All South America articles – Page 26
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FeatureHello BRIC road
Safety legislation could worsen driver shortageStimulating demandFeeling the painTegma to spread its reach further Transporting tractorsGefto taps technologyNew legislation and a volatile market are hurting road haulage companies in Brazil. Tony Danby assesses the scenario for vehicle road haulage in Latin America’s largest market.Brazil’s road haulage segment for finished vehicles ...
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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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Light at the end of a long tunnel
In August, Brazil’s government announced a stimulus package worth R133 billion ($66 billion) designed to improve its already outdated transport infrastructure, in which only 6% of the roads are paved, the rail network is a woefully inadequate and there have been few concessions or significant developments for port terminals in ...
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FeatureThe right pick and mix for Meritor
Production and logistics network;Monitoring costs with a TMS;Aftermarket logistics;Global transport management.While manufacturers are often keen to stress their ability to monitor their supply chains and logistics to achieve the best cost and efficiency, many tend to leave much of the execution and administration of this to third-party logistics providers, from ...
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Tax advantages keep auto investment in Poland
There are new developments being discussed for an automotive cluster in the Silesia region of Poland near GM’s Opel’s plant in Gliwice, which lies at the heart of the Katowice Special Economic Zone (KSEZ). It reaffirms the importance of the automotive industry to the region since Opel decided in 1996 ...
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FeatureTax advantages keep auto investment in Poland
A less taxing future?;World container index Shanghai-Rotterdam;Drewry's air freight price index.There are new developments being discussed for an automotive cluster in the Silesia region of Poland near GM’s Opel’s plant in Gliwice, which lies at the heart of the Katowice Special Economic Zone (KSEZ). It reaffirms the importance of the ...
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FeatureChina slowdown prompts supply chain network changes
An ever-changing picture. How logistics providers are relentlessly developing their networks despite the slowdown in Chinese productionDelphi aims to take control;Lear tackles logistics cost issues;Fiat-Chrysler's export network;Gefco builds on joint ventures;Go west, 3PLs.Although the world’s largest vehicle-producing nation has experienced a slowdown in manufacturing over the past year, carmakers, tier ...
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FeatureBuilding on the bridge
Marcia MacLeod reports on what suppliers and logistics providers in the Turkish market are doing to localise automotive production and improve logistics costs for the total supply chainTurkish automotive production is growing again, with opportunities in logistics for both established third-party logistics providers and new entrants to the country. Turkey’s ...
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FeatureThreat to US ports lifted
Fears of a widespread strike at ports along the US East and Gulf coasts next month have been allayed following an agreement between the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) and the International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) to extend collective bargaining for another 90 day period to the end of ...
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FeatureShifting markets mean a sea change for logistics
With US domestic freight trends weak, inventory lagging on production and exports from the US to Europe and China slowing, the forecasts from the opening session at this week’s Automotive Logistics Global conference in Detroit sounded like more bad news for the transport and logistics industry. But while ...
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FeatureMiami Uni wins GM/Wayne State supply chain competition
A team of students representing Miami University were chosen as the winners of the second annual GM/Wayne State University Supply Chain competition, held at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit this past weekend. The event featured presentations by teams from 16 universities that were based on automotive supply ...
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FeatureNYK buys controlling stake in Rolf SCS
Japan’s NYK has bought a 51% controlling stake in Russian vehicle logistics provider Rolf SCS, a division of the Rolf Group, in a new joint venture designed to enhance finished vehicle logistics services in Russia and expand the customer base of each company. Rolf will retain the remaining ...
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FeatureRussian Railways wins bid for Gefco
Months of speculation over the sale of PSA Peugeot Citroen’s logistics subsidiary Gefco was brought to an end last week when it was announced that Russian Railways (RZD) had emerged as the winning bidder for a 75% stake in the company worth €800m ($1.04 billion). RZD is the ...
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FeatureThyssenKrupp invests in Alabama
ThyssenKrupp Materials North America (TKMNA), a division of the materials giant ThyssenKrupp, is investing $13m to build a new materials processing and distribution centre in Woodstock, Alabama. The centre will serve the Coil Processing Group division. A spokesman for the company said the decision to locate the new ...
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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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FeatureGlobal round up
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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FeatureProtests shut Japanese plants in China
Japanese carmakers have been forced to shut plants in China and seen dealerships attacked by rioting protestors angry at Japan’s recent move to purchase the territorially-contested islands in the East China Sea, known as the Diaoyu by the Chinese and the Senkaku by the Japanese . The ...
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FeatureUK takes steps to secure auto growth
According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders forecast, Britain's OEMs will break records within the next three years, producing over 2m vehicles per annum. But success brings problems, too - most notably in logistics. Eighty per cent of production parts are already made in Britain ...
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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 ...