All articles by Automotive Logistics – Page 76
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FeatureWorld-ranked K+N gets BMW contract in Japan
Kuehne + Nagel has secured a three-year contract with BMW for the management of its spare parts distribution centre in Japan. From the 18,000m2 centre, located near Narita and its international airport (60km east of Tokyo), Kuehne + Nagel will provide a range of services including receiving, inventory control, picking ...
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FeatureLogistics is holding South Africa back
An inefficient supply chain, high logistics and port handling costs could cause carmakers in South Africa to lose future production volumes to global competitors in Asia, South America and even the EU, according to executives at last week’s South African Automotive Week in Port Elizabeth. Total costs for South Africa’s ...
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FeatureAre supplier parks the answer for South Africa?
As the South African automotive industry has struggled with a chronically underdeveloped local supplier base, leading to higher logistics cost and poorer manufacturing productivity, both industry and government in the country are making efforts to improve the supply chain’s efficiencies by developing supplier parks and logistics centres based near plants ...
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FeatureWhat will Pepy's plan mean for LSPs?
The news that the French government is investing over €7 billion to increase the amount of freight moved by rail in the country, with SNCF contributing €1 billion of its own funds, has brought with it questions related to further cost and quality for carmakers and LSPs. It is the ...
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FeatureGM revises pay plan for suppliers
From 1 November this year GM will start paying its parts and logistics service providers every week rather than every 47 days in a move to improve the company’s cash flow and better support struggling suppliers. Many suppliers awaiting payment have been forced to rely on credit lines to cover ...
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FeatureNYK Logistics to continue supply contract at Crewe
Volkswagen Logistics has extended its contract with NYK Logistics for inbound delivery of components to the Bentley Motors’ manufacturing facility in Crewe, UK. NYK Logistics is responsible for the delivery of around 6,000 different parts into the plant from 150 UK-based suppliers and a further 460 throughout Europe. Bentley parts ...
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FeatureMagna chooses K+N for inbound to Russia
Magna International’s vehicle exteriors division has chosen Kuehne + Nagel to handle the inbound logistics feed to its production site in Kaluga, Russia to support the supply of components for Volkswagen. Magna Exteriors & Interiors is currently producing front end cooling modules on Tiguan and Octavia models for VW’s Kaluga ...
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BLG and ViDi promise growth for Ukraine
BLG Logistics has strengthened its links to the Ukrainian and wider Eastern European automotive markets with the signing of a new joint venture contract with ViDi Group. Called BLG ViDi Logistics, the company is investing a total of €28.6m in a logistics terminal in Kalinovka near Kiev, with initial ...
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FeatureStay close on the bumpy road ahead
Flexibility in the supply chain remains the most important challenge for OEMs and LSPs according to surveys held at last week’s Automotive Logistics Global conference in Dearborn, and crucial to maintaining that flexibility was the ability to share information and remain innovative, something that needs improve and quickly. The surveys ...
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Executives on the move
Ceva Logistics has appointed Caio Najm (pictured) as general director in Brazil, replacing Giuseppe De Vincenzo, who leaves Ceva Brazil after six years to pursue a new role with Ceva outside the country. Najm has more than 25 years of experience, having worked in companies including Compañia Transportadora, Coml. Translor ...
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FeatureRolf sells distribution share to Mitsubishi Corp
Russian vehicle distributor Rolf has said it may not be able to continue trading unless a new transaction agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation gets the go ahead at the end of October. In one of three separate but mutually dependent transactions, Rolf, which is Mitsubishi Motor’s largest distributor, will sell 40% ...
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FeatureCautious reaction to scrappage extension in UK
Monday’s announcement by the UK’s business secretary Lord Mandelson that the UK scrappage scheme would be extended for a further 100,000 vehicles has been cautiously welcomed by carmakers around the country who were keen to stress that any lift was very much part of a wider European set of initiatives. ...
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FeatureCarmakers don't want the inventory
The historically low finished vehicle inventory levels in North America are here to stay, according to several carmakers speaking on day one of the 10th Automotive Logistics Global conference in Detroit this week. Keynote speaker Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s group vice president, global manufacturing and labour affairs (pictured), admitting that the ...
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FeatureRenault uses Frankfurt to award suppliers
Renault used the Frankfurt Motor Show to announce the winners of its Supplier Quality Awards for 2008 and they included Austria’s Lagermax AED, which received a global award for “its proactive approach to optimising logistics flows”. AED, or Alltime Express Distribution, was developed by Lagermax to cater for the delivery ...
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FeatureNYK celebrates 20 years in Belgium
Following the recent integration of spare parts deliveries for Kia dealerships in Belgium and Luxembourg (read more here), NYK Logistics Belgium has celebrated its 20th anniversary in the country. The first ship NYK sent from Japan to Europe made its first port of call at Antwerp in 1896 establishing ties ...
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FeatureWhat does sustainable shipping really look like?
Automotive shipping companies have been flexing their PR muscles in preparation for this year’s World Maritime Day, the International Maritime Organisation’s annual global event, which concentrates attention on environmentally conscious and safer shipping practice. This year’s event, which takes place on Thursday this week, focuses on the reduction of greenhouse ...
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FeatureVW explores new routes into Russia
As part of a number of options being explored by Volkswagen for new logistics routes into the Russian market, the German carmaker has completed a test delivery of vehicles to the Port of St Petersburg. The mix of passenger and commercial vehicles – 50 VW Golf and 50 VW Crafter ...
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FeatureUkraine honour for EH Harms execs
The Ukrainian government has awarded three executives from E.H.Harms Automobile Logistics Ukraine with the Honorary Certificate of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers for outstanding services to the country. Pavel Byglevski (pictured), manager of the joint venture, was joined by ViDi Group managers Ruslan Semchuk and Viacheslav Bevza “for [their] special ...
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FeatureHonda Indiana exports Civics to wider markets
Honda’s Greensburg plant in Indiana has shipped its first units of the Civic sedan to Mexico as part of a wider export strategy that also includes markets in Latin America as well as the Caribbean and US territories in Puerto Rico, Guam and Saipan. The first 270 units will arrive ...
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FeatureContinental consolidates tyre distribution in Canada
Continental Tire Canada has picked a poignant moment to officially open its 400,000ft2 distribution warehouse in Oshawa, Ontario. While the row over North American tariffs on Chinese tyre imports continued to rage, last week John Gray, Mayor of Oshawa, Mario La Barbera, President of Pival International, Oliver Winschiers, General Manager ...