All articles by Automotive Logistics – Page 34
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FeatureGlobal round up
ACL books innovative con-ro vesselsAtlantic Container Lines, the Grimaldi-owned north-Atlantic ocean forwarder, has signed a contract with Chinese state-owned Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for the delivery of five container/ro-ro (con-ro) vessels that, when completed by 2015, will be the largest vessels of their kind in the world, according to the company. ...
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FeatureDB doubles Poland-UK service
DB Schenker Rail is adding another weekly train to its service between Wroclaw in Poland and London in the UK from October this year. The company has been running one weekly train on the service since November last year but has seen increasing demand from customers across a number ...
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FeatureUK hungry for local content and capacity
The UK’s Automotive Council has released a new report that identifies £3 billion ($4.7 billion) worth of additional contractual opportunities for supply chain companies operating in the country, with the potential growth in volumes of direct benefit to logistics service providers.In the report, called Growing the UK Automotive Supply ...
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FeatureMercedes US turns to M-Class kit exports for Asia
Mercedes-Benz US International has started exporting SKD kits of its third generation M-Class SUV to India, Indonesia and Thailand from its Tuscaloosa facility in Alabama in a move designed to get around the high costs of exporting the model as a finished vehicle. Each target market has protectionist trade ...
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FeatureStrike action hits South Korean carmakers
Workers at Hyundai’s car plants in South Korea are staging a second week of strikes this week over pay and conditions. The company confirmed that up until last Friday, total lost production had reached 23,608 vehicles, equal to 484.6 billion won ($430m). This week’s repeated action could double that ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Kuehne+Nagel builds service for BMWKuehne + Nagel has expanded BMW’s supply centre in Wörth, Germany by 50,000-square metres to feed inbound parts to the carmaker’s plants in Dingolfing, Landshut and Leipzig. The addition brings the footprint at the facility to 95,000 square metres. The logistics provider is handling ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Kuehne+Nagel builds service for BMWKuehne + Nagel has expanded BMW’s supply centre in Wörth, Germany by 50,000-square metres to feed inbound parts to the carmaker’s plants in Dingolfing, Landshut and Leipzig. The addition brings the footprint at the facility to 95,000 square metres.The logistics provider is handling warehousing, sequencing ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Scott Mize, formerly manager of national transportation at Mazda North America Operations, has moved to take up the role of national manager of Vehicle Logistics at Glovis America following the departure of Scott Goodwin.As reported last month, Goodwin has moved to take up a new role as director ...
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FeatureToll sells Aussie carrier business to Prixcar
One of Asia’s leading integrated logistics providers, Toll Group, has completed the sale of its finished vehicle distribution service division in Australia to PrixCar, the automotive storage, processing and repair specialist in which it has a 50% stake. Toll said the sale will generate $35m after tax.Toll Group will ...
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FeatureAPL and Vascor launch auto LSP in India
Logistics providers APL Logistics and Vascor have joined forces to step up their business focus in India’s fast-growing vehicle market, according to an interview with the chief operating officer of the new company with Automotive Logistics News. The logistics provider, called APL Logistics Vascor Automotive Private Limited (LVA), will provide ...
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FeatureSiem route via San Diego offers alternative to rail
The port of San Diego received more than 1,000 Volkswagen Beetles and Jettas at its National City Marine Terminal at the beginning of August as part of a regular service between Mexico, the US and transpacific markets operated by Siem Car Carriers. Volkswagen is seeing strong US sales ...
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FeatureGood riddance to Q2 says Ceva
Ceva Logistics is glad to see the back of a second quarter that its chief financial officer, Rubin McDougal (pictured), said was disappointing in terms of projected volume growth in the air freight division and a poor performance in the contract logistics sector, in large part because of losses ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
DHL opens parts centre in BrazilDHL Global Forwarding has opened an automotive parts handling centre in São Paulo, Brazil that will process around 2,000 shipments per month for carmakers, commercial vehicle makers and their tier suppliers in the local market.According to the company, the Automotive Competence Center will provide ...
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FeatureHoegh steps out of car transport to China
Ocean forwarder Höegh Autoliners has withdrawn from offering passenger vehicle transport services between Europe and China stating that rates to the country “are just not good enough to cover the investment to go there”.A spokesperson for the company told Automotive Logistics News: “With vessels that already sail full in ...
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FeatureFirst UK used car export facility for NZ opens
Logistics providers Autohub and Pentalver have joined with international inspection company JEVIC to launch the UK’s first vehicle pre-clearance facility for used car shipments to New Zealand. The move is in response to an increase in second hand exports to the country from the UK (which both use right-hand ...
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FeatureSuppliers struggle with Indian power blackouts
India has been hit by a series of power cuts this week that have knocked out electricity grids in the north and east of the country affecting around 600m people and disrupting production at the country’s tier supplier facilities in the region, which could have an impact on vehicle ...
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FeatureCAT Logistics sale finalised to Gefco bidder
Construction machinery maker Caterpillar has completed the sale of its third party logistics arm – Caterpillar Logistics Services – to Platinum Equity in a deal worth $750m. Platinum Equity is also one of four companies reported to be bidding for Gefco, the logistics arm of PSA Peugeot Citroën. Platinum ...
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FeatureAutomotive helps NYK return to profit
Japan’s NYK Group reported improved revenue and a return to profitability for the first quarter of the fiscal year, which it attributed largely to more sustainable container shipping rates between Asia and Europe, as well as recovery in automobile shipments in the car carrier division following last year’s earthquake ...
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FeaturePantos moves GM Korea kits to Tashkent
General Motors has signed a contract with South Korean freight forwarder Pantos Logistics for the transport of semi-knockdown (SKD) kits of Chevrolet models from the Gunsan plant on the west coast of Korea to its joint venture engine and assembly facility in the Uzbek capital Tashkent. The carmaker is ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Jaguar Land Rover expands UK plantJaguar Land Rover has announced this week that it will expand its workforce by 1,100 at its Castle Bromwich plant in the UK Midlands to work on output of a range of new products going into production this year, including the 2013 model ...