All articles by Automotive Logistics – Page 35
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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 ...
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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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FeatureGefco responds to increase in OEM near sourcing
Following last month’s survey update from the UK’s Automotive Council, which showed that the supply chain could benefit from an additional £3 billion in additional business, on top of the £26.6 billion potential spend by carmakers originally announced in May this year (read more), Gefco has outlined how it ...
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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 ...