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All OEMs articles – Page 79
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FeatureJLR signs up with Chery for China output
Jaguar Land Rover has signed a joint venture agreement with Chinese carmaker Chery for production of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles at a new $1.7 billion facility in Changshu near Shanghai, due for completion in 2014. It will be the first time that the company has manufactured vehicles from ...
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FeatureEuropean carrier performance rebounds for Daimler
Daimler has once again awarded its top performing vehicle logistics carriers in Europe during an annual ceremony and strategy meeting with providers held this past week at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, Germany. Three road carriers were presented with prizes, while Daimler’s logistics management also pointed to an overall ...
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FeatureAutoport handles Toyota trial with Vehnet
Toyota has recently completed a trial project for vehicle throughput at the Turkish Autoport terminal near Koecaeli, with operator Arkas Group. The trial involved 1,500 imported vehicles and 475 exports, and is the biggest vehicle handling project terminal has handled since it opened in June 2008. Ocean forwarder ...
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FeatureMercedes begins assembly of M-Class SKDs in India
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz division has started production of its M-Class SUV in India following the delivery of semi-knockdown (SKD) kits from the US that began this autumn. It is first time the carmaker has assembled M-Class in the country and it now joins C-Class, E-Class and S-Class luxury sedans production ...
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FeatureGeneral strike hits carmakers in Europe
Workers across Southern Europe are staging a coordinated general strike today that has shut car production plants, halted transport links and grounded flights across the region. The action is also hitting ports and customs offices. The European Day of Action and Solidarity against government austerity measures is being coordinated ...
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FeatureMazda to build Toyota model in Mexico
Mazda will build a Toyota sub-compact vehicle based on its own Mazda2 platform at the Mexican plant it is currently building in Salamanca, in the central state of Guanajuato, due for completion in 2014. It is the first time that Mazda has built a vehicle for its rival. Mazda ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Nissan India hikes car prices to cover logistics costNissan’s subsidiary in India has increased the price of its Micra hatchback and Sunny sedan models this month to counter what it said is a sharp increase in logistics and transport costs in the country. The move follows similar price increases ...
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FeatureVW expands Puebla, disputes port charges
Volkswagen in Mexico has inaugurated the latest addition to its distribution warehouse for passenger cars made at its Puebla plant, which has a daily output of around 2,500 Beetle, Golf and Jetta vehicles. The carmaker has invested $1.27m in the 1,500-square-metre facility and has said it will improve ...
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FeatureJapanese sales almost halved in China
Japanese carmakers have reported a second month of plummeting sales in China as consumers boycott their brands in the wake of a dispute between the two countries over island territory in the East China Sea. The decline has led to revised domestic production targets and a review of imports ...
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FeatureLondon Taxi goes into administration
Manganese Bronze Holdings (MBH), the UK company that has a joint venture with Chinese carmaker Geely Automobile Holdings to produce the iconic London taxi cab – The London Taxi Company – has gone into administration following four years of losses. It means the immediate loss of 156 jobs at ...
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FeatureFord announces plant closures in Europe
Ford announced a restructuring of its European operations last week that will see the closure of its Genk assembly facility in Belgium as well as two facilities in the UK: the Ford assembly plant in Southampton and its stamping and tooling operations in Dagenham. It means the loss of ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Ford to close Genk plant in restructure of Euro operationsFord is has said it will close its Genk plant in Belgium at the end of 2014 and move Mondeo, S-Max and Galaxy minivan production to its Valencia plant in Spain pending the outcome of a consultation ...
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FeatureOpel follows 4PL trend for parts
While the big news this year for logistics at General Motors Europe has been the pending outsourcing of its inbound and outbound logistics management to Gefco as a ‘fourth party logistics provider’ (4PL), for more than a year GM’s Opel/Vauxhall unit has also been working with another ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Redesigned Nano could reach US shores in three yearsA redesigned version of Tata's low-cost Nano minicar will come to the United States in three years, according to Ratan Tata, chairmen of India's Tata Group."The US is a very enticing market," Tata said in an interview during ...
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FeatureVW inaugurates multimodal centre near Wolfsburg
Volkswagen has expanded the logistics capacity at its Wolfsburg plant in Germany with a €26m ($33.5m) multimodal logistics centre in nearby Fallersleben. The new facility, which was inaugurated last week, will control the shipment of complete knockdown (CKD) kits to VW plants, as well as the ...
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FeatureBrazil's new auto plan will help imports, too
The Brazilian government has launched a new automotive plan to stimulate growth and production in the country, which should open up the way for lower taxes on both locally produced and imported vehicles. Since the plan was announced earlier this month, foreign carmakers, including China's JAC ...
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FeatureDelivering on VW's targets
Confident, cool, calmDeveloping new conceptsAdapting the European networkProviders and entrepreneurial decisionsHow to reduce emissions by 2018Transparency in visibilityThe Volkswagen Group has one of the world’s most complex distribution networks. Andrea Eck explains the advanced logistics concepts that are helping to make it faster, more precise and greener even as it ...
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FeatureToyota shows its colours in Europe
Toyota Motor Europe’s head of logistics, talks exclusively about how the global sales leader has been redesigning its supply chain and logistics as part of a strategy to improve costs and shorten order-todelivery cycles for regional productionA Strategic change;The inbound network;Mapping Toyota's flowsDiversifying the carrier base;Centralising packaging;Shortening the order-to-delivery cycle;Outbound ...
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FeatureLogistics in the front line of crisis response
Levent Yuksel, Toyota Motor Europe’s head of logistics, on how the global sales leader has been redesigning its supply chain and logistics as part of a strategy to improve costs and shorten order-todelivery cycles for regional production. He talks to Christopher Ludwig.Although Toyota has roared back to the top of ...
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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 ...