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FeatureJCB to supply backhoes in Brazil
JCB has secured a second order worth more than £40m ($68m) with the Brazilian government for the supply of 1,000 backhoe loaders through 2013. The machines will be manufactured at JCB’s $100m factory in Brazil, which was opened last September in Sao Paulo, and supplied to Brazil’s Ministry ...
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FeatureGlobal round up: Civics export to Australia; Hail damage in Mississippi; JLR opens in Singapore; Bosch expands service parts in China; Ceva starts Euro-China rail link
Honda starts Civic exports to AustraliaHonda has started shipments of the Civic diesel to Australia from its UK plant in Swindon, part of a wider Civic export programme to the country from the plant. The diesel version will go on sale in the country in April. The company is ...
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FeatureAteco targets China imports to Australia
The Ateco Group, Australia and New Zealand's largest locally based independent car importer, has said it plans to build a new core business around Chinese imports as well as beginning business with North American brands for the first time. The company is also intending to develop existing links ...
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FeatureACEA calls for parity in trade talks
As the European Union and Japan begin negotiations on a free trade agreement this week, the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) has reiterated its calls for Japan to remove non-tariff barriers so that European brands are able to compete on an equal footing. "We are strongly in favour ...
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FeatureBrazil concerned over parts trade
The Brazilian automotive parts industry is worried by two recent developments affecting trade with its neighbours Argentina and Mexico. In the first, the government of Argentina is to revise the automotive agreement it has with Brazil to favour the local production of components. Secondly, imported parts from Mexico are ...
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FeatureLegislation could benefit modal shift in Europe
Carmakers and logistics providers are doing their best to cope with the sixth straight year of decline in European sales by adjusting transport networks to find efficiency savings and to better serve growing markets abroad. However, their efforts in finding more efficient multimodal solutions could be better supported by ...
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FeatureCarmakers look at supply chain barriers
Reducing barriers in the supply chain could provide gains of between 5-6% greater than those gained by removing tariffs, equal to a GDP boost of $2 trillion, with direct benefits for the automotive industry. Speaking at last week’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference in Germany, Sean Doherty, director of ...
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FeatureGlobal round up: JAC to boost exports; Supply chain mapping tool; Renault renews with TNT; GM Supplier Awards
JAC plans to boost global exportsChinese carmaker Jianghuai Automobile (JAC) said it intends to sell more than 1.6m cars by the end of the 2015 with exports accounting for 25% of the volume. The company’s largest market share is in South America and last year it reported exports there ...
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FeatureIndian Railways seeks investment for autos
State-owned Indian Railways is developing a new automobile freight train operator (AFTO) policy, which it hopes will prompt investment from Maruti Suzuki and APL Vascor, the logistics subsidiary of APL. Both companies have already discussed increasing their investment in this sector. At present, just 5% of total automotive movement ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move: Conway Jeffress, Greg Henninger, Hiroto Saikawa, Anthony Laydon, Anthony Laydon, Connie Tang,
Conway Jeffress has settled into his new role as global director of automotive at freight forwarding and logistics provider, Jas Forwarding Worldwide. Jeffress was previously vice-president of automotive at Panalpina but said that because of its restructuring of industry verticals and executive responsibilities, the time was right to make ...
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FeatureBo Andersson on being a leader
He describes on video the challenges of turning round GAZ and the approach he took
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FeatureAgromash to make and move Peugeots
PSA Peugeot-Citroën has signed an agreement with Agromash Holding for the assembly and distribution of the passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Kazakhstan. Agromash Holding is one of Kazakhstan’s largest producers of vehicles and agricultural equipment. According to the agreement, Agromash will start building the vehicles this coming ...
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FeatureAgromash to make and move Peugeots
PSA Peugeot-Citroën has signed an agreement with Agromash Holding for the assembly and distribution of the passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Kazakhstan. Agromash Holding is one of Kazakhstan’s largest producers of vehicles and agricultural equipment. According to the agreement, Agromash will start building the vehicles this coming ...
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FeatureAgromash to make and move Peugeots
PSA Peugeot-Citroën has signed an agreement with Agromash Holding for the assembly and distribution of the passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Kazakhstan. Agromash Holding is one of Kazakhstan’s largest producers of vehicles and agricultural equipment. According to the agreement, Agromash will start building the vehicles this coming ...
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FeatureEcoSport could be shipped to Europe from India
Unconfirmed reports coming out of the Geneva Motor show this week suggest that Ford is planning to export its EcoSport SUV from India to supply the European and UK markets later this year. The vehicle went into production at Ford India’s Maraimalai Nagar plant near Chennai for the local ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move: Karl May, Roland Gentsch, Craig Jasienski, Glenn Edvardsen, Reinhard Lange,
As part of wider organisational changes at BMW, it has been confirmed that Dr Karl May, formerly head of logistics, design and supply networks, has taken up a new position in outbound logistics at the carmaker as head of Vehicle Distribution and VDCs (vehicle distribution centres). In his previous ...
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FeatureInfrastructure fund could benefit ports
Following President Obama’s State of the Union address delivered in February, ports in the US stand to benefit from a new funding proposal within the Department of Transport for $5 billion directed at infrastructure across the region. The American Infrastructure Investment Fund is designed to provide an incentive ...
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FeatureAuto haulers tackle risk and liability
Brokerage risk, the Affordable Care Act and the question of safety and insurance – these are three major issues affecting the vehicle haulage business in North America and all three were under discussion at the first meeting of the Auto Haulers Association of America, recently held in Atlanta. ...
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FeatureIn conversation with... Scott Sharland, AIAG
It is hard to find any positive aspects to a recession but if it could do any good it has made stakeholders in the automotive industry aware of how interdependent they are; fertile ground for collaboration according to Scot Sharland, executive director of the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG). ...
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FeatureGlobal round up: New Flyer buys Orion; MacGregor for Grimaldi; SmartAuction adds ShipCarsNow; DS Smith wins awards;
New Flyer buys Orion aftermarket businessNew Flyer Industries, which makes heavy-duty transit buses in the US and Canada, has bought the Orion aftermarket parts business from Daimler Buses North America (DBNA) for $29m. The move follows an investment of C$517m ($501m) in New Flyer by bus maker Marcopolo. ...