All Feature articles – Page 29
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Nissan North America: On track to cut container pool shrinkage
Container pool shrinkage is an issue that has a costly impact on OEMs and tier suppliers across the automotive industry. At various points in the extended supply chains which support today’s vehicle manufacturing operations, containers go missing, are misused or are even stolen to be resold and used elsewhere
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Ideas Labs
Join us this year at our industry leading Ideas Labs Ideas Labs are practical, solutions-orientated workshops led by supply chain and technology leaders, and designed for collective exploration of complex challenges. Expect to leave with new ideas, action plans and new contacts. Conference day 1: Wednesday 9 October 2019 ...
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Autonomy ahoy: Shipping industry moves toward crewless vessels
Autonomous vehicles have been attracting a lot of attention as the automotive industry pushes towards future mobility. But what is the potential for autonomous ships?
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Gaz Group rolls towards bankruptcy
The Russian carmaker is desperately urging the US government to abandon sanctions against it before the company falls into bankruptcy. Oleg Deripaska, owner of Gaz, warned that July 4, when the existing sanctions are due to come into full effect, could be the last functional day of its production operations.
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Kenya halts import of used car parts
Kenya is enforcing a ban on the import of used vehicle spares in a bid to tackle the existing chaos in the trade of used cars and spares. However, the move could impact tens of thousands of unofficial dealers…
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South Africa's dream of an EV supply base
Despite negligible EV sales at home, South Africa is looking to become an exporter of their components and is putting an incentives scheme into place. But can it succeed?
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All mixed up: the impact of the SUV trend on European car carriers
Volumes of finished vehicles may have recovered from the recession, but users and manufacturers of car transporters are now having to handle a very different array of vehicles, including larger and heavier models – with implications for capacity utilisation
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Ultima Media hires automotive analyst
Daniel Harrison is joining the B2B media business which owns a portfolio of brands and channels including Automotive Logistics, Automotive Manufacturing Solutions, Car Design News and automotiveIT International
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Luis Zurita
Commercial Manager, Mexico Operations
Horizon Terminal ServicesLuis Eduardo is currently responsible for the commercial function of Horizon Auto Logistics, providing OEMs and other customers with customized solutions to their supply chain requirements. He has a considerable amount of experience in the Finished Vehicle Logistics industry and has contributed to the development, launch and ...
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Humanitarian award
Finished Vehicle Logistics presented a very special Humanitarian award to Jim Gerencer, Founder and president of Nationwide for starting the Early Recognition Is Critical Foundation (ERIC). Jim founded Eric after his son Eric was diagnosed with cancer and the foundation was started with the intention of providing ...
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FVL Most Collaborative OEM award
Suburu of America winner’s of ‘the industry choice’ FVL Most Collaborative OEM award The finalists for ‘the industry choice’ Most Collaborative OEM award include: American Honda Subaru of America Toyota Volkswagen of America The winner for the FVL Most Collaborative ...
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FVL Customer Innovation award
Wallenius Wilhelmsen: winner of the FVL Customer Innovation award The Finalists: CFR Rinkens – Containerization with Racking Systems Nationwide – Nationwide Auto Services’ Rapid Response Services Teams/ Gold Standard Quality Control process Wallenius Wilhelmsen – Wallenius Wilhelmsen partner with ...
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FVL OEM Supply Chain of the Year award
ICL - Winner of the FVL OEM Supply Chain of the Year award The Finalists: Horizon Terminals: Providing supply chain efficiencies to the OEM industry ICL: Maintaining FCA North America Finished Vehicle Network Fluidity United Road: United Road North American ...
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FVL Road Innovation award
Car Delievery Network - winners of the FVL Road Innovation award The Finalists Car Delivery Network – Electronic Proof of Delivery Fracht – The North American Logistics Alliance powered by ALCS Jack Cooper – Da Vinci Tool ...
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FVL Safety First Award
Jack Cooper winner of the FVL Safety First award The Finalists: Accelerated Services – accident plan app Jack Cooper – Project Zero The winner for the FVL Safety First award: Jack Cooper for their Project Zero
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FVL Partnership award
AMPORTS winner of the FVL Partnership Award Finalists: AMPORTS: Partnership with Jaguar Land Rover (Baltimore, MD) and Porsche Canadian Pacific: Vancouver Auto Compound VPS: BMW Manufacturing Company, Fluor Corporation, TransDevelopment Group, and VPS for BMW Manufacturing Company’s Hail Protection ...
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FVL Top Quality award
KhS: Winner of the FVL Top Quality award The Finalists: AMPORTS: Partnership with Jaguar Land Rover (Baltimore, MD) and Porsche Canadian Pacific: Vancouver Auto Compound VPS: BMW Manufacturing Company, Fluor Corporation, TransDevelopment Group, and VPS for BMW ...
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FVL Better Visibilty award
ICL - Winner of the Better Visability award The Finalists: ICL – Vehicle Inventory Visualization (VIV) reporting suite INFORM – Central Planning & Optimization Vascor – FVS Mobile The winner for the FVL Better Visibility: ICL for their Vehicle ...