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FeatureGefco integrates South America service for PSA
Following the announcement that Gefco Brazil is opening a new 6,200m2 logistics hub in Guarulhos, northeast São Paulo to consolidate multi-modal services for PSA Peugeot Citroën, the company’s Director of Transport Logistic Automotive, André Bortolotto (pictured), has told Automotive Logistics this week how the facility will provide a more rapid ...
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FeatureLet the train take the strain
The last shipment of Hitachi high-speed passenger trains reached the Port of Southampton in the UK this week, bringing to a close a four-year project which saw 29 full trains imported from Hitachi’s plant in Kasado, Japan, for use by UK rail company Southeastern. Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), acting as ...
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FeatureScrappage effect means no summer holiday for Hyundai
The UK’s scrappage scheme has led to the first rise in new car sales in country for 15 months, with more than one in five of the cars registered in July bought under the incentive. New car sales rose 2.4% in July and the rush for new registration models in ...
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FeatureGM hits new markets with Chinese-made minivans
Under a new agreement with its Chinese partner, Liuzhou Wuling Automotive, GM has begun exports of minivans from the country to markets in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The first shipment of 150 vehicles left Guangzhou for Egypt last Thursday aboard NYK’s Zeus Leader and are due to ...
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FeatureMenlo to handle US Midwest export centre for Caterpillar
Menlo Worldwide Logistics, the global logistics subsidiary of Con-way, has opened a dedicated Midwest-area export logistics centre in Joliet, Illinois, which is supporting export activity for commercial vehicle and engine maker Caterpillar. Menlo will provide export consolidation services including receiving, export packaging and loading/shipping over 18,500m2 of the 32,500m2 building, ...
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FeatureLogwin strengthens logistics support for BMW
Logwin has increased its support for BMW in Germany with the deployment of its Parts Direct aftermarket service in Berlin and the surrounding area for the same-day delivery of parts to dealers. It has also enhanced its provision of warehouse and transhipment services in Hamburg and Cologne for the storage ...
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FeatureSyncron provides best laid plans for ELIT in Europe
Czech automotive parts distributor ELIT has selected Syncron’s Supply Chain Planner solution to improve its inventory management capabilities for Central and Eastern European markets. Syncron is a global supply chain software provider with customers in the automotive and commercial vehicles sectors including Volvo, JCB, Mazda, Alfa Laval, Scania, Renault and ...
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FeatureWhen will logistics start tweeting?
If logistics, as the adage goes, is more about the flow of information than the flow of materials, then the ever-more popular spread of social media tools could be just the right equipment for 21st century supply chain management. Twitter, with its up-to-the-next second updates and its ability to build ...
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FeatureHonda UK to export hot hatchback
Honda will export the Civic Type R from its Swindon plant in the UK for sale in Japan next year; it’s the third country to take the UK Type R after Australia and South Africa. The three-door 'hot hatchback' will be called the Type R Euro in Japan to distinguish ...
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FeatureCon-way gives more for less with Global LTL
Con-way Freight has launched a global less-than-truckload (LTL) service in collaboration with other providers, including APL Logistics and TNT, in the form of an online portfolio of the company’s LTL services. For an automotive industry still faced with overcapacity and looking for greater efficiency it means “state-of-the-art online tools and ...
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FeatureA classic move for Mazda
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has delivered a shipment of Mazda vehicles to the European Port of Antwerp, including 14 models of the classic Cosmo 110 Sport. The Cosmos, which were added to 4,500 vehicles delivered to the port aboard the ro-ro vessel MV Torrens, are featuring in this week’s international Cosmo ...
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FeatureNow you can bid for a GM bargain on eBay
GM’s decision to sell new vehicles in the US via the internet auction site eBay will not affect logistics and distribution activity according to the company. “It only affects the front-end transaction and marketing,” spokesman Dan Flores told Automotive Logistic, “customers will still take delivery of the vehicles through a ...
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FeatureUS 3PLs could see light in 2010
While 2009 will be the first year since at least 1996 that the US third-party logistics (3PL) market will contract, 2010 could signal a fairly strong return to growth, according to a report, “Who’s Who in Logistics and Supply Chain Management”, by Armstrong & Associates, a US-based consultancy. In ...
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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 ...