All Europe articles – Page 133
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FeatureToyota centre widens reach across Spain
Toyota Motor Europe has officially started of operations at its newly relocated parts centre in Illescas, 40km south of Madrid. The company had its previous centre to the north of the capital at San Agustín de Guadalix. Toyota has invested €26.7m ($33.3m) in the new 19,600m_ facility, called Toyota ...
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FeatureCeva expands in Iberia and Philippines
Ceva Logistics has signed a three-year contract with Mercedes-Benz to manage the shipment of spare parts from the Iberian Peninsula to its dealer network in the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, located in North Africa. Ceva will handle the collection of ...
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FeatureVeracruz is top auto port but faces capacity issues
The port of Veracruz on Mexico's East Coast increased vehicle throughput by almost 30% in 2011 to become the top car-handling port in North America, with a total of 753,685 units moved, including 588,000 exports. Carmakers including VW, Ford and Nissan are using Veracruz for both import and ...
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FeatureCanadian Pacific resumes services after strike
A nine-day strike at Canada's second largest rail provider, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), which brought all freight operations to a standstill, was brought to an end last Friday following the passing of a government back-to-work bill late on Thursday. The strike, which included around 4,800 locomotive engineers, conductors and ...
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FeatureFreight rates - sea and air May 2012
Container shipping spot rates on the Asia-Europe trade soared in the early part of the year, rising nearly fourfold from December to early May before starting to fall again. According to Drewry analyst Martin Dixon, carriers focused on rate recovery in an attempt to restore profitability. To support these initiatives, ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Congestion at Zarate forces WWL suspensionFollowing last week’s news that the vehicle terminal at the Argentine port of Zárate was suffering severe congestion, with vessels unable to unload, ocean forwarder Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has said it has suspended its service to the port.“Congestion at the port has increasingly ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Mike Dickinson has taken up a new role as director of Order Management and Logistics at Qoros Auto, the 50:50 joint venture between Chinese carmaker Chery Auto and Israel Corporation.Dickinson moves from his role as supply chain director at GM International Operations (GMIO) and will now be ...
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FeatureNorbert Dentressangle invests in contract with Vauxhall
GM Europe’s division in the UK, Vauxhall Motors, has signed a three-year contract extension with transport and logistics provider Norbert Dentressangle for the overnight distribution of automotive parts to 300 UK Vauxhall and Chevrolet dealers.The latest contract extension builds on a 12-year relationship between Vauxhall and Norbert Dentressangle for ...
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FeatureWWL calls for critical mass on fuel strategy
Following the European Parliament’s confirmation that it will not apply a five-year extension to the introduction of MARPOL regulations governing sulphur content of bunker fuels (read more here), the shipping industry is now faced with the unavoidable prospect of forwarding goods with a maximum limit 0.1% sulphur content in ...
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FeatureAGCO invests in African PDC
Agricultural machinery maker, AGCO, has broken ground on a parts distribution centre at Pomona near Johannesburg, South Africa, which it will run with distribution partner Barloworld. The centre expected to be complete by the end of the year.The PDC will hold 40,000 parts and will be situated near the ...
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FeatureZarate faces gridlock
Argentina's Terminal Zárate is reported to be facing significant import congestion, with 17,000 vehicles clogging its parking area and seven vessels awaiting discharge. Although the automotive sector was designated a growth area by the country's president, it continues to generate problems. At the beginning of the year, sales ...
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FeatureEU rejects extension of shipping sulphur limits
The European Parliament has confirmed today that the EU will adopt stricter regulations on sulphur limits in shipping fuels by 2015 and that it will not apply a five-year extension, as had been debated last week during negotiations between the Parliament, European Council and European Commission. The news ...
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FeatureGMSA recognises LSPs in supplier awards
GM South Africa has announced its supplier award winners for services provided in 2011 at an event held in Port Elizabeth last week, with recognition for logistics providers Bidvest Panalpina Logistics, BLG Logistics of South Africa and UTI Sun Couriers. BLG received the award for the provision of ...
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FeatureAuto trade shows strong growth
The automotive industry is out in front when it comes to the global trade in goods but could cut costs with some innovative thinking about rail for finished vehicles.Speaking at the beginning of this week’s RoRoEx conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, Mike Garratt, managing director of MDS Transmodal, pointed out ...
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FeatureAstra decision will increase local content
Last week’s announcement that Vauxhall’s plant at Ellesmere Port in the UK has secured production of the next-generation Astra compact in 2015 will be a boost to the UK supply chain, with the carmaker confirming that it intends to raise local content to 25%, up from around 10% ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Santos Brasil and Schaeffler sign distribution agreementTerminal operator Santos Brasil has signed a five-year contract with the German engineering multinational Schaeffler, which has a manufacturing plant in the Brazilian city of Sorocaba, from where it supplies the entire domestic and export automotive production sector with a range of ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
ABP invests £25m for improved access at GrimsbyAssociated British Ports (ABP) have released further details of the start of work on its £25m Grimsby Riverside Ro-Ro Terminal. The development heralds the largest-ever capital investment in the port of Grimsby and will offer significantly improved access for vehicle imports and ...
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FeaturePort services in Europe are uneven
The European Commission has highlighted the need for revised legislation on the provision of ports services across the region because development and integration with the wider logistics network remains uneven. In an official statement released last week the Commission said that currently there is "a patchwork of national ...
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FeatureFord and Penske awarded for supply chain solution
Ford and Penske Logistics have been jointly awarded this year's European Award for Logistics Excellence by the European Logistics Association (ELA) at an event held last week in the Ukraine capital Kiev. The award recognised their jointly-developed Network Integrator concept, which provides a single distribution platform for a ...
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FeatureAutomotive sector can't rest on its laurels
When it comes to collaborating on innovations in logistics, the automotive industry is good at confirming the merits of its own success but, at the risk of seeming conceited, is less good at looking beyond the sector at solutions from other industries, something that is causing it ...