All Europe articles – Page 166
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FeatureHoegh targets ro-ro in Russia
Norwegian car carrier Höegh Autoliners has held an official reception to mark the opening of its first office in Russia and to present the company’s ro-ro services to customers in the country, including the new build 228m vessel M/V Hoegh St.Petersburg, a model of which was on display at the ...
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FeaturePorsche recognises DB for Leipzig rail solution
Autotransport Logistic (ATG), the automotive division of DB Schenker Rail, was one of the recipients of this year’s Porsche Supplier Awards, presented at the carmaker’s plant in Leipzig last weekend. ATG provides Porsche with intermodal rail and road logistics and the award was in recognition of a special rail transport ...
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FeatureA Chinese Volvo opens doors for providers
Until the ink dries on Geely’s $1.8 billion takeover of Volvo Cars from Ford, announced last weekend, the supply chain and logistics implications remain uncertain. However, early speculation suggests that the Sino-Swedish partnership should open wider the door into China for Volvo and its supply base, while at the same ...
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Another win for VW and Inform
Inform and Volkswagen are the joint winners of this year’s elogistics Award from AKJ Automotive for an inbound control and appointment system being used at the carmaker’s Wolfsburg plant in Germany. AKJ Automotive is a body made up of experts and executives from the automotive and supply industry and each ...
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FeatureGefco extends support for PSA in Portugal
Gefco has invested €350,000 ($467,000) in a new facility in Mangualde, Portugal to externalise inbound logistics operations for the neighbouring PSA Peugeot Citroën plant which makes Citroën Berlingo First and Peugeot Partner Origin vehicles. The new activity builds on distribution of finished vehicles from the plant, which Gefco has been ...
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FeatureDelivery error claims exaggerated says Honda
Reports circulated yesterday that up to 1,300 Honda customers in the UK were looking at delays of up to four months for the delivery of their vehicles following a computer error at the carmaker’s Swindon plant have been exaggerated, according to the company. The error affecting Honda’s logistics system stemmed ...
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FeatureFiat to take over Chrysler distribution
Beginning next month in Italy, Fiat will begin a two-year process aimed at taking over vehicle logistics and parts distribution in Europe for Chrysler as part of a wider sales and service integration between the two carmakers. Fiat took a controlling 20% stake in Chrysler Group last June when the ...
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FeatureBlack cab production moves to China
Body and chassis production of the iconic London black cab is moving to Shanghai from its UK base in Coventry following a decision by owner Manganese Bronze to hand over a controlling stake to Chinese carmaker Geely. The Coventry facility, operated by subsidiary London Taxi International (LTI), will now just ...
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FeatureBMW builds business with LSP in Bavaria
Germany’s Gillhuber Logistik is extending its logistics provision for BMW from April by handling all interplant movements of components between the carmaker’s facilities in Bavaria (including Dingolfing, Landshut, Munich, Regensburg and Wackersdorf), as well as all truck runs north from the Bavarian locations to BMW’s factory in Leipzig. Gillhuber will ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Mahindra Logistics has appointed Pirojshaw (Phil) Sarkari (pictured) as its new CEO following the departure of Sanjay Sinha, who has left the Mahindra Group to pursue “other interests”. Sarkari has over 18 years of experience in the logistics and airline businesses and his last assignment was as managing director and ...
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FeatureNYK targets China and Kazakhstan
NYK Logistics (China) has opened a new branch in Nanjing that will include automotive support for Chang’an Mazda Ford as it prepares to increase output in the country. “The customer is the auto parts vendor of the Changan Mazda Ford Nanjing factory. We are now handling their import/export operation, warehouse ...
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FeatureLogistics providers celebrated in supplier awards
Logistics providers were once again among the 76 recipients of the GM Supplier of the Year awards held at the GM Design Dome in Warren, Michigan last Thursday. ECM (Vehicle Delivery Service), FedEx, Grimaldi, Höegh, K-Line, Ryder and TMS were among those recognised. “The Supplier of the Year award is ...
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FeatureVehicle logistics more flexible than auto sector
The Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG) published a report this week that aims to convince banks that the European outbound vehicle logistics is a credit- and investment-worthy sector. The report highlights that, while fundamentally linked to the wider automotive industry, companies working in outbound vehicle logistics generally benefit from ...
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FeatureSovereign offer solution to supply chain visibility
Day two of last week’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference in Bonn, Germany, took the form of workshops where delegates focused on a range of interests including information systems, service parts and the impact of the recession on the logistics and supply chains of tier suppliers. Discussions focusing on outbound movements ...
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FeatureVW begins box trials between Germany and Russia
Volkswagen is testing a new automotive box solution for the movement of parts by rail, beginning with shipments between its Wolfsburg plant in Germany and its plant in Kaluga, Russia. The box has been designed by Schenker Automotive Railnet in cooperation with Volkswagen Logistics and from April DB Schenker will ...
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FeatureRenault transforms logistics for boost at Avtoframos
Renault is implementing a number of logistics measures to support increased capacity at its Avtoframos plant in Moscow, including a multimodal solution for parts supply from its parts plant in Pitesti, Romania and new tenders for LSPs to manage the supply of local parts as part of its plans to ...
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FeatureAlliance sets tough target for logistics
Renault and Nissan have set ambitious targets for cutting cost as a result of merging their supply chain divisions into a single logistics entity for the extended European region, it emerged last week at the Automotive Logistics Europe conference, with logistics providers expected to make a significant contribution. What ...
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FeatureFord is bringing Vista to Asia Pacific Africa
With Ford's plans to treble production capacity in Asia Pacific and Africa (APA) by 2012, it is bringing both its global manufacturing and logistics processes, as well as its best IT systems to the region. Most notably, Ford is in the process of rolling of its European order-to-delivery system, Vista, ...
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FeatureRETRACK research moves vehicles to rail
A new weekly rail service, which will carry finished vehicles and automotive parts along with agribulk and chemical products between Cologne in Germany and Györ, Hungary, has been launched as part of a European research project on innovative rail freight concepts. The project, called RETRACK (REorganisation of Transport networks by ...
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FeaturePremium freight and pressing needs for TRW
TRW Automotive’s premium freight movements in Europe will now be handled by Roberts Europe across 12 countries following a contract signed between the two companies at the end of February. Full implementation of the service is expected within the next four to six weeks. TRW makes a range of vehicle ...