All articles by Automotive Logistics – Page 79

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    Collapse means growth for packaging supplier

    2009-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Netherlands-headquartered packing provider VMT Ecopack has won Frost and Sullivan’s 2009 European Automotive Packaging Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year Award in recognition of its demonstration of “an exceptional growth strategy” within the automotive industry. “The commitment to reduce the logistics costs of its customers through innovative packaging solutions is ...

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    PowerID helps CHEP with RFID in South Africa

    2009-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Pallet and container pooling provider CHEP is currently rolling out the use of a battery-assisted, passive (BAP) RFID tags provided by PowerID to track pallets and FLC containers for its automotive and retail customers in South Africa. CHEP, which has been working with PowerID since early 2008, opted for the ...

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    Nano is moving by rail

    2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Indian carmaker Tata, which handed over the keys to its first Nano customer earlier this month, has begun deliveries in earnest of the world’s cheapest new car, and has also begun moving the car by rail, according Prem K Verma, the CEO of Tata Motors Limited Distribution Company (TMLD), the ...

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    VW to cut logistics cost at Kaluga

    2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Hoping to attract international suppliers to its operation in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen Group Rus is taking a leading role in the development of a new industrial complex in the Grabtsevo industrial zone. The carmaker has been allocated 800 hectares in the new ‘A-Park project’. Half of that space will be ...

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    CNH fights downturn with global contracts

    2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Case New Holland, a subsidiary of Fiat, has signed three global logistics contracts while undergoing reorganisation in the face of a dramatic drop in the demand for agricultural and construction equipment worldwide. CNH Global’s sales for the second quarter dropped 33% to $3.6 billion, compared with $5.3 billion for the ...

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    US carriers find a new way to fill empty miles

    2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

    As logistics providers struggle to fill empty miles and improve efficiency, Hybrid Intermodal Transportation (HIT) has completed final equipment tests for its new Road Pod container solution with Allied Automotive Group and CSX Corporation in the US. Allied Automotive Group is the largest car and light truck carrier in North ...

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    Frost & Sullivan award superior performers

    2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

    DB Schenker and NYK Logistics reaped rewards at Frost & Sullivan’s 2009 Asia Pacific Transportation & Logistics Awards held last Thursday at the Intercontinental Singapore. A total of 37 awards were given to companies in recognition of their outstanding achievement and superior performance in the region across a range of ...

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    Full ESteam ahead for Opel inbound

    2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Opel has a new logistics service provider for all inbound deliveries to its German plants and regional distribution centres in the Rhein-Ruhr/Mannheim and Saarland region. The new contract, which starts at the beginning of August, follows the insolvency of Opel’s previous provider Lueg. The new company, a 50:50 joint venture ...

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    An investment partner for Partner Shipping

    2009-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Partner Shipping, which entered the car carrier and ro-ro market last year, has found an investor to capitalise the company as it seeks to expand its ocean services. Siem Industries, an industrial group with activity in oil, gas and shipping, has invested in 50% of the company, with the other ...

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    The small are surviving in finished vehicles at UPS

    2009-07-22T00:00:00Z

    UPS Automotive Industry Solutions, the finished vehicle arm of the American logistics giant, is defying the downward trends in the automotive industry and has maintained growth in its revenue above 2008 levels so far this year, according to Paul Hargadon, General Manager for the division. Hargadon declined to give ...

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    A different face for premium freight

    2009-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Several asset-light premium freight third party logistics providers to the automotive industry in Europe have told Automotive Logistics that, following several months when business nearly disappeared, their revenue and performance is now beginning to match or outpace that of 2008, although the processes around such freight appear to be gaining ...

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    Ford's Frederiek Toney to lead Customer Service division

    2009-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Frederiek Toney (pictured) will become Vice President, Ford Customer Service Division and a corporate officer of Ford from September 1st this year. Currently the Executive Director, Global Material Planning and Logistics (MP&L), Toney has been among the key figures in driving change and collaboration in Ford’s North American and global ...

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    Toyota and Nissan localise electric cars in Europe

    2009-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Pictured, left to right: Katsunore Kojima, MD Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK, Tadashi Arashima, President Toyota Motor Europe, Lord Peter Mandelson, UK Business Secretary Announcements last week that Toyota will begin its first hybrid production in Europe at its Burnaston factory in the UK, along with Nissan’s revelation that it ...

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    After a decade, WWL looks even more to logistics

    2009-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Car carrier and finished vehicle logistics provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), while its shipping revenue and profits have reeled from the drop in car sales and overcapacity of ro-ro tonnage, has achieved more stability and new business for its logistics and land operations, according to CEO Arild Iversen (pictured). To ...

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    VW opens first logistics service facility in India

    2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Volkswagen has completed work on a Logistics Service Facility at its Aurangabad plant in India for the supply of spare parts to Audi, Skoda and VW brand vehicles. It is the first such facility the German carmaker has established in the country and has been set up as part of ...

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    Nissan will export Micra from India

    2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Nissan will begin exporting the next Micra from its new factory in Oragadam near Chennai, India once production begins there in the middle of next year. Exports could account for 60-70% of production. The factory, which will have an annual capacity of 200,000, is slated to begin production by May ...

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    Pasha deal sees Hyundai-Kias delivered to San Diego

    2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

    As South Korea seeks free trade agreements around the world, the country’s leading carmaker isn’t waiting for tariffs to fall as it continues to export to foreign markets. Next Monday sees the first delivery of Hyundai-Kia vehicles to the US port of San Diego under a new three-year agreement between ...

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    Ford and GM choose Ceva

    2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Ceva Logistics has landed an inbound contract with Ford for its Kentucky truck plant in the US and at the same time has expanded its contract with General Motors in Brazil to include two new operations. At Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville (pictured) the company has launched a new ...

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    WWL Cruzes into Bristol

    2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has delivered 2,133 Chevrolets to the UK aboard its PCTC M/V Tijuca. The vehicles were offloaded at Portbury, Bristol and included the first customer-ordered Cruze models for the UK market, ready for debut in dealerships this month. The Tijuca began service this year and is the biggest ...

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    Potential EU-Korea trade agreement riles the ACEA...

    2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

    The European Union and South Korea were still not ready to sign off a free trade agreement (FTA) when talks concluded on Monday in Stockholm, Sweden, thanks to “outstanding questions” from some EU members and opposition by European carmakers about the threat to European manufacturing they say that the policy ...