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FeatureMurano move unconfirmed says Nissan
Nissan said this week that reports it was moving the Murano crossover from Japan to the US in 2014 were purely speculative. Reports in the Japanese business press said that the carmaker was planning to start producing the Murano at the Smyrna plant in Tennessee, which already ...
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FeatureSpot rates increase as strike looms
As the threat of widespread strike action by dock workers on US East and Gulf coasts draws nearer, shipping companies are reported to be raising spot prices for containers on routes between Asia and the US.Citing recent data from the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index, Lloyd’s Loading List ...
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Hoegh to charter additional car and truck carriersHöegh Autoliners will charter two new 6,500 capacity Pure Car Truck Carriers (PCTC) in 2014 to replace existing vessels. The vessels will be owned by shipowner Ocean Yield and will be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering' s (DSME) ...
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FeatureUS accuses China of unfair levies
The US government has launched a new trade case with the World Trade Organisation against Chinese vehicle and parts export subsidies that Trade Representative Ron Kirk said were unfair and distorted international trade. The latest challenge contests $1 billion in subsidies and follows on from an earlier ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Bob Socia, GM’s vice president of Global Purchasing and Supply Chain, is to replace Kevin Wale as president of GM China and chief country operations officer, China, India and ASEAN following the latter’s decision to retire at the end of October. Socia will take up the role ...
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FeatureJapanese anti-trust commission raids car carriers
The offices of some of the world’s largest shipping companies, including NYK Line, Mitsui OSK Lines, K-Line. Eukor Car Carriers and WWL, have been raided by the Japan Fair Trade Commission for allegedly violating the antitrust law in transporting vehicles and other exports. The companies control about ...
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Ecuador increases car exports to Venezuela and looks at closer tiesAlmost 3,000 finished vehicles were sent to the port of Cabello, in Venezuela, from the Ecuadorian port of Esmeraldas in August, the first of six consignments totalling 12,700 vehicles to be exported by sea between now and December. This compares ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Peter Menzel has moved from his position as director and executive officer of the Car Carrier Group at ocean forwarder K-Line to take up a newly created position at car carrier Neptune Lines as commercial director. He was at K-Line Europe for almost ten years.Menzel has relocated to the ...
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FeatureUS ports strike could freeze throughput on East Coast
Ports on the US East Coast and Gulf region, which include some of the busiest vehicle processing ports in North America, are facing the threat of widespread strike action by dock workers if talks regarding overtime rules and container royalties are not resolved by the end of the month. ...
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FeatureVehicle throughput at Veracruz up 30 per cent
In the first seven months of this year, the Mexican port of Veraruz handled 508,312 finished vehicles, an increase of 31.2% on the comparable period in 2011.The port authority said that Volkswagen, Ford and Chrysler accounted for the majority of models handled, with the balance built mostly by Toyota, ...
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FeatureFreight rates for sea and air July-August 2012
Container shipping spot rates on the Asia-Europe trade lane remained high in July and August at around $3,500 following a light increase between March and May this year when carriers withdrew capacity and forced rates up. Container loading on the route rose to $4,000 per FEU, a 110.4% increase in ...
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Ennore passes 200k exports, starts imports The port of Ennore reached a total of 200,000 vehicle exports at the beginning of August and also received its first vehicle imports – 110 Mitsubishi Pajero SUVs transported by K-Line from Thailand.The port, located just north of Chennai on India’s east coast, began ...
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FeatureMazda completes $20m PDC project
Mazda Canada has opened its new Western Regional Operations and Parts Distribution Centre (PDC) at Langley in British Columbia. The 12,000-square-metre facility represents the final part of Mazda’s $20m Parts Distribution Centre Network expansion project, which was announced in 2010. The network comprises of seven PDCs in North America, two ...
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ACL books innovative con-ro vesselsAtlantic Container Lines, the Grimaldi-owned north-Atlantic ocean forwarder, has signed a contract with Chinese state-owned Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for the delivery of five container/ro-ro (con-ro) vessels that, when completed by 2015, will be the largest vessels of their kind in the world, according to the company. ...
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FeatureMercedes US turns to M-Class kit exports for Asia
Mercedes-Benz US International has started exporting SKD kits of its third generation M-Class SUV to India, Indonesia and Thailand from its Tuscaloosa facility in Alabama in a move designed to get around the high costs of exporting the model as a finished vehicle. Each target market has protectionist trade ...
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Kuehne+Nagel builds service for BMWKuehne + Nagel has expanded BMW’s supply centre in Wörth, Germany by 50,000-square metres to feed inbound parts to the carmaker’s plants in Dingolfing, Landshut and Leipzig. The addition brings the footprint at the facility to 95,000 square metres. The logistics provider is handling ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Kuehne+Nagel builds service for BMWKuehne + Nagel has expanded BMW’s supply centre in Wörth, Germany by 50,000-square metres to feed inbound parts to the carmaker’s plants in Dingolfing, Landshut and Leipzig. The addition brings the footprint at the facility to 95,000 square metres.The logistics provider is handling warehousing, sequencing ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Scott Mize, formerly manager of national transportation at Mazda North America Operations, has moved to take up the role of national manager of Vehicle Logistics at Glovis America following the departure of Scott Goodwin.As reported last month, Goodwin has moved to take up a new role as director ...
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FeatureAPL and Vascor launch auto LSP in India
Logistics providers APL Logistics and Vascor have joined forces to step up their business focus in India’s fast-growing vehicle market, according to an interview with the chief operating officer of the new company with Automotive Logistics News. The logistics provider, called APL Logistics Vascor Automotive Private Limited (LVA), will provide ...
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FeatureSiem route via San Diego offers alternative to rail
The port of San Diego received more than 1,000 Volkswagen Beetles and Jettas at its National City Marine Terminal at the beginning of August as part of a regular service between Mexico, the US and transpacific markets operated by Siem Car Carriers. Volkswagen is seeing strong US sales ...