All articles by Automotive Logistics – Page 66
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FeatureMarco Polo proposals hit record number
Marco Polo, the European Union's funding programme for projects that shift freight transport from the road to sea, rail and inland waterways, has received 101 project proposals for this year’s budget allocation, the highest number received in the programme so far. Funding requests arising from the proposals amount to €235m ...
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FeatureGothenburg sees growth in vehicle volumes
Sweden’s port of Gothenburg has seen a 40% year-on-year increase in car volumes over the first four months of 2010, handling 62,500 cars between January and April, compared with 157,000 for the whole of 2009.Vehicle throughput was the hardest hit segment of the port’s activity during the economic downturn, with ...
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FeatureOdette consortium seeks SME integration
At this week’s Odette25 conference held in Munich, Germany, Odette International’s managing director John Canvin (pictured) revealed the progress being made on a project initiated by the EU Commission to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) communicate more effectively in the global automotive supply chain through digital integration and standardisation ...
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FeatureA Chinese supply chain in transition
Rising labour and logistics rates could change the landscape of supply chain management in the automotive industry in China, it emerged last week at a special workshop organised by Automotive Logistics at the transport logistics China trade exhibition in Shanghai. On the other hand, a slowdown in the growth of ...
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FeaturePirates release Asian Glory car carrier
The car carrier VC Asian Glory, which was hijacked at the beginning of January by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, has now been released and escorted to Oman by the British military. The release follows the payment of a ransom of unspecified amount though reports indicate that the pirates ...
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FeatureAlliance gets more ambitious with Avtovaz
Renault’s relationship with Russian carmaker Avtovaz, which builds the Lada, has been extended across its alliance with Nissan in a move that could have widescale impacts for managing the supply chain for the carmakers in Russia and the surrounding region. The companies announced last week that they will expand shared ...
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FeatureLost opportunities for logistics in Spain?
ANFAC, the Spanish association of car and lorry manufacturers, as well as other carmakers, have criticised the Spanish government’s decision to reject a proposal to liberalise the country’s port services. ANFAC claims that the state has reneged on a prior commitment to liberalise port services, under pressure from port workers, ...
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Executives on the move
As part of the latest management shake up at General Motors that is seeing dozens of executives change roles in areas of product planning, vehicle engineering, purchasing and supply chain, Susanna Webber is moving from her position as executive director for global logistics to become GM Europe’s vice president for ...
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FeatureCarriers seek capacity for Japanese exports
Exports from Japan surged for the fifth straight month as vehicle numbers more than doubled compared to last year while automotive parts exports rose nearly 62%, driven by demand from China and the United States. The increase has led shipping companies operating between Japan and other global markets to charter ...
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FeatureBuilding bridges important for Chrysler
Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne put his support behind the proposed Detroit River International Crossing bridge project last week, highlighting the importance the project would have for the company’s automotive shipments across the Detroit-Windsor border, which number 1,300 a day. The project, which has been approved by the Democratic-controlled House of ...
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FeatureDenso buyout boosts distribution in Europe
Japanese component supplier Denso Corporation has strengthened the distribution of aftermarket components in Europe with the purchase at the beginning of June of CTR, a distributor of automotive climate control components with locations in Italy, Spain and France. CTR was a subsidiary of Finber, a European-based company that makes automotive ...
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FeatureBMW awards CAT for centres in France and Poland
BMW has awarded CAT Group with its Golden Award for World Best Distribution Centres at its annual world meeting of regional BMW spare parts warehouse managers held in Munich recently. The award recognised two of CAT’s facilities – at Tigery, France, a BMW-dedicated warehouse, and at Duchnice in Poland, which ...
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FeatureFiat takes a new route to Russia
Russia’s largest rail freight container operator, TransContainer, has launched a new rail logistics route to move Fiat automotive parts from Italy to Sollers’ plant in Yelabuga, Russia. The first shipment was made last Saturday (May 29) according to Russian press sources. Running from Fiat’s storage facilties in Villanova D'Asti and ...
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FeatureEurope's largest tyre warehouse now open
Goodyear Dunlop has completed expansion of its European logistics centre in Philippsburg, Germany, making it the largest passenger car tyre warehouse in Europe. Following the completion of work on storage capacity at the end of last year, which brought the total area to 388,000m2, the company has now completed work ...
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FeatureHonda hopes for restart in China
The supply of parts to all four of Honda’s assembly plants in China, which has been disrupted because of a strike at its parts supplier in the southern city of Foshan, could be resolved this week following a breakthrough with workers, said the Japanese carmaker. Production of gearboxes and engine ...
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FeatureFitch doubts over auto increase at Jaxport
Fitch Ratings has reported a negative outlook for the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) and stated the port is too dependent on automotive imports at a time when it is planning to increase vehicle throughput by 40%. The ratings firm said the revision in the outlook from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’ reflects ...
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FeatureNYK crossdock rises from the ashes
Following a fire in February that completely destroyed NYK’s crossdock in St Katalinje Waver, Belgium, the company has opened a new centre at nearby Herentals. The new 6,000m2 centre is twice the size of the previous facility and handles the overnight distribution of spare parts throughout the Benelux region and ...
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FeaturePort access important for PSA Vigo model
Logistics considerations are behind PSA Peugeot-Citroën’s decision to build a new mid-range vehicle for emerging markets at its Vigo plant in north-western Spain. The plant is located near the port of Vigo and will ease shipments to developing markets according to the company. The move is part of its strategy ...
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FeatureGet ready for risk if you want new routes
Shipping lines and service providers in the ocean forwarding business need to exploit the current crisis in world trade to consolidate volumes and offer carmakers new trade routes according to Volkswagen. But without shared risk, shipping lines are more likely to consolidate routes not volumes, and concentrate on reducing unit ...
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FeatureTata cuts supply to Sanand plant
Indian carmaker Tata has revised figures for parts supply to its Sanand plant in the state of Gujurat and asked suppliers to halve the delivery of parts for Nano production. The carmaker’s plan to make 250,000 vehicles in the first year of production at the factory, which is set to ...