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News – Page 216
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FeatureUdo Lange joins FedEx Trade Networks
Dr Udo Lange is joining FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding and customs brokerage arm of the global shipping company, as executive vice president and chief operating officer.Lange will be responsible for overseeing all global air and ocean freight forwarding, and customs brokerage operations for the division.“I am excited to ...
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FeatureTony Dent takes up new automotive role at port of Bristol
The Bristol Port Company in the UK has appointed Tony Dent to the newly created role of director - automotive trade. Dent moves from his role at the company as car trade manager. He has been overseeing car operations there for 12 years and prior to that worked in forest ...
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FeatureUTi and Changjiu JV launches weekly China-Europe rail service
Global third party logistics provider, UTi Worldwide, has launched a weekly rail freight service between Harbin in China and Hamburg, Germany in a joint venture involving Changjiu Logistics. Harbin Railway Bureau and Dalian Port Investment are also involved in the venture, which is called HAO Logistics.The service builds on the ...
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FeatureThousands of cars destroyed in Tianjin port explosions
*Updated on 17/08 and 18/08 to include more information*Two huge explosions in the port of Tianjin, near Beijing, have caused devastation to large areas of the city, killed at least 114 people, and left many hundreds injured. Several thousand imported cars stored in a logistics park have also been completely ...
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FeatureIENA 2015 – US ports face funding and capacity crunch
With the growth of the US population expected to grow by 70m people over the next 30 years, the country’s ports are expected to see a huge rise in freight demand and congestion. Without an increase in investment and strategic planning among the government, shippers and port operators this could ...
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FeatureAston Martin opens warehouse and logistics hub near Gaydon assembly facility
Aston Martin is opening of a new multi-million pound warehouse and logistics hub in the UK. Located at Wellesbourne, close to the company's headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, the facility will provide inbound parts handling for the carmaker’s adjacent assembly facility. The 23,000 sq.m logistics centre is the largest storage and ...
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FeatureFord to assemble Ranger trucks in Nigeria from SKD imports this year
Ford will start making Ranger trucks in Nigeria from the fourth quarter of this year at a facility in Ikeja, the latest carmaker to announce production in the country following Nigeria’s introduction of a new automotive industry development plan late in 2013.It is the first country African country outside of ...
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FeatureBLG expands parts logistics activity in Bremen for Daimler
German logistics provider BLG has added a further 28,000 sq.m to its automotive parts facilities in Bremen following the transfer of space at the Freight Village GVZ by real estate developer Panattoni Europe. It brings BLG’s total footprint at the GVZ facilities to more than 200,000 sq.m, across three ...
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FeatureInfor to buy GT Nexus for $675m in Q3
US supply chain software provider, Infor, has announced it is buying GT Nexus, the world's largest cloud-based global commerce platform, for $675m. The buyout is expected to be complete by the end of September this year and will create the first global commerce cloud with end-to-end control and visibility for ...
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FeatureJLR targets Slovakia for plant, citing supply chain and logistics benefits
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has signed a letter of intent with the Slovak government to build its next assembly facility in Nitra, choosing the central European location over others in Europe, the US and Mexico for a 300,000-unit per year factory.In a statement, JLR confirmed that it had chosen the ...
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FeatureRecalls issued on BMW vehicles damaged by winter conditions at Halifax
Following the report earlier this year that harsh winter conditions had resulted in a snow storm burying vehicles at the Autoport facility in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, near the port of Halifax, Transport Canada – the government body that monitors transport safety – has now announced a recall on around ...
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FeatureLifan Motors breaks ground on Russian plant
Chinese carmaker, Lifan Motors, has broken ground on a new $300m facility near the Russian city of Lipetsk, just over 400km southeast of the capital Moscow. The plant, which is planned to be operational by 2017, will make vehicles, initially from complete knockdown (CKD) kits, shipped in from Lifan’s Chongqing ...
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FeatureAM General begins contract production of Merc R-Class in Indiana
US specialist vehicle maker, AM General, has begun contract production of the Mercedes-Benz R-Class vehicles at its commercial assembly plant in Mishawaka, Indiana. Assembly began officially on Tuesday, August 11th.Mercedes-Benz US International (MBUSI) signed an agreement with AM General at the beginning of the year making it the first and ...
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FeatureDNB reports positive outlook for car carrier sector
Norwegian investment bank, DNB Markets, has reported a brighter outlook for the maritime car carrier sector as a result of slower fleet growth and rising demand, factors it said that have led to better vessel utilisation.In a report seen by analyst firm IHS Maritime, DNB stated that the market for ...
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FeatureHonda lands first HR-V volume from Mexico in the UK
Following the news that Honda had exported its first consignment of HR-V vehicles from Mexico destined for the UK market the carmaker confirmed this week that the vehicles have now landed in the UK through the port of Bristol.The vehicles were made at Honda’s Celaya plant in Mexico and exported ...
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FeatureKamarajar now leading automotive port on India's east coast
Competition to handle export vehicles from India's east coast is hotting up with the announcement that Kamarajar port (formerly Ennore port) has edged head of the port of Chennai to become the most important new vehicles handling facility. The news follows the announcement last month that L&T Ports, which operates ...
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FeatureGM invests in Flint plant upgrade with benefits for inbound
GM has announced plans to invest $877m at Flint, the OEM’s oldest assembly plant in North America in an major overhaul that promises to reduce handling and the time it takes to ship parts inbound.As part of the plans GM is building a new body shop for the assembly plant, ...
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FeatureTed Boudalis moves from Mercedes to WWL VSA
Ted Boudalis has taken up a new role as senior general manager of strategy and operations at WWL Vehicle Services America (WWL VSA), the US-based division of Norwegian provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics.Boudalis was, until the beginning of August, manager of strategic VPC operations at Mercedes-Benz USA, a role he had ...
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FeatureWWL ALS shifts heavy loads to South Africa from France and China
WWL’s Abnormal Loads Services division has recently made a couple of substantial construction equipment moves to South Africa from France and China.In the first move the division moved an 810-tonne mining excavator from Leibherr’s factory in Colmar to its destination in Durban for the mining company Kumba Iron Ore. The ...
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FeatureAuto supply chain dispute a factor in failure of TPP talks
Last week’s Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, which were held in Hawaii, failed to find resolution, partially because of a dispute over vehicle trade between North American and Japan related to NAFTA rules of origin.The TPP negotiations are an effort by 12 nations trading on the Pacific Rim to find ...