All articles by Automotive Logistics – Page 70
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FeatureNYK targets China and Kazakhstan
NYK Logistics (China) has opened a new branch in Nanjing that will include automotive support for Chang’an Mazda Ford as it prepares to increase output in the country. “The customer is the auto parts vendor of the Changan Mazda Ford Nanjing factory. We are now handling their import/export operation, warehouse ...
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FeatureLogistics providers celebrated in supplier awards
Logistics providers were once again among the 76 recipients of the GM Supplier of the Year awards held at the GM Design Dome in Warren, Michigan last Thursday. ECM (Vehicle Delivery Service), FedEx, Grimaldi, Höegh, K-Line, Ryder and TMS were among those recognised. “The Supplier of the Year award is ...
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FeatureVehicle logistics more flexible than auto sector
The Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG) published a report this week that aims to convince banks that the European outbound vehicle logistics is a credit- and investment-worthy sector. The report highlights that, while fundamentally linked to the wider automotive industry, companies working in outbound vehicle logistics generally benefit from ...
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FeatureSovereign offer solution to supply chain visibility
Day two of last week’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference in Bonn, Germany, took the form of workshops where delegates focused on a range of interests including information systems, service parts and the impact of the recession on the logistics and supply chains of tier suppliers. Discussions focusing on outbound movements ...
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FeatureVW begins box trials between Germany and Russia
Volkswagen is testing a new automotive box solution for the movement of parts by rail, beginning with shipments between its Wolfsburg plant in Germany and its plant in Kaluga, Russia. The box has been designed by Schenker Automotive Railnet in cooperation with Volkswagen Logistics and from April DB Schenker will ...
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FeatureVW Polo deliveries begin in India
Volkswagen has made its first delivery of the Polo assembled at its €580m ($789m) Chakan plant near Pune to the Indian dealer network. The company could distribute up to 35,000 Polos this year by road to its network of more than 40 dealers. The German carmaker is in the final ...
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FeatureRenault transforms logistics for boost at Avtoframos
Renault is implementing a number of logistics measures to support increased capacity at its Avtoframos plant in Moscow, including a multimodal solution for parts supply from its parts plant in Pitesti, Romania and new tenders for LSPs to manage the supply of local parts as part of its plans to ...
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FeatureAlliance sets tough target for logistics
Renault and Nissan have set ambitious targets for cutting cost as a result of merging their supply chain divisions into a single logistics entity for the extended European region, it emerged last week at the Automotive Logistics Europe conference, with logistics providers expected to make a significant contribution. What ...
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FeatureFord is bringing Vista to Asia Pacific Africa
With Ford's plans to treble production capacity in Asia Pacific and Africa (APA) by 2012, it is bringing both its global manufacturing and logistics processes, as well as its best IT systems to the region. Most notably, Ford is in the process of rolling of its European order-to-delivery system, Vista, ...
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FeatureRETRACK research moves vehicles to rail
A new weekly rail service, which will carry finished vehicles and automotive parts along with agribulk and chemical products between Cologne in Germany and Györ, Hungary, has been launched as part of a European research project on innovative rail freight concepts. The project, called RETRACK (REorganisation of Transport networks by ...
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FeaturePremium freight and pressing needs for TRW
TRW Automotive’s premium freight movements in Europe will now be handled by Roberts Europe across 12 countries following a contract signed between the two companies at the end of February. Full implementation of the service is expected within the next four to six weeks. TRW makes a range of vehicle ...
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FeatureLivorno bucks the downward trend
Figures for finished vehicle movements through the European ports for 2009 do not make happy reading on the whole. For the second year in a row there was a decline across leading ports with many down in double figures. Bremerhaven saw a combined drop in exports and imports of nearly ...
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FeatureKia boom means more exports from south
An increase in export demand for vehicles made at Kia’s plant in Gwangju in southern region of South Korea means the company will have to increase movements to ports in the south or risk costing itself time and money by moving vehicles across land to the port of Pyeongtak in ...
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FeatureGermany's VDA awards ZF for 'Year of Logistics'
German automotive association – the VDA (Verbrand der Automobilindustrie) – has awarded driveline and chassis expert ZF Friedrichshafen the VDA Logistics Award 2010 for “high performance logistics in the heavy commercial vehicle sector”. Presented at the 9th VDA Logistics Congress in Leipzig, Germany, the award recognised efforts made during ZF’s ...
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FeatureClear momentum for logistics at AL Europe
Following the decline in trade volumes since the onset of the financial crisis, carmakers and logistics service providers expect global parts movements and logistics in the industry to accelerate at full force again. Audi has revealed that it anticipates dramatic increases in the use of containers and sequenced parts, while ...
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FeatureTurkey welcomes trade upturn with Russia
Russia is considering the establishment of a new logistics centre in Krasnodar, Russia to facilitate the growth in bilateral trade between it and Turkey as talks continue between the two countries. Krasnodar is located 80km from the Black Sea and close to ports there including Novorossiysk, Tuapse and Kavkaz. The ...
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FeatureHow will last orders hit UK logistics?
Today marks the beginning of the exit phase of the UK’s scrappage scheme, with the final allocation of 50,000 further orders for carmakers. It will end when the budget for the scheme runs out, or at midnight on Wednesday 31st March this year, whichever is sooner. The UK government has ...
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FeatureCars in containers gain ground in India
As a number of recent developments highlight, India’s carmakers continue to pursue containerisation as an option for internal distribution and logistics. In January, for instance, Indian logistics provider Adani Logistics began rail shipments of Maruti Suzuki vehicles destined for export, using Kar-Tainer's five-car exterior loaded cassette solution to ship the ...
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FeatureCadillac sets up distribution network in Europe
GM is creating a new organisation for the import, distribution and marketing of Cadillac models to Europe from the US. Called Cadillac Europe, the vehicles will retail through a fully-authorised Cadillac sales and service network and will include the CTS Coupe by the autumn of this year. The move comes ...
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FeatureArvinMeritor expands distribution centre in Mexico
Commercial vehicle parts provider ArvinMeritor has opened a new aftermarket parts distribution centre at its axle manufacturing plant near Monterrey in Mexico. The warehouse, which is 20% bigger than the company’s previous facility at 3,270m2, will now serve more than 300 dealer and parts distributors in Latin America and Mexico ...