile market may make the coming years the hardest yet to balance, reports Jonathan Ward. The global ro-ro and pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) market ...
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FeatureEditor's Note: Supply chains and purchasing
About five years ago, OEM executives described buying components in places like Southeast Asia as ‘low-cost country’ sourcing. A few years later, they started calling it the more cheerful ‘best-cost country’ sourcing. I always thought of this change as a PR cleanse – an obfuscation of the short and clear ...
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FeatureEDITOR’S NOTE: Lack of innovation in vehicle logistics
Lack of innovation in logistics, especially vehicle logistics, is an old complaint. One OEM executive told me that if you Google his name, you’ll find a quote from 2003 – probably from one of our conferences – in which he decried the lack of such progress. His opinion hasn’t changed ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Schenker opens UK centre for contract logisticsDB Schenker Logistics’ UK division, Schenker Limited, has opened a new shared user facility in the UK Midlands dedicated to contract logistics. The 5,200-square-metre Shared Logistics Centre, which is located at junction 10 of the M42 near Tamworth, will provide services to multiple ...
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FeatureTesla moves to Tilburg for distribution
Premium electric carmaker Tesla Motors has announced it will begin distribution of its Model S sedan from its new 6,000-square-metre European distribution centre at Tilburg in The Netherlands. It is the first time the vehicle has been distributed outside of the US since it was introduced last June ...
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FeatureHonda exports one millionth car from US
Honda has exported its one millionth car from the United States, 25 years after exports from the country began. The milestone vehicle was a silver Accord EX-L Sedan and was loaded on a Höegh car carrier at port Hueneme in California bound for Seoul in South Korea. The vehicle ...
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FeatureWork together through the uncertainty
Last week’s Automotive Logistics India conference in Pune revealed that carmakers were willing to work together to make the best of a situation where market volatility, inching regulatory change and huge gaps in infrastructure continued to make things difficult for the automotive industry there to compete globally.Prem Verma, chief ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
GM to stop assembly at BochumGeneral Motor’s European division Opel has confirmed it will close its Bochum plant in Germany in 2016. The announcement follows one in June when the carmaker said it would not be producing a successor for the current Zafira at the plant because of shrinking ...
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FeatureSchenker doubles BMW export centre
DB Schenker Logistics is doubling the size of its Leipzig logistics centre to meet demand for BMW assembly in China and South Africa. The $33m facility began making regular shipments of complete knockdown (CKD) kits of the 3 and 5 Series by rail to Shenyang in December ...
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FeatureMajor Audi CKD hub for Asia exports
Audi is having a 46,000-square metre logistics facility built for it at the Logport II complex at Duisburg port in Germany for the export of complete knockdown (CKD) kits to China and India. Duisburg is an inland waterways port situated on the river Rhine near Essen.The facility, which is ...
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FeatureInquiry begins into sinking of Baltic Ace
Last week’s sinking of the car carrier Baltic Ace following a fatal collision with the container ship Corvus J in the North Sea has resulted in the confirmed deaths of five crewmen with a further six crew members unaccounted for but presumed dead with no further searches planned. The ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Qingdao port to import vehicles from 2013China's State Council has recently said the port of Qingdao in eastern Shadong province will begin functioning as a major car import terminal in 2013. It will be the only such facility in Shandong province to do so. A ro-ro terminal and auxiliary ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Following last week’s news that Dr Detlef Trefzger has resigned as DB Schenker’s member of the Board for Contract Logistics/SCM, it has been announced that he will take up a new role on the management board for Kuehne + Nagel with global responsibility for the Contract Logistics business unit. ...
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FeatureAPL Vascor JV offers rail service in India
International supply chain provider APL Logistics and North American 3PL Vascor have set up a joint venture in India to provide rail transport and yard management for vehicles, the first step in a wider project for comprehensive inbound, outbound and aftermarket services in the country. Based in Delhi and ...
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FeatureGefco improves PSA exports to South America
Gefco is moving automotive parts to PSA Peugeot-Citroën facilities in Brazil and Argentina from suppliers in Europe thanks to a relocation to a new warehouse in Trnava, Slovakia. Since September the company has been managing an international logistics platform in Trnava, near Bratislava, where parts are delivered from suppliers ...
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FeatureVW starts work on second India PDC
Volkswagen has broken ground on a second regional parts distribution centre in India near Mumbai. The 21,000-square-metre facility, which is expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2014, is being built at Bhiwandi with good access to the Nava Sheva port, as well as Mumbai and Pune. ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Auto Marine Transport to build PCTCs with SamjinRo-ro and breakbulk operator Siem Car Carriers has helped establish a new ship tonnage provider Auto Marine Transport to build energy efficient pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) to meet demand over the next decade. The new company has now signed an initial ...
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FeaturePT GAD will import Land Rover to Indonesia
The Indonesian importer for Jaguar cars, PT Grandauto Dinamika (PT GAD), will also begin importing and distributing Land Rover vehicles to the country from the beginning of next year. PT GAD, a joint venture between Wearnes Automotive group and Hadi Widjaja Tanaga, president of Premium Automobiles, has been importing ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Bruno Sidler has stood down from his role as chief operating officer at Ceva Logistics and is moving to a new COO position in February next year at market expansion services group DKSH, which focuses on the consumer goods, healthcare, performance materials and technology sectors in Asia.“DKSH will benefit from ...
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FeatureHonda to boost exports from North America
Honda Motor has said it intends to boost vehicle exports from the US and could raise volumes from the current level of between 6%-7% to as much as 20% from the wider North American region. By the end of this year it will have exported a total of 1m vehicle ...