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    Melanie Moore takes up lead sustainability role at Wilhelmsen

    2018-01-12T17:21:07Z

    Melanie Moore (pictured) has taken up a newly created role as head of sustainability at Wilh. Wilhelmsen, the global ro-ro shipping line and maritime services provider based in Norway. Moore moves from her role as director of health, safety and security at the company.Moore said the role reflected the group’s ...

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    Accelerated Services buys out Continental Transport in the US

    2018-01-12T16:56:32Z

    US-based finished vehicle transport provider Accelerated Services has taken over Continental Transport for an undisclosed sum.The combined entity has a fleet of approximately 216 trucks, but Accelerated Services said that number was set to grow and it intended to have 250 trucks by the end of the second quarter of ...

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    Gefco buys GLT to strengthen service between Morocco and Europe

    2018-01-11T17:32:51Z

    Gefco has bought Moroccan road haulage company GLT for an undisclosed sum in a move designed to strengthen its service between Europe and Morocco, including for the automotive industry. Gefco’s division in Spain will own and manage GLT.GLT has been operating as a specialist in logistics flows through the strait ...

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    Toyota and Mazda choose Alabama for US joint venture plant

    2018-01-10T14:54:33Z

    [UPDATE] Toyota and Mazda have chosen Alabama for a new $1.6 billion plant they will run together, which will make 300,000 vehicles a year. The investment will be split evenly between the two Japanese carmakers.The plant in Huntsville, where Toyota already has a large engine plant, will benefit from an ...

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    WWL links Spain’s port of Vigo to South America

    2018-01-10T14:33:02Z

    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has added the Spanish port of Vigo to its Atlantic Ocean service, which supports the movement of finished vehicles, breakbulk and rolling stock between Europe and South America via the US and Mexico.The Norwegian-based global ocean services provider will call at Vigo on a monthly basis, ...

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    Frenk Snoek moves to Broekman Project Services at Rotterdam

    2018-01-10T11:15:38Z

    Broekman Logistics has appointed Frenk Snoek (pictured) as general manager of Broekman Project Services, one of the terminal operations it runs at the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.Broekman Project Services focuses on heavy lift operations and the handling and storage of complex and overweight cargo.Snoek, who started in the ...

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    CBI Manufacturing makes first convertible trailer under contract with CTM

    2018-01-10T10:47:55Z

    Canadian commercial and agricultural equipment maker, CBI Manufacturing, has produced its first convertible finished vehicle trailer, following an agreement signed in May last year with Convertible Trailer Manufacturing Worldwide (CTM).Following several months of development, the companies began trials in November of the prototype 53-foot NA Hi-Mount Convertible Trailer, which is ...

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    Indian car carriers caught in the middle of GST accounting ‘nightmare’

    2018-01-10T09:36:35Z

    Following the rollout of the long-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) six months ago, automotive carriers in India are struggling to resolve different customer requirements about how the tax is actually applied to their services.Under the GST, car hauliers can use either a Forward Credit Mechanism (FCM) or a Reverse ...

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    Frank McGuigan moves to CEO role at Transplace

    2018-01-09T15:56:13Z

    North American transport management and logistics technology provider, Transplace, has appointed Frank McGuigan (pictured) as its new CEO, replacing Tom Sanderson, who moves to the role of executive chairman and will serve on the company’s board of directors.McGuigan has been with Transplace since 2011 and most recently served as the ...

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    Vauxhall to cut a further 250 jobs as it moves to a single shift at Ellesmere Port

    2018-01-09T10:24:48Z

    Vauxhall Motors has announced it is making a further 250 redundancies at its Ellesmere Port plant in the UK, following a meeting it held on January 4th with union Unite.The latest announcement comes on top of the 400 redundancies announced in October last year, at which point the carmaker also ...

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    GM ceases assembly in Belarus in favour of exports to Russia from US

    2018-01-08T16:44:47Z

    GM has ceased assembly of Chevrolet and Cadillac cars in Belarus for the local market and for Russia, following its exit from production in Russia in 2015.The vehicles, starting with the Opel Mokka and Chevrolet Tracker (elsewhere renamed the Trax) and later the Chevrolet Tahoe and Cadillac Escalade, were assembled ...

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    Drone technology: Getting ready to take off?

    2018-01-08T14:57:26Z

    As global giants like Amazon continue to assess the viability of using unmanned aerial vehicles for deliveries, companies around the world are becoming ever more interested in the potential of drones. Aside from making consumer deliveries, drone technology has already emerged as an active area of research and development in ...

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    India’s CCA goes to high court over enforcement of new truck regulations

    2018-01-08T11:48:45Z

    India’s Car Carrier Association has lodged a petition of complaint with the high court in Jaipur over the way new truck regulations are being enforced in Rajasthan.The problems relate to the enforcement of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules (CMVR) regulation that was introduced in October 2016 with the support of ...

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    Dr Jeffrey Richards moves to logistics and supply chain role at Aptiv

    2018-01-05T16:47:00Z

    Following the division of tier one automotive parts and systems technology provider Delphi Automotive into two separate companies – Aptiv and Delphi Technologies – Dr Jeffrey Richards (pictured) has become global director of logistics and supply chain operations at Aptiv. Richards has been with Delphi for 27 years and in ...

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    Nissan appoints Sakamoto and Le Vot to strengthen management team

    2018-01-03T16:19:32Z

    Nissan Motor is kicking off the new year with couple of top executive changes in Japan and North America to strengthen its management structure.Hideyuki Sakamoto (pictured, left), who was executive vice-president of product engineering, has been appointed executive vice-president of manufacturing and supply chain management, effective from January 1st this ...

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    Spanish road hauliers start new year with protest over tolls in Basque region

    2018-01-03T15:15:34Z

    Spanish road hauliers are carrying out protests this week at new road tolls being brought in by the provincial government on the N1 and AP-15 motorways through the northern region of Gipúzkoa in the Basque country.However, there has been no announcement so far of when the toll charges, which are ...

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    Pasaia extends vehicle terminal concession to UECC and Noatum

    2018-01-03T14:53:16Z

    The port authority controlling the Spanish port of Pasaia (Pasajes) in the northern Basque region has agreed to extend the concession held there by short sea services provider UECC and Spanish maritime, logistics and port services provider Noatum Maritime.According to the latest agreement, UECC and Noatum will continue to operate ...

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    Schröter takes over from Lohmann on Rhenus supervisory board

    2018-01-03T14:26:27Z

    Dr Marco Schröter has taken over as chairman of the supervisory board at German logistics provider Rhenus Group, replacing Reinhard Lohmann, who has stepped down from the board after reaching the age limit for board membership.Schröter has been a member of the board since the beginning of 2017 and was ...

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    First volumes of Mitsubishi Eclipse land in the UK

    2018-01-03T12:34:43Z

    The first shipment of Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross SUVs has been delivered to the UK via Portbury Docks in Bristol, ahead of the model’s launch in the country later this month. Further shipments are planned in coming weeks, according to the carmaker.The vehicle is being made at Mitsubishi’s plant in Okazaki, ...

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    Grimaldi buys out Marittima and takes direct control of Savona terminal

    2018-01-03T11:21:35Z

    Italian shipping line Grimaldi has bought out its agent at the port of Savona in Italy, Marittima Spedizioni, for an undisclosed sum. The move puts Grimaldi in direct control of Savona Auto Terminal at the port.A spokesperson for Grimaldi confirmed that the terminal had an area of 120,000 sq.m for ...