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All OEMs articles – Page 78
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FeatureNissan moves Murano build to Mississippi
Nissan has confirmed that it will be moving production of its Murano crossover model from its Kyushu plant in Japan to the US, with the next generation of the vehicle to be produced at its Canton plant in Mississippi from 2014. The announcement has been made as the Canton ...
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FeatureJLR boosts global sales
Jaguar Land Rover has revealed that its global sales were up 30% in 2012 compared to the previous year, reaching almost 358,000 vehicles. Sales gains across 177 markets were led by China, where there was an increase of 71% to almost 72,000 vehicles last year. China was followed by ...
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FeatureHonda overhauls platform strategy
Honda is aiming to reduce the purchasing costs for its three top-selling global models by about 30% over the next four years through a new common platform strategy that includes sharing parts. As reported in the Nikkei business news service last weekend, the move follows the announcement that the ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
AGCO chooses K+N for PDCLogistics provider Kuehne + Nagel has signed a contract with agricultural machinery maker AGCO to manage its new aftermarket parts distribution centre (PDC) in Johannesburg, South Africa. The centre, which started operations in December, supplies parts within South Africa as well as to several ...
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FeatureRuscon delivers CKDs for GM Korea
General Motors’ division in Korea and Russian vehicle maker Gaz are set to benefit from a new rail service launched this month by Ruscon, the Russian logistics and intermodal operator subsidiary of Global Container Service. Ruscon is providing a block train service from the new Ust-Luga Container Terminal ...
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FeatureGM merges Africa operations
General Motors has announced this week that it is combining its operations in Africa into a new business unit with immediate effect.GM Africa will now incorporate Sub-Saharan operations, including manufacturing in South Africa, with North Africa, including its production facilities in Egypt and Kenya. “Bringing our operations in Africa ...
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FeatureGM's winning students propose future supply chains
A competition to encourage business students to look positively at careers in the automotive supply chain unearthed a wealth of innovation and opportunity. GM's Bill Hurles (left) with the winning team was made up of: Caleb Harshbarger, a junior from Botkins, Ohio; Xianwu (Ken) Lin, a junior from China; ...
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FeatureChristine Krathwohl and the global power player that is GM
GM’s intercontinental material shipments have risen dramatically, changing the dynamic of logistics management and purchasing at the carmaker. Christine Krathwohl, executive director of global logistics and supplier diversity, tells how she is looking for global logistics engineering from providers and increased visibility to keep costs and flows under control.General Motors’ ...
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FeatureCollaboration in China - also known as 'huddling for warmth'
Ellen Hua finds China’s logistics providers keen to pull together as growth in the country slows, putting an emphasis on building partnerships between larger and smaller providers and carmakers.With China’s economic growth and its integration into the global supply chain, logistics service providers in the country’s automotive sector have had ...
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FeaturePrem Verma and the coming outbound network for Tata
Tata’s vehicle logistics are changing; from transporting trucks on trailers to providing milkrun deliveries to rural dealers, Christopher Ludwig talks to Prem Verma about the current and coming outbound network in India.Prem Verma, the man responsible for delivering Tata Motors passenger cars and commercial vehicles, is fluent in logistics, able ...
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FeatureVW’s European exports to China will still grow
Volkswagen appears to be looking at exports to China as one option of maintaining plant output in Europe and minimising the risk of inventory build-up. According to its CEO, Martin Winterkorn, speaking from Sao Paolo in Brazil last November, the company could soon be exporting around 200,000 cars, including Audi ...
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FeatureTesla moves to Tilburg for distribution
Premium electric carmaker Tesla Motors has announced it will begin distribution of its Model S sedan from its new 6,000-square-metre European distribution centre at Tilburg in The Netherlands. It is the first time the vehicle has been distributed outside of the US since it was introduced last June ...
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FeatureHonda exports one millionth car from US
Honda has exported its one millionth car from the United States, 25 years after exports from the country began. The milestone vehicle was a silver Accord EX-L Sedan and was loaded on a Höegh car carrier at port Hueneme in California bound for Seoul in South Korea. The vehicle ...
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FeatureVW announces facilities in Russia
Volkswagen is building a new €250m ($332m) engine plant in Kaluga to supply its vehicle assembly plant there as well as for supply to contract production of VW vehicles at the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod. The carmaker has also signed a letter of intent for a new logistics ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
GM to stop assembly at BochumGeneral Motor’s European division Opel has confirmed it will close its Bochum plant in Germany in 2016. The announcement follows one in June when the carmaker said it would not be producing a successor for the current Zafira at the plant because of shrinking ...
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FeatureMajor Audi CKD hub for Asia exports
Audi is having a 46,000-square metre logistics facility built for it at the Logport II complex at Duisburg port in Germany for the export of complete knockdown (CKD) kits to China and India. Duisburg is an inland waterways port situated on the river Rhine near Essen.The facility, which is ...
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FeatureVW starts work on second India PDC
Volkswagen has broken ground on a second regional parts distribution centre in India near Mumbai. The 21,000-square-metre facility, which is expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2014, is being built at Bhiwandi with good access to the Nava Sheva port, as well as Mumbai and Pune. ...
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FeaturePT GAD will import Land Rover to Indonesia
The Indonesian importer for Jaguar cars, PT Grandauto Dinamika (PT GAD), will also begin importing and distributing Land Rover vehicles to the country from the beginning of next year. PT GAD, a joint venture between Wearnes Automotive group and Hadi Widjaja Tanaga, president of Premium Automobiles, has been importing ...
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FeatureHonda to boost exports from North America
Honda Motor has said it intends to boost vehicle exports from the US and could raise volumes from the current level of between 6%-7% to as much as 20% from the wider North American region. By the end of this year it will have exported a total of 1m vehicle ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Toyota to double capacity in IndonesiaToyota has announced it is planning to spend $1.35 billion over the next five years to boost production in Indonesia and will more than double capacity by 2014 with the introduction of a second plant in Karawang next year. It is also planning ...