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FeatureBoth sections of stricken Mitsui vessel now sunk
Both halves of Mitsui OSK Line’s stricken container vessel MOL Comfort have now sunk in the Indian Ocean with a loss of more than 4,000 TEUs. The vessel, which broke in half in heavy seas after sustaining damage on June 17th, was en route to Saudi Arabia from Singapore, having ...
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FeatureJCB to open hub for inbound parts supply
Construction equipment maker JCB is opening a hub in North Staffordshire in the UK to receive inbound components for shipment its manufacturing plants around the world.When fully operational the facility will have throughput in the region of 40m parts per annum or around 500,000 pallets according to JCB's Joannes Van ...
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FeatureGM will make Mokka in Spain in 2014
GM’s Opel/Vauxhall division will start assembling the Mokka at its plant in Zaragoza, Spain in the second half of next year. The company said it was in response to high demand for the small SUV in Europe and will help secure 5,800 jobs at the Spanish plant, which currently makes ...
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Russian regulations risk delivery days and production
Over the last three months, from the beginning of April to the end of June, Russia’s Ministry of Transport has had in force regulations on truck axle weights that have restricted the normal operating limits of ten tonnes and reduced them to between three and four tonnes.According to the Ministry, ...
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FeatureUkraine could suspend special import duties on cars
The Ukrainian government may scrap the excessive duties on imported cars that it has levied since April this year within the next couple of months, according to the press service of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The duty has been opposed by a number of countries, including Japan, as ...
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FeatureHasenfuss heads procurement at VW Commercial Vehicles
Jörn Hasenfuss is the new head of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ Procurement division, replacing Rüdiger Koch who is taking up a new role within the VW Group.Hasenfuss, who is now member of the Management Board for the division, moves over from his role as first vice-president and commercial executive vice president ...
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FeatureRZD Logistics re elects Baskakov as chairman
Russian Railways Logistics has appointed Petr Baskakov as its chairman for a second year. Baskakov is CEO of TransContainer.Since 2003, Baskakov has been the head of TransContainer branch of OJSC Russian Railways and later OJSC TransContainer when it was formed as a joint stock company in 2006. He has more ...
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FeatureBVL appoints Sabine Hucke as MD
Sabine Hucke has been appointed managing director of Germany’s logistics interest group BVL (Bundesvereiningung Logistik). She takes over from Jörn Fontius who is leaving the BVL after eight years to pursue other career opportunities.Hucke was previously head of Central Logistics at car interiors supplier F.S. Fehrer Automotive and brings wide-ranging ...
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FeatureYusen’s Veitch wins warehousing award
Ian Veitch, managing director of Yusen Logistics (UK), has won the chairman’s award at the UK Warehousing Association’s annual awards.The award is presented to an individual or company who has made “a real and lasting contribution to the logistics industry”."I am absoutely delighted to receive this award," said Veitch. "It ...
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FeatureDHL strike could hit Jaguar Land Rover plants
Logistics workers from the Unite union have voted in favour of strikes over a pay dispute with DHL Supply Chain across all of Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) manufacturing plants in the UK, a move that could severely disrupt production. DHL and JLR have said that contingency plans are currently in ...
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FeatureLondon Gateway could boost flows of components by rail
Rail services for automotive parts in the UK could grow with the launch of services this year by DB Schenker at DP World London Gateway, a new port outside London that starts operations in the fourth quarter of this year.According to Adrian Fleming, head of sales and marketing at DB ...
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FeatureHigher parts exports could change JLR’s logistics network
Jaguar Land Rover could see changes to its parts export and import flows into and out of the UK and Europe in the coming years as it expands production in overseas locations, notably China. Growing exports of components could mean more balanced material flows in and out of the UK, ...
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FeatureUnifreight opens vehicle compound in Kenya
Car importers in Uganda now have their own car depot in Mombasa, in neighbouring Kenya. A 21,000 square metre site belonging to Uganda Property Holdings at Changamwe has been made available to Unifreight Cargo Handlers (UCH).The new facility can accommodate 3,500 vehicles, which are brought into Africa via the port ...
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FeatureEU files complaint against Russia’s recycling tax
The European Union (EU) has filed a protest with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over Russia’s vehicle recycling fees stating that they discriminate against imports. It is the first case the EU has filed against Russia at the WTO.The tax, or ‘Utilisation Fee’, has drawn complaints from trade representatives from ...
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FeatureJAC closes on 60k exports to Brazil
China Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC) has reported exports of 57,000 vehicles to Brazil since it started moving units there two years ago, making it the number one Chinese brand in the country.The company began exports in March 2011 with the J3 and J3 Turin models and hit 37,800 models by ...
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FeatureKia to open logistics centre in Sri Lanka
Kia Motors is to invest $4.58m in the development of a 14,000-square-metre site at Malabe in Sri Lanka, which will become a fully-fledged logistics centre. It will incorporate a showroom, a fully equipped vehicle care centre and centralised stores, and will accommodate vehicles brought into Sri Lanka from the port ...
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FeaturePrologis study reveals most desirable logistics locations
Real estate developer Prologis has revealed the results of a recent survey into logistics locations that ranks the top ten most desirable in Europe, with Venlo in the Netherlands topping the list followed by Antwerp/Brussels and Rotterdam.The research was carried out in partnership with business intelligence provider Eyefortransport and surveyed ...
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FeatureSimplytrak launches online freight exchange
Global vehicle tracking provider Simplytrak has launched a free online freight exchange called 'shipntrak' that it said enables shippers and hauliers to match cargo with available space.The company said the auction-style platform will help reduce costs and promote competition amongst hauliers. At the same time it will provide hauliers with ...
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FeatureThe Resilience Imperative
In 2011 the Fukushima tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown in the region’s manufacturing hub shook international supply chain networks to the core. With the global automotive industry already reeling from the US financial crisis, dealing with a European market hobbled by the Eurozone debt crisis and scrambling to meet demand ...
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FeatureBlack Sea ports back in focus
Carmakers and logistics providers operating in Russia are looking at the development of ports in the south of the country around the Black Sea, with small ro-ro facilities and shipping services beginning at the port of Novorossiysk.For several years manufactures have used Ukrainian ports, including Illychevsk and Sevastapol, with capacity ...