All Europe articles – Page 121

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    Brazil concerned over parts trade

    2013-03-20T00:00:00Z

    The Brazilian automotive parts industry is worried by two recent developments affecting trade with its neighbours Argentina and Mexico. In the first, the government of Argentina is to revise the automotive agreement it has with Brazil to favour the local production of components. Secondly, imported parts from Mexico are ...

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    Legislation could benefit modal shift in Europe

    2013-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Carmakers and logistics providers are doing their best to cope with the sixth straight year of decline in European sales by adjusting transport networks to find efficiency savings and to better serve growing markets abroad. However, their efforts in finding more efficient multimodal solutions could be better supported by ...

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    Carmakers look at supply chain barriers

    2013-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Reducing barriers in the supply chain could provide gains of between 5-6% greater than those gained by removing tariffs, equal to a GDP boost of $2 trillion, with direct benefits for the automotive industry. Speaking at last week’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference in Germany, Sean Doherty, director of ...

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    Global round up: JAC to boost exports; Supply chain mapping tool; Renault renews with TNT; GM Supplier Awards

    2013-03-20T00:00:00Z

    JAC plans to boost global exportsChinese carmaker Jianghuai Automobile (JAC) said it intends to sell more than 1.6m cars by the end of the 2015 with exports accounting for 25% of the volume. The company’s largest market share is in South America and last year it reported exports there ...

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    Executives on the move: Conway Jeffress, Greg Henninger, Hiroto Saikawa, Anthony Laydon, Anthony Laydon, Connie Tang,

    2013-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Conway Jeffress has settled into his new role as global director of automotive at freight forwarding and logistics provider, Jas Forwarding Worldwide. Jeffress was previously vice-president of automotive at Panalpina but said that because of its restructuring of industry verticals and executive responsibilities, the time was right to make ...

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    Agromash to make and move Peugeots

    2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

    PSA Peugeot-Citroën has signed an agreement with Agromash Holding for the assembly and distribution of the passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Kazakhstan. Agromash Holding is one of Kazakhstan’s largest producers of vehicles and agricultural equipment. According to the agreement, Agromash will start building the vehicles this coming ...

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    Agromash to make and move Peugeots

    2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

    PSA Peugeot-Citroën has signed an agreement with Agromash Holding for the assembly and distribution of the passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Kazakhstan. Agromash Holding is one of Kazakhstan’s largest producers of vehicles and agricultural equipment. According to the agreement, Agromash will start building the vehicles this coming ...

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    Agromash to make and move Peugeots

    2013-03-13T00:00:00Z

    PSA Peugeot-Citroën has signed an agreement with Agromash Holding for the assembly and distribution of the passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Kazakhstan. Agromash Holding is one of Kazakhstan’s largest producers of vehicles and agricultural equipment. According to the agreement, Agromash will start building the vehicles this coming ...

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    EcoSport could be shipped to Europe from India

    2013-03-06T00:00:00Z

    Unconfirmed reports coming out of the Geneva Motor show this week suggest that Ford is planning to export its EcoSport SUV from India to supply the European and UK markets later this year. The vehicle went into production at Ford India’s Maraimalai Nagar plant near Chennai for the local ...

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    Executives on the move: Karl May, Roland Gentsch, Craig Jasienski, Glenn Edvardsen, Reinhard Lange,

    2013-03-06T00:00:00Z

    As part of wider organisational changes at BMW, it has been confirmed that Dr Karl May, formerly head of logistics, design and supply networks, has taken up a new position in outbound logistics at the carmaker as head of Vehicle Distribution and VDCs (vehicle distribution centres). In his previous ...

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    In conversation with... Scott Sharland, AIAG

    2013-03-06T00:00:00Z

    It is hard to find any positive aspects to a recession but if it could do any good it has made stakeholders in the automotive industry aware of how interdependent they are; fertile ground for collaboration according to Scot Sharland, executive director of the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG). ...

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    Global round up: New Flyer buys Orion; MacGregor for Grimaldi; SmartAuction adds ShipCarsNow; DS Smith wins awards;

    2013-03-06T00:00:00Z

    New Flyer buys Orion aftermarket businessNew Flyer Industries, which makes heavy-duty transit buses in the US and Canada, has bought the Orion aftermarket parts business from Daimler Buses North America (DBNA) for $29m. The move follows an investment of C$517m ($501m) in New Flyer by bus maker Marcopolo. ...

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    Toyota to export US-Venza to Russia

    2013-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Toyota will start exporting its Venza crossover SUV from the US to Russia and the Ukraine from April this year. The vehicle is being produced at Toyota Motor North America’s Georgetown plant in Kentucky and the company aims to export around 5,000 units in the first year via the ...

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    Gefco signs contract with Setram on exports

    2013-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Spanish logistics provider and terminal operator Setram has signed a contract with Gefco to handle the movement of finished vehicles from France to the port of Barcelona. The vehicles, which were previously dispatched from other European ports, will be loaded there for shipment to Algeria.Around 17,000 Peugeot-Citroën vehicles will ...

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    More cars through Lazaro Cardenas

    2013-02-27T00:00:00Z

    In 2012, the Mexican Port of Lazaro Cárdenas is reported to have increased the number of finished vehicles it handled by nearly 30% from more than 167,000 units in 2011 to around 213,500 units (of which 172,527 were imported and 40,937 exported).Amongst the carmakers using the port is ...

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    Executives on the move: Andreas Renschle, Wolfgang Bernhard, Tetsuo Iwamura, Hidenobu Iwata, Dan Smith, Jerry Chenkin, Marty Coalson, Monica Franco, Tom Jendrowski, Markus Machers, Tex Gunning, Berna

    2013-02-27T00:00:00Z

    Daimler is extending leadership contracts for Dieter Zetsche and Thomas Weber, as well as assigning new responsibilities for Andreas Renschler and Wolfgang Bernhard.The carmaker said Zetsche’s contract as chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler and head of Mercedes-Benz Cars would run until December 31, 2016. It is ...

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    Global round up: GM fights fraud; Antwerp stops added goods; CFLP awards Union Pacific; Michelin chooses JDA; Hellman opts for reusable packaging;

    2013-02-27T00:00:00Z

    GM teams up in Saudi Arabia to fight counterfeit tradeGeneral Motors Middle East is teaming up with its largest dealer in Saudi Arabia, Aljomaih Automotive Company (AAC), to sponsor the Third Arab Forum for the Prevention of Commercial Fraud and Imitation and the Protection of Intellectual Rights, to be ...

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    Sollers jv builds Toyota SUV in Vladivostok

    2013-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Sollers-Bussan, a 50:50 joint venture between the Russian vehicle maker Sollers and Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co, has started contract assembly of Toyota’s Land Cruiser Prado SUV at its plant in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East region. Initial production capacity is set at around 1,000 vehicles a ...

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    Budget cut a missed transport opportunity

    2013-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s European Union budget agreement, which will see a third of funding cut from the €32 billion ($42.8 billion) originally marked for transport infrastructure projects, has been described as a “missed opportunity” by a collection of transport-related associations across the continent and transport modes, including Association of European ...

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    Global round up: Finnlines diverts from Syria; K Line delivers motorcycles; BMW builds new facilities in US; Schenker expands in UK; Service links Koper and Black Sea

    2013-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Finnlines forced to divert vessel on route to SyriaEuropean short sea operator Finnlines, part of the Grimaldi Group, has reported that it was forced to divert its ro-ro vessel MV Finnsun to Helsinki in Finland from the Belgian port of Antwerp on route to Syria following the discovery of ...