Europe – Page 173
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FeatureFull ESteam ahead for Opel inbound
Opel has a new logistics service provider for all inbound deliveries to its German plants and regional distribution centres in the Rhein-Ruhr/Mannheim and Saarland region. The new contract, which starts at the beginning of August, follows the insolvency of Opel’s previous provider Lueg. The new company, a 50:50 joint venture ...
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FeatureCNH fights downturn with global contracts
Case New Holland, a subsidiary of Fiat, has signed three global logistics contracts while undergoing reorganisation in the face of a dramatic drop in the demand for agricultural and construction equipment worldwide. CNH Global’s sales for the second quarter dropped 33% to $3.6 billion, compared with $5.3 billion for the ...
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FeatureVW to cut logistics cost at Kaluga
Hoping to attract international suppliers to its operation in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen Group Rus is taking a leading role in the development of a new industrial complex in the Grabtsevo industrial zone. The carmaker has been allocated 800 hectares in the new ‘A-Park project’. Half of that space will be ...
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FeatureFord's Frederiek Toney to lead Customer Service division
Frederiek Toney (pictured) will become Vice President, Ford Customer Service Division and a corporate officer of Ford from September 1st this year. Currently the Executive Director, Global Material Planning and Logistics (MP&L), Toney has been among the key figures in driving change and collaboration in Ford’s North American and global ...
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FeatureAfter a decade, WWL looks even more to logistics
Car carrier and finished vehicle logistics provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), while its shipping revenue and profits have reeled from the drop in car sales and overcapacity of ro-ro tonnage, has achieved more stability and new business for its logistics and land operations, according to CEO Arild Iversen (pictured). To ...
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FeatureA different face for premium freight
Several asset-light premium freight third party logistics providers to the automotive industry in Europe have told Automotive Logistics that, following several months when business nearly disappeared, their revenue and performance is now beginning to match or outpace that of 2008, although the processes around such freight appear to be gaining ...
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FeatureToyota and Nissan localise electric cars in Europe
Pictured, left to right: Katsunore Kojima, MD Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK, Tadashi Arashima, President Toyota Motor Europe, Lord Peter Mandelson, UK Business Secretary Announcements last week that Toyota will begin its first hybrid production in Europe at its Burnaston factory in the UK, along with Nissan’s revelation that it ...
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FeaturePotential EU-Korea trade agreement riles the ACEA...
The European Union and South Korea were still not ready to sign off a free trade agreement (FTA) when talks concluded on Monday in Stockholm, Sweden, thanks to “outstanding questions” from some EU members and opposition by European carmakers about the threat to European manufacturing they say that the policy ...
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FeatureWWL Cruzes into Bristol
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has delivered 2,133 Chevrolets to the UK aboard its PCTC M/V Tijuca. The vehicles were offloaded at Portbury, Bristol and included the first customer-ordered Cruze models for the UK market, ready for debut in dealerships this month. The Tijuca began service this year and is the biggest ...
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FeatureNissan will export Micra from India
Nissan will begin exporting the next Micra from its new factory in Oragadam near Chennai, India once production begins there in the middle of next year. Exports could account for 60-70% of production. The factory, which will have an annual capacity of 200,000, is slated to begin production by May ...
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LSPs must weather the storm
Much sought after optimism in the European vehicle market has been hit by gloomy forecasts from leading business analysts who have warned of an increased risk to carmakers' cash flows in the first half of 2010 and a threat to half of all European suppliers, including finished vehicle logistics providers. ...
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FeatureHonda chooses Ceva for inbound at Swindon
Honda of the UK Manufacturing (HUM) has chosen Ceva Logistics to manage its European inbound logistics operation to the Swindon plant. The three-year contract closely follows the re-start of production there following a four-month shutdown at the end of January. Ceva’s overland distribution division Ceva Ground Europe will manage supplier ...
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FeatureGMSA awards providers for going extra mile
General Motors South Africa has recognised two of its logistics providers at the Supplier of the Year 2008 awards held at the company’s Vehicle Conversion and Distribution Centre in Port Elizabeth last Thursday. Höegh Autoliners and To Anywhere Carriers took awards in the Logistics category. Höegh Autoliners transports Opel imports ...
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FeatureCAT prepares for the upturn at Southampton
CAT Group has opened a €1m vehicle processing centre at the Port of Southampton in the UK so that it can become “the undisputed leader in the automotive logistics industry”. It aims to do so by offering a range of bespoke services at the new facility, including delivery chain management, ...
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FeatureNissan chooses MOL for Indian exports
Nissan has chosen Mitsui OSK Lines for inland export activity from the plant it is building near Chennai in India. Situated in Oragadam, the plant is being promoted by an alliance partnership with Renault called Renault Nissan Automotive Indian Private Ltd, though the French carmaker will not be part of ...
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FeatureFirst global standard on damage reporting now available
The US-based Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) is collaborating with the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG) on a global standard for reporting damage to vehicles during transport. The Global Standard Logistics Damage Codes have been developed by both groups in cooperation with ECG’s Quality Standard Working Group, as well ...
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FeatureMercedes upgrades Kassel plant with MLOG
This month Mercedes Benz is completing the second phase of a major materials handling and storage refurbishment at its Kassel manufacturing plant in Germany. The plant makes axle systems and parts for trucks, vans, buses and trailers, and German supplier MLOG Logistics has replaced its entire racking structure as well ...
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FeatureMeeting drastic demands in Russia
The Automotive Logistics Russia conference in Moscow this week revealed a market reeling from its first major decline in vehicle sales for nine years, with sales drops of more than 50% in many segments. But while the logistics landscape has also changed drastically, with issues like a lack of transport ...
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FeatureGefco 'justified' in UK port threat over taxes
Gefco is threatening to scale back its automotive business at the UK port of Sheerness in the face of a retrospective rates bill for £3m. In a letter to Sir Peter Westmacott, the British Ambassador in Paris, and seen by The Telegraph, Gefco’s Vice President for Vehicle Transport and Logistics, ...
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FeatureFirst Nissan shipment through Vladivostok
A new agreement between Vladivostok Automobile Terminal and logistics provider Russian Transport Lines has seen the first shipment of Nissan cars through the port destined for customers in the far east of the country. “This is a trial shipment of Nissan new cars within an agreement with Russian Transport Lines ...