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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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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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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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UK sees strategic investments in transporter fleets
UK-based Acumen Logistics Group has taken over finished vehicle carrier Auto UK Logistics to build on the finished vehicle side of it automotive logistics offering. The newly named Acumen Auto Logistics will enlarge Acumen’s transporter fleet and continue to move Land Rovers to UK ports for export. The move follows ...
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FeatureNYK night shift means next day delivery for Kia
NYK Logistics has integrated spare parts deliveries for 90 Kia dealerships in Belgium and Luxembourg through its cross dock centre in the Belgian municipality of Sint-Katelijne-Waver. The move is part of a multi-year contract between the two companies with an annual value of €250,000. Distribution from the centre is taking ...
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FeatureHigh capacity service carries weight
United European Car Carriers (UECC) and the Spanish Port of Santander are launching a new freight service for cars, trailers and high-and-heavy cargo between Santander and the Belgian Port Zeebrugge this month. The service will rely on two high-capacity UECC B-class vessels – the Auto Bank and Auto Bay ...
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FeatureFord begins Romanian production with CKDs
Ford has begun production of the Transit Connect light commercial vehicle at its new plant in Craiova, Romania and will be using the same suppliers that it uses for supply to its Turkish plant in Kocaeli. The Connect vehicles are brought in CKD kits from the Kocaeli facility and are ...
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FeatureTriumph opens tender process for 3PL supplier
Triumph Motorcycles is currently reviewing its European distribution operation and has posted a competitive tender process to find a third party logistics supplier. The company has been using Gefco since 2003. Gefco started working with Triumph by providing a cradle rental service as well as storage and distribution in Italy, ...
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FeatureToyota reports on sustainable logistics in Europe
Toyota has reported an overall reduction of 25,836 tonnes in the C02 emissions from its logistics operations in Europe in 2008. The company’s European Sustainability Report 2009 states that emissions from logistics decreased from 236,481 tonnes in 2007 to 210,645 tonnes in 2008. Along with a manufacturing reduction of 78,000 ...