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News – Page 289
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FeatureNorth American vehicle ports - riding the waves
Import and export growth trends;North American ports survey;Mapping out old and new shipping routes;Growth in the south and Mexico;Infrastructure developments;Future risks and rewards. Significant growth for both vehicle imports and exports continues throughout North American ports. The numbers and trends are in this annual port survey of the regionThe ...
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FeatureWELCOME TO OUR NEW WEBSITE
It brings together in one place all the content from our print magazines, our worldwide conferences, our e-news service, our video interviews and webinars, and our directory of logistics providers. It displays our Twitter feed and provides connections to our Linked-in groups.Its overall objective is to provide you with intelligence, ...
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FeatureOn the logistics launch pad
While a lot is written about inbound and aftermarket logistics, relatively little attention is paid to the services provided for vehicle launches, which involve some of the most complex logistics solutions. These can aslo be very expensive, especially since it is common to fly prototypes around to different plants and ...
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FeatureCounting cost of 'MOL Comfort' disaster
Automotive OEMs and tier one suppliers are trying to assess what losses they may have made following the break up of the Mitsui OSK container vessel – MOL Comfort – off the coast of Yemen, which was carrying almost 4,400 containers.“We have been in contact with a number of ...
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FeatureMerc develops sales and dealer network in China
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz division has set up a sales management unit for China in Stuttgart, Germany and announced the expansion of its dealer network in China, as well as a new aftersales initiative. The company said that all sales functions will be coordinated by the Stuttgart-based unit, Sales Management ...
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FeatureRiggs honoured as entrepreneur
Mike Riggs, chairman of Jack Cooper Holdings, has been recognised for his entrepreneurship at the Central Midwest regional heat of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 Awards. The award, held annually by the global accountancy, recognises outstanding high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success ...
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FeatureGlobal round up: Bosporus Shuttle, VW opens PDC, CP cuts time cross country, Rolfo updates Ego, Dealer satisfaction survey
DB Schenker to launch ‘Bosporus Shuttle’ in SeptemberDB Schenker Rail will start a new service between Germany and Turkey in September this year that will eventually offer five pairs of trains per week to enhance its existing service between Western Europe and Turkey. The service supports both finished vehicle ...
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FeatureClear advantages for Russia localisation
Localisation of the automotive supply chain in Russia is critical to being a major player in the market according to speakers at this week’s Automotive Logistics Russia conference in Moscow. Speakers from General Motors and Russia’s Gaz Group said such localisation would be necessary not just because of the ...
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FeatureBrazil omits safeguards for ro-ro in ports bill
The Brazilian government has revised the law governing new terminal investment at the country’s ports this month following the announcement last December that it was introducing a $26m incentive programme to solve endemic problems of congestion. The previous law (8630/93) applying to terminal development stated that the port authority ...
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FeatureGM changes production disclosure
General Motors has said it will stop reporting its monthly production figures from its North American plants and provide only the number of wholesale deliveries it makes on a quarterly basis. A spokesman for the carmaker told Automotive Logistics News that it will continue to provide forecasts to the ...
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FeatureSpanish dealers raided in anti-trust action
The Spanish government’s anti-trust authority, the National Competition Commission (CNC), is investigating a number of automotive dealers and distributors across the country that are suspected of being involved in the price fixing of vehicles and services, as well as the exchange of commercially sensitive information. The organisation, which carried ...
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FeatureDHL reveals vehicle launch service
DHL has introduced a three-stage modular process for new vehicle launches that it says covers the entire product launch cycle from prototype to marketing and can reduce to a minimum the supply chain incidents that occur along the way. At a special DHL Automotive meeting held in Paris, France ...
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FeatureGlobal round up: Vehnet RFID, Russia road tolls, Kerry in China, Neovia buys MIQ, Stuttgart logistics park for Mercedes
Vehnet teams up with RF Code to supply improved RFID toolYard management specialist Vehnet is entering a strategic partnership with RF Code, a provider of RFID locating technology, to improve the tracking of reusable containers. The companies said their combined technology will deliver the most advanced Active RFID solution ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move: Gerrit Hes,Brian Taylor,Jesper Hansen,Erik Jonnaert,
Gerrit Hes has left his position as managing director at Koopman Logistics Group, a role he has been in for the last five years. According to a letter sent out by Siebe Koopman, director of parent company Koopman Holding, Hes decided to stand down from his position on June ...
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FeatureMexico is mission critical
Either you are in Mexico today or you will be tomorrow. It is a location that is mission critical to the business of carmakers and logistics providers alike but at the moment it is a puzzle with many different pieces, each with its own challenge for the automotive industry. ...
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FeatureDHL revamps the aftermarket
DHL announced this week that it was overhauling its service for automotive spare parts delivery by adopting just-in-time delivery methods more usually associated with an inbound assembly service. At a meeting convened at the Renault ZE electric vehicle facility in Paris, France on Tuesday, the logistics provider ...
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FeatureAn automotive gateway in London?
DP World’s London Gateway, a new container port east of London due to start operations in the fourth quarter of this year, could become a node for containerised parts and finished vehicles in and out out of the UK. Speaking during an Automotive Logistics Webinar, Peter Ward, ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move: Michael Kluger, Mark Ellis, Herbert de Saint Simon, Michael Hawes
Michael Kluger has taken up a new role as vice president of the Commercial Division at Neovia Logistics. Kluger has been working as a visiting lecturer at the Baden-Würtemberg Cooperative State University since October 2012, a position he took up when he left DB Schenker Deutschland where ...
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FeatureGlobal round up: Porsche supplier problems; Ford increases output; WWL carrier awards; Benchmarking from ICL
Supply concerns persist at PorscheLuxury carmaker Porsche has resumed production at its Leipzig plant in Germany following an assembly shutdown on the Cayenne SUV line there last Thursday because of supply problems caused by the severe flooding in Europe. Parts being brought by rail from Slovakia via the Czech ...
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FeatureA brighter day for LSPs
Thomas Cullen says automotive is once again a logistics growth driver...for now.The automotive sector has always been big for logistics providers – big and tough. Car assembly pioneered the outsourcing of transport, warehousing and line feeding, and served as a model for other sectors. Yet from the 1990s, profits fell ...