All South America articles – Page 27
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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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FeatureGroupe CAT buys Toquero's transport division
French vehicle logistics provider Groupe CAT has bought Toquero Group’s transport division and its Madrid businesses for an undisclosed sum. The acquisitions include Toquero Express SLU (in Spain) and Toquero France. It also includes Toquero’s ULTT subsidiary in Spain and its Autotrans subsidiary in Portugal.The purchase allows ...
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FeatureBiggest spend for Honda UK in a decade
Honda has announced a £267m ($430m) investment programme at its Swindon plant, the biggest spend the carmaker has made in the UK in more than 10 years. The investment was announced at the same time Honda launched its latest CR-V model and centres around the installation of ...
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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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FeatureFormer logistics exec dies after killing police officer
Ricky Coley, who was a director at CNC Holding and a former logistics executive at Ford, has died following a gun battle with police in the West Bloomfield Township district of Detroit that also left one police officer dead. Coley is suspected of having committed suicide following ...
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FeatureOpel adds sixth model to Poland plant
The confirmation this week that GM Europe’s Opel plant in the Gliwice, Poland will be making the new Cascada – the carmaker’s recently-revealed convertible Astra – from January next year brings the number of models made on the same assembly line to six. The carmaker already makes ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
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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FeatureBrazil to invest $66 billion in transport infrastructure
Brazil’s government has announced a stimulus package worth R133 billion ($66 billion) designed to improve its transport infrastructure and recover economic growth, which has slowed to less than 2% over the past year, down from 7.5% two years ago.Up to $20 billion of the sum will be used to build ...
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FeatureMitsubishi stops shipments of i-MiEV to PSA
Mitsubishi Motors has stopped shipments of its i-MiEV electric vehicle to French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroën. A spokesman for PSA said that the halt was temporary and put in place to “adjust stocks”. The French carmaker is now believed to have more than 4,400 of the vehicles held in ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
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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FeatureDB doubles Poland-UK service
DB Schenker Rail is adding another weekly train to its service between Wroclaw in Poland and London in the UK from October this year. The company has been running one weekly train on the service since November last year but has seen increasing demand from customers across a number ...
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FeatureUK hungry for local content and capacity
The UK’s Automotive Council has released a new report that identifies £3 billion ($4.7 billion) worth of additional contractual opportunities for supply chain companies operating in the country, with the potential growth in volumes of direct benefit to logistics service providers.In the report, called Growing the UK Automotive Supply ...
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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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FeatureStrike action hits South Korean carmakers
Workers at Hyundai’s car plants in South Korea are staging a second week of strikes this week over pay and conditions. The company confirmed that up until last Friday, total lost production had reached 23,608 vehicles, equal to 484.6 billion won ($430m). This week’s repeated action could double that ...
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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 ...
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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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FeatureToll sells Aussie carrier business to Prixcar
One of Asia’s leading integrated logistics providers, Toll Group, has completed the sale of its finished vehicle distribution service division in Australia to PrixCar, the automotive storage, processing and repair specialist in which it has a 50% stake. Toll said the sale will generate $35m after tax.Toll Group will ...
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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 ...