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FeatureRMI sign partnership for multi-modal service with ProAct
US rail software provider RMI has signed a strategic partnership with supply chain software provider ProAct International for a new online management service that will benefit automotive companies operating in the US, Canada and Latin America. The deal is estimated to be worth in excess of $500,000 over time. RMI ...
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FeaturePan-European inbound for JLR
As Tata pulls out the stops to find new efficiencies for the future of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), DHL Supply Chain, the carmaker’s lead logistics provider, has been doing its bit with the provision of a new pan-European, inbound collection strategy. Using its freight control tower in Veghel, Holland, the ...
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FeatureMOL and Sical support Nissan Indian exports
Following Nissan’s decision to use MOL Auto Logistics (India) for inland export activity from its new plant near Chennai, in India, the Mitsui OSK subsidiary has announced plans this week to enter a joint venture with Chennai-based Sical Logistics to operate a vehicle management facility at the Port of Ennore. ...
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FeatureSupply contracts signed at FAW-VW park launch
FAW-Volkswagen, the joint venture between the German company and China's second largest carmaker China First Automobile Works (FAW), has signed contracts worth a total of RMB 3.9 billion ($571m) with 22 automotive parts manufacturers to supply parts for its new plant in Chengdu, China. The total includes $120m in foreign ...
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FeatureCollapse means growth for packaging supplier
Netherlands-headquartered packing provider VMT Ecopack has won Frost and Sullivan’s 2009 European Automotive Packaging Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year Award in recognition of its demonstration of “an exceptional growth strategy” within the automotive industry. “The commitment to reduce the logistics costs of its customers through innovative packaging solutions is ...
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FeaturePowerID helps CHEP with RFID in South Africa
Pallet and container pooling provider CHEP is currently rolling out the use of a battery-assisted, passive (BAP) RFID tags provided by PowerID to track pallets and FLC containers for its automotive and retail customers in South Africa. CHEP, which has been working with PowerID since early 2008, opted for the ...
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FeatureNano is moving by rail
Indian carmaker Tata, which handed over the keys to its first Nano customer earlier this month, has begun deliveries in earnest of the world’s cheapest new car, and has also begun moving the car by rail, according Prem K Verma, the CEO of Tata Motors Limited Distribution Company (TMLD), the ...
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FeatureVW to cut logistics cost at Kaluga
Hoping to attract international suppliers to its operation in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen Group Rus is taking a leading role in the development of a new industrial complex in the Grabtsevo industrial zone. The carmaker has been allocated 800 hectares in the new ‘A-Park project’. Half of that space will be ...
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FeatureCNH fights downturn with global contracts
Case New Holland, a subsidiary of Fiat, has signed three global logistics contracts while undergoing reorganisation in the face of a dramatic drop in the demand for agricultural and construction equipment worldwide. CNH Global’s sales for the second quarter dropped 33% to $3.6 billion, compared with $5.3 billion for the ...
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FeatureUS carriers find a new way to fill empty miles
As logistics providers struggle to fill empty miles and improve efficiency, Hybrid Intermodal Transportation (HIT) has completed final equipment tests for its new Road Pod container solution with Allied Automotive Group and CSX Corporation in the US. Allied Automotive Group is the largest car and light truck carrier in North ...
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FeatureFrost & Sullivan award superior performers
DB Schenker and NYK Logistics reaped rewards at Frost & Sullivan’s 2009 Asia Pacific Transportation & Logistics Awards held last Thursday at the Intercontinental Singapore. A total of 37 awards were given to companies in recognition of their outstanding achievement and superior performance in the region across a range of ...
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FeatureFull ESteam ahead for Opel inbound
Opel has a new logistics service provider for all inbound deliveries to its German plants and regional distribution centres in the Rhein-Ruhr/Mannheim and Saarland region. The new contract, which starts at the beginning of August, follows the insolvency of Opel’s previous provider Lueg. The new company, a 50:50 joint venture ...
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FeatureAn investment partner for Partner Shipping
Partner Shipping, which entered the car carrier and ro-ro market last year, has found an investor to capitalise the company as it seeks to expand its ocean services. Siem Industries, an industrial group with activity in oil, gas and shipping, has invested in 50% of the company, with the other ...
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FeatureThe small are surviving in finished vehicles at UPS
UPS Automotive Industry Solutions, the finished vehicle arm of the American logistics giant, is defying the downward trends in the automotive industry and has maintained growth in its revenue above 2008 levels so far this year, according to Paul Hargadon, General Manager for the division. Hargadon declined to give ...
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FeatureA different face for premium freight
Several asset-light premium freight third party logistics providers to the automotive industry in Europe have told Automotive Logistics that, following several months when business nearly disappeared, their revenue and performance is now beginning to match or outpace that of 2008, although the processes around such freight appear to be gaining ...
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FeatureFord's Frederiek Toney to lead Customer Service division
Frederiek Toney (pictured) will become Vice President, Ford Customer Service Division and a corporate officer of Ford from September 1st this year. Currently the Executive Director, Global Material Planning and Logistics (MP&L), Toney has been among the key figures in driving change and collaboration in Ford’s North American and global ...
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FeatureToyota and Nissan localise electric cars in Europe
Pictured, left to right: Katsunore Kojima, MD Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK, Tadashi Arashima, President Toyota Motor Europe, Lord Peter Mandelson, UK Business Secretary Announcements last week that Toyota will begin its first hybrid production in Europe at its Burnaston factory in the UK, along with Nissan’s revelation that it ...
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FeatureAfter a decade, WWL looks even more to logistics
Car carrier and finished vehicle logistics provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), while its shipping revenue and profits have reeled from the drop in car sales and overcapacity of ro-ro tonnage, has achieved more stability and new business for its logistics and land operations, according to CEO Arild Iversen (pictured). To ...
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FeatureVW opens first logistics service facility in India
Volkswagen has completed work on a Logistics Service Facility at its Aurangabad plant in India for the supply of spare parts to Audi, Skoda and VW brand vehicles. It is the first such facility the German carmaker has established in the country and has been set up as part of ...
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FeatureNissan will export Micra from India
Nissan will begin exporting the next Micra from its new factory in Oragadam near Chennai, India once production begins there in the middle of next year. Exports could account for 60-70% of production. The factory, which will have an annual capacity of 200,000, is slated to begin production by May ...