All North America articles – Page 102
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FeatureArvinMeritor expands distribution centre in Mexico
Commercial vehicle parts provider ArvinMeritor has opened a new aftermarket parts distribution centre at its axle manufacturing plant near Monterrey in Mexico. The warehouse, which is 20% bigger than the company’s previous facility at 3,270m2, will now serve more than 300 dealer and parts distributors in Latin America and Mexico ...
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FeatureGlovis order extends service for Hyundai-Kia
Hyundai-owned car carrier Glovis has announced it will spend $191.5m on orders for three new pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) to meet demand from Hyundai and its affiliate Kia Motors. Glovis has said it plans to ship around 440,000 vehicles made by Hyundai and Kia this year. Each of ...
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FeatureCN plans compound to Calgary Logistics Park
Following the opening of its new C$14m ($13.4m) automotive compound in Toronto last September, Canada National Railway (CN) has announced plans to build a C$100m logistics park near Calgary, in Alberta province, that will include an automotive compound. The company expects to open the facility – CN Calgary Logistics Park ...
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FeatureToyota recall reveals need for visibility
Toyota’s recall of millions of vehicles in North America, Europe and China because of accelerator pedals that may stick is a complex and expensive logistics operation, with expedited replacements and repair parts shipped to factories and dealers. But logistics might be the least of Toyota’s supply chain management problems, as ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Panalpina’s former vice president of key account management, Alan Votaw, has taken up a new position at the head of the company’s automotive division – Panalpina IV Automotive. Votaw, who has been with Panalpina since January 2002, took up his new role as senior vice president, global head of industry ...
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FeatureJLR renews UK export contract with WWL
Jaguar Land Rover has renewed its contract with Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics for the export of vehicles from the UK to North America, Australia and New Zealand. The new contract, which is already underway, will see the shipment of around 45,000 Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) vehicles in 2010 from the ...
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FeatureGM shifts electric motors inhouse
GM is bringing the design and manufacture of its electric motors for hybrid and electric vehicles inhouse with an investment of $246m in manufacturing facilities, part of a wider $700m the company is putting into eight Michigan facilities for production of the Volt. The move could have positive implications for ...
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FeatureSupply chain partnership gets underway
Supply chain software provider ProAct International is now working with rail information management specialist RMI to provide enhanced supply chain management services for the automotive sector in the US, Canada and Latin America. The agreement, which was first announced last August, brings together ProAct’s multi-modal supply chain technology and RMI’s ...
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FeatureRisk report warns of underinvestment
The risk of another collapse in asset prices, mounting government debt, the spread of chronic diseases – these were some of the gruesome highlights out of the “Global Risks 2010” report published last week by the World Economic Forum. While the report’s authors stressed the “interconnectedness” of each risk to ...
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FeatureLSPs miss out on Chrysler pay plan
Chrysler’s plan to speed up payment for some of its suppliers by the end of January does not extend to logistics suppliers, according to the company. Chrysler told Automotive Logistics News that the payments are specifically directed at engineering, design and development of vehicle components and that it is not ...
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FeatureGermany ranks no.1 for logistics
Germany topped the rankings of 155 countries rated in the World Bank’s ‘Logistics Performance Index’ (LPI), a report published this week based on more than 5,000 individual country assessments made by around 1,000 international freight forwarders. (Read the full report here info.worldbank.org/etools/tradesurvey/Mode1a.asp) The report highlights a range of categories of ...
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FeatureUK weather puts logistics on ice
As Antarctic temperatures hit the UK last week, with snow and ice bringing many parts of the country to a standstill, automotive logistics companies have been forced to implement a number of measures to protect vehicles, find alternative routes and ensure the safety of drivers and staff. It is the ...
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FeatureGM signs specialised and inbound contracts
General Motors has signed two new contracts with logistics service providers in North America for finished vehicle and inbound parts movements. The first, with specialist vehicle carrier Select 1 Transport, will see the LSP handle all specialised movements throughout GM’s North American testing facilities in Michigan, Arizona, and Colorado. The ...
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FeatureMercedes opens Brunswick VPC
Monday saw the arrival of 16,000 Mercedes-Benz vehicles at the US Port of Brunswick, marking the first delivery to the carmaker’s new $17.5m vehicle processing centre (VPC) at the Colonel’s Island terminal. The 6,500m2 facility is the second VPC to be established on the south side of terminal, the other ...
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FeatureEukor and Hoegh announce additional services
The new year has begun with new service announcements from two of the world’s leading finished vehicle forwarders. Eukor Car Carriers has launched a new fixed weekly service from Europe to China, loading from ports at Wallhamn (Sweden), Bremerhaven (Germany), Antwerp (Belgium) and Southampton (UK), to Shanghai, Xingang and Huangpu ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
The Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG) is looking for a new executive director with the announcement this week that Mark Morgan (pictured) will be leaving the association at the end of March. Morgan, who has been in the position since August 2006, is returning to the UK for family ...
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FeatureChrysler signs contracts with NAPA and WWL
US carmaker Chrysler is boosting export activity from North America with two new shipping contracts serving Europe, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Rim. The company has signed a contract with the North America Pacific Asia (NAPA) service jointly operated by Norway’s Partner Shipping and Australia’s Praxis Logistics. This month it ...
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Make way for the little guys
Good time for a Plan CA market splintering rather than consolidatingThe US car carrier sector is in transition, and while many companies are disappearing, carmakers and 3PLs are giving more business to smaller, niche players for certain routes, reports Barry CrossThe US automotive outbound sector has seen chronic failures among ...
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FeatureGrooming the yard
Specialised software on the riseTagging to trackIncreasing productivityThe road aheadIT systems, whether hardware or software, are beginning to be more sophisticated for managing flows in and out of vehicle yards. Jim Romeo reportsWhile the automotive inbound and outbound supply chain has become more complex, the IT systems used to track ...
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FeatureEuropean car ports are waiting on an Asian dream
China’s big paper plansAssessing the European landing pointKia went to a smaller port, and so could othersChina and India have raced ahead in domestic car sales, but logistics providers and port operators in Europe are wondering when, and if, they will arrive on local shores in any substantial way. Malcolm ...