All Gefco articles – Page 9
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FeatureGefco expands fleet with Lohr
Gefco has expanded its vehicle carrying fleet in the UK with nine transporters built to a new specification that will allow the logistics provider to carry multiple combinations of vehicles and up to 11 passenger cars at a time. The company said the transporters, provided by Lohr, will enable it ...
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FeatureGefco ready to buy and expand
Gefco, the logistics division of the PSA Peugeot-Citroën Group, is pushing to expand and diversify its vehicle logistics operations and is targeting further acquisitions in European and global markets. The company, which has experienced record growth and profits this year, is aiming to reduce the proportion of PSA business in ...
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FeatureGefco to begin operations in Bulgaria
The logistics subsidiary of PSA Peugeot Citroën, Gefco, will begin automotive logistics operations in Bulgaria from this September and establish relations with current and prospective suppliers as well as small- and medium-size transport firms in the country. Gefco Bulgaria will be based in the capital Sophia and will be headed ...
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Gefco gets EC grant for PSA rail link
Gefco’s rail service for Peugeot Citroën, which is moving semi-knockdown kits (SKDs) from the carmaker’s Vesoul plant in France, on route to the new €470m ($630m) production facility the French carmaker has set up with Mitsubishi in Kaluga, Russia has gained the support of the European Commission’s Marco Polo programme. ...
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FeatureGefco UK gets good news at Sheerness
The UK arm of French logistics operator Gefco received some good news this week related to the long-running dispute it has had with the UK’s Valuation Office Agency (VOA). Gefco UK, which uses land at Sheerness Docks on the south-east coast for vehicle storage, was hit with a bill for ...
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FeatureGefco widens reach with Mercurio stake
Peugeot-Citroën’s logistics arm Gefco is acquiring a controlling 70% share in Italian transport and distribution company Gruppo Mercurio following an agreement signed with Venice European Investments (VEI), the investment fund controlled by holding company Palladio Finanziaria. The figure of the transaction has not been released, though Palladio is reported to ...
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FeatureGefco announces JVs with Russian operators
The Russian division of French logistics provider Gefco used an event alongside last week’s Automotive Logistics Russia conference to announce two new joint ventures in the country – one with full service logistics provider Russian Transport Lines (RTL) and one with rail freight container operator, Transcontainer. The partnership with RTL ...
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FeatureGefco moves PSA parts to Russia
Gefco has launched an exclusive rail freight service for Peugeot Citroën between the carmaker’s Vesoul plant in France and the new production facility the French carmaker is setting up with Mitsubishi in Kaluga, Russia. Production at the €470m ($630m) plant is reported to be starting at the end of April. ...
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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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FeatureGefco secures BIFA award and signals business in Russia
Gefco UK has been recognised as ‘Best in Industry’ in the European Logistics category at this year’s British International Freight Association (BIFA) awards for enhancements to its 2Wheeler Development Project. The awards, which were recently held in London, recognised Gefco’s expansion of the project beyond the UK into a number ...
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FeatureGefco helps PSA target German market
Gefco’s German division has opened a new logistics facility in Kelheim, Lower Bavaria, to shorten lead times for the delivery of Peugeot and Citroën vehicles to dealerships in the region. It is the 16th German location for the global Gefco network and the facility is planned to handle 14,000 Peugeot ...
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FeatureGefco integrates South America service for PSA
Following the announcement that Gefco Brazil is opening a new 6,200m2 logistics hub in Guarulhos, northeast São Paulo to consolidate multi-modal services for PSA Peugeot Citroën, the company’s Director of Transport Logistic Automotive, André Bortolotto (pictured), has told Automotive Logistics this week how the facility will provide a more rapid ...
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FeatureGefco 'justified' in UK port threat over taxes
Gefco is threatening to scale back its automotive business at the UK port of Sheerness in the face of a retrospective rates bill for £3m. In a letter to Sir Peter Westmacott, the British Ambassador in Paris, and seen by The Telegraph, Gefco’s Vice President for Vehicle Transport and Logistics, ...
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FeaturePSA unlikely to sell Gefco
The fate of Peugeot-Citroën’s logistics arm Gefco is now in the hands of former Corus CEO Phillipe Varin (pictured) following the company’s unprecedented decision to oust CEO Christian Strieff on Monday. While no firm plans will be put in place until Varin’s official start date on the June 1, analysts ...
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FeatureGefco receives new UK trailer fleet
Lohr has provided Gefco with a fleet of ten car carrier trailers from its factory in Strasbourg, France that will enable more efficient vehicle transport from the company’s regional distribution centre in Corby, in the English Midlands. The Eurolohr 3.53 UK Hybrid trailers, which allow mixed loads for up to ...
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FeatureGefco provides packaging solution for Ford
Ford has outsourced its materials handling management for engine production at Dagenham in the UK to European logistics provider Gefco UK. The LSP is now helping manage Ford’s container logistics through its GefBoxSystem, which provides reusable plastic boxes, pallets and covers for parts required by engine plant in southeast England ...
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FeatureGefco sets up vehicle storage facility in Chile
Gefco is setting up a subsidiary to provide automotive and logistics activity in Chile following demand there and in the wider South American region. The new business will be based at a storage centre to be developed in Noviciado, near Santiago and will have capacity for 3,500 vehicles from carmakers ...
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FeatureGefco eyes Ford activity in Romania
French logistics provider Gefco is strengthening its position in Central and Eastern Europe and showing interest in supporting Ford activity at the former Daewoo plant in Craiova, Romania, according to the Business Standard Daily.Ford intends to start production there in 2009 following its purchase of 72 per cent of Daewoo ...
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FeatureGefco remains upbeat during the downturn
Gefco’s Chairman and CEO Yves Fargues (pictured left) shrugged off the financial meltdown in the traditional car consumption markets last week, announcing that the PSA-owned logistics service provider is aiming for substantial growth in all its main sectors of business.At a press conference in Deauville he announced plans to hit ...