All articles by Automotive Logistics – Page 71

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    Acumen delivers London taxis

    2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Acumen Automotive Logistics has been awarded a contract by Ontime Automotive to pick up and deliver London taxis for LTI Vehicles. As part of the new contract, Acumen will transport finished vehicles from LTI’s Coventry manufacturing plant and deliver them to the company’s distribution facility in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, on behalf ...

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    Glovis order extends service for Hyundai-Kia

    2010-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Hyundai-owned car carrier Glovis has announced it will spend $191.5m on orders for three new pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) to meet demand from Hyundai and its affiliate Kia Motors. Glovis has said it plans to ship around 440,000 vehicles made by Hyundai and Kia this year. Each of ...

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    Iveco extends RFID solution to Madrid

    2010-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Following Iveco’s renewal of its contract with Kuehne + Nagel for European aftermarket supply (read more here), the commercial truck and bus maker is expanding the RFID system it uses at its Italian distribution centre in Turin to its Madrid facility in Spain. The system, which has been developed in ...

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    Executives on the move

    2010-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Frank Erhardt is Ceva’s new director of contract logistics in Central Europe, replacing Andreas Wagner who is stepping down after eight years at the company. Erhardt was most recently responsible for the automotive/tyres sector within Ceva in Central Europe. He will now oversee the contract logistics business for the ...

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    Fiat-Sollers JV faces logistics challenges

    2010-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Russian carmaker Sollers has signed a €2.4 billion ($3.3 billion) joint venture with Fiat to make up to 500,000 vehicles a year in the country by 2016. The agreement, which may be backed by a 15-year loan of €2.1 billion currently being considered by the Russian government, was signed last ...

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    Carbon reduction scheme gets government backing

    2010-02-17T00:00:00Z

    The UK’s Freight Transport Association has received backing for its Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme from the country’s Department for Transport (DfT) following an announcement this week by Lord Adonis, the Secretary of State for Transport (pictured). In a letter to the FTA confirming the DfT’s support for the scheme, Adonis ...

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    Mazda signs up Ceva for aftermarket supply in Italy

    2010-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Ceva has signed a three-year agreement with Mazda for the distribution of spare parts throughout Italy to 140 of the carmaker’s dealerships and authorised repair outlets. The new contract involves Ceva collecting spare parts on a daily basis from Mazda’s warehouse in Klagenfurt, Austria for transport to Ceva’s distribution centre ...

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    SMMT study shows UK demand for local supply

    2010-02-10T00:00:00Z

    According to independent research commissioned by the UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the majority of volume carmakers in the country are showing a strong interest in sourcing more locally-built components, with one of the principal reasons being the reduction of costs and logistics strain arising from parts ...

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    Local logistics for Ford Figo in Chennai

    2010-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Ford has invested $500m in its engine-making plant near Chennai, India to add flexible production of the Duratec 1.2-litre engine dedicated to the Indian Figo. The first production version of the car was driven off the adjacent assembly line last Friday, when engine production began as well. Ford is using ...

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    CN plans compound to Calgary Logistics Park

    2010-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Following the opening of its new C$14m ($13.4m) automotive compound in Toronto last September, Canada National Railway (CN) has announced plans to build a C$100m logistics park near Calgary, in Alberta province, that will include an automotive compound. The company expects to open the facility – CN Calgary Logistics Park ...

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    NDL brings Bridgestone to TyreFort

    2010-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Bridgestone has joined Goodyear Dunlop UK and Continental as the third tyremaker to use the shared-user facility operated by logistics provider Norbert Dentressangle Logistics (NDL) at the TyreFort facility in Birmingham, UK. While Bridgestone will not use the facility for storage, as Goodyear Dunlop and Continental do, NDL will be ...

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    Renault revives ambition in India

    2010-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Renault has announced plans to set up an independent distribution network in India within the next 30 months to support the movement of several new vehicles from its global portfolio. The move suggests a revival of its plans with Nissan to enter the Indian market more forcefully, as well as ...

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    Logwin extends aftermarket service for BMW

    2010-02-10T00:00:00Z

    Logwin has extended its aftermarket parts distribution service for BMW from the carmaker’s Dealer Metro Distribution Centre (DMDC) in Nuremburg, Germany, adding 30 dealers in the states of Thuringia and Saxony previously served from Berlin. Logwin started handling deliveries of BMW parts to dealerships in Nuremburg and the surrounding area ...

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    Toyota recall reveals need for visibility

    2010-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Toyota’s recall of millions of vehicles in North America, Europe and China because of accelerator pedals that may stick is a complex and expensive logistics operation, with expedited replacements and repair parts shipped to factories and dealers. But logistics might be the least of Toyota’s supply chain management problems, as ...

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    Executives on the move

    2010-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Panalpina’s former vice president of key account management, Alan Votaw, has taken up a new position at the head of the company’s automotive division – Panalpina IV Automotive. Votaw, who has been with Panalpina since January 2002, took up his new role as senior vice president, global head of industry ...

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    JLR renews UK export contract with WWL

    2010-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Jaguar Land Rover has renewed its contract with Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics for the export of vehicles from the UK to North America, Australia and New Zealand. The new contract, which is already underway, will see the shipment of around 45,000 Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) vehicles in 2010 from the ...

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    Government supports green supply chain...

    2010-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Support funds from the European Union and national governments such as the UK do appear to be reaching the automotive supply chain, including logistics, provided the projects are targeting low-carbon vehicles and transport, revealed speakers at a conference in Birmingham last week organised by the European Automotive Strategy Network (EASN). ...

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    STVA becomes majority shareholder in Egerland

    2010-02-03T00:00:00Z

    French finished vehicle carrier STVA has upped its stake in Werner Egerland Automobillogistik from 20% to 74% this week following the retirement of the German logistics company’s managing director, Felicitas Egerland. “Up to now Mrs Egerland has had up to 80% of the shares but, at the age of 80 ...

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    Gefco secures BIFA award and signals business in Russia

    2010-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Gefco UK has been recognised as ‘Best in Industry’ in the European Logistics category at this year’s British International Freight Association (BIFA) awards for enhancements to its 2Wheeler Development Project. The awards, which were recently held in London, recognised Gefco’s expansion of the project beyond the UK into a number ...

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    GM shifts electric motors inhouse

    2010-01-27T00:00:00Z

    GM is bringing the design and manufacture of its electric motors for hybrid and electric vehicles inhouse with an investment of $246m in manufacturing facilities, part of a wider $700m the company is putting into eight Michigan facilities for production of the Volt. The move could have positive implications for ...