All Feature articles – Page 343
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FeatureBohnet delivers press to BMW
Germany’s heavy-weight transport provider Spedition Bohnet has helped production line expert Schuler deliver a 170-ton press crown to from its factory in Göppingen, southern Germany, to BMW’s facility in Leipzig. At 169 tons (8.4 x 4.2 x 3.7 metres), the Schuler press crown was the largest piece of a servo ...
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FeatureWWL opens new terminal at Port of Melbourne
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has opened a $19m technical services centre at the Port of Melbourne, Australia to support its increase in ro-ro activity in the Oceania region. The company carries more than 100,000 cars, agricultural units and industrial units to and from Australia every year. The Laverton North Technical ...
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FeatureDHL cuts transit times for Precise Engineering
At a time when DHL is completely pulling out of domestic express delivery in the US there is good news for its commercial express delivery for automotive components. The company has just signed an exclusive two-year international shipping agreement with components and tooling supplier Precise Engineering based in Michigan to ...
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FeatureTMHUK chooses Norbert Dentressangle for distribution
French-based logistics and transport provider Norbert Dentressangle has signed a five-year dedicated distribution agreement with Toyota Material Handling UK, supplier of pallet and counterbalance forklifts, warehouse equipment and supporting services. The deal will give TMHUK full UK coverage using three of its own sites at Warrington, Castleford, and Old Dalby, ...
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FeatureDaimler rolls out PRP scheme for carriers
Daimler will roll out its performance-related-payment (PRP) scheme to its commercial vehicle carriers beginning in January 2009, a system by which carriers stand to gain or lose a percentage of their contracted payment depending on the audit of certain key performance indicators (KPIs). Daimler instituted PRP for its passenger car ...
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FeatureRail Force comes to Belgium
As part of the ongoing restructuring of B-Cargo, the freight division of Belgium’s national railway NMBS/SNCB, the Group has created a new business unit called Rail Force to focus on the movement of new cars. The new unit will also handle chemicals. It is the third product-specific group to come ...
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FeatureUK fuel duty adds to logistics sector woes
What the Freight Transport Association has called “an absolute betrayal of the logistics industry,” in the form of December’s 2.5 per cent increase in fuel duty in the UK, has added to the woes of an already debilitated car carrier industry there. The fuel duty, which is coming in two ...
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FeatureEukor and WWL open ro-ro terminal in Korea
Eukor Car Carriers and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics have opened a new ro-ro terminal in Pyeontaek, South Korea, 70km south of Seoul. Called Pyeontaek International Ro-Ro Terminal (PIRT) and situated at terminal 11, it offers storage for up to 5,000 cars, covers an area of 166,000m2, and has a wharf ...
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FeatureDaimler awards top carriers
These are tough times for finished vehicle carriers, but Daimler gave some cause to celebrate during its annual European Carrier Day, where around 100 transport companies gathered in Düsseldorf as the carmaker announced awards for its best carriers for passenger and commercial vehicles. The Günther Möhlmann company won for passenger ...
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FeatureNorfolk Southern receives Honda excellence award
Norfolk Southern has been awarded the 2008 Performance Excellence Award for Rail Origin Carrier of the Year by American Honda. The award is in recognition of the company’s work at Honda’s Lincoln, Alabama plant in the US, which makes the Odyssey minivan and Pilot SUV, as well as V-6 engines. ...
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FeatureDB Schenker to combine auto rail services
In 2009, DB Schenker will realign its automotive services to combine the networks and offerings from its three subsidiaries: Schenker Automotive RailNet, Spanish logistics provider Transfesa and finished vehicle logistics provider ATG. The automotive group, which will be focussed on rail and intermodal transport, will not be rebranded. The realignment ...
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FeatureAttacks change date of Automotive Logistics conference in Mumbai
This week was to have seen our own Automotive Logistics India conference take place in Mumbai. The attacks there forced many attendees to cancel their travel, so the event has been re-scheduled for 20-22 January 2009. The venue at the Renaissance Hotel is the same. Speakers and delegates have been ...
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FeatureDaimler extends service agreement with Chrysler
Daimler has extended a service agreement to handle the distribution of Chrysler’s vehicles in Europe until the end of 2009, but is resuming the distribution of Daimler imports to North America (which has until now been done by Chrysler). The new team will be based in the US in 2009 ...
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FeatureScania revives production in Iraq
Scania is planning to resume assembly operations and distribution at its Iskandariyah plant in Iraq following the signing of an agreement with the country’s government. The Memorandum of Understanding includes an initial delivery of 500 vehicles, including trucks and buses, with production starting in the third quarter of 2009. ...
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FeatureRo-ro expansion in China and India
January will see the official opening of a new $98m ro-ro terminal in the Port of Tianjin (pictured), the largest vehicle-handling port in northern China, located 170km southeast of Beijing. The terminal is owned by TPG Global Ro-ro Terminal Co., a venture between Tianjin Port Stock Company (51 per ...
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FeatureKia uses Kapratas centre for storage
Lithuanian vehicle logistics company UAB Kapratas has received the first shipment of new cars at its 50,000m2 Autocentrum A5 storage facility in Marijampole. As part of a one year contract the 300 Kia vehicles were transported from the Korean carmaker’s plant in Zilina, Slovakia and are destined for dealerships ...
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FeatureFiat boxes clever with Linpac's Tytan
Linpac Allibert has won a significant new contract for its new generation of Tytan returnable folding large containers (FLCs) with the Fiat Group. It is the first-ever group-wide packaging project that Fiat has undertaken, says Linpac, and adds that the OEM is using the containers across the full range of ...
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FeatureAre logistics providers being left on the shelf?
Although German carmakers have expressed willingness to offer aid to suppliers in an effort to avoid disrupting production, it is more likely such measures would be taken for part suppliers rather than logistics companies which find themselves in financial trouble, Automotive Logistics has learned. The failure or bankruptcy of ...
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FeatureFord ends contract with Express-1 in Indiana
Ford is terminating its contract with Express-1 Expedited Solutions for distribution from its high-velocity parts centre in Evansville in the US. The company provides daily, dedicated pick-ups from the Evansville centre, with nightly deliveries to Ford dealerships throughout the south Indiana region. The contract between the two companies is ...
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FeatureShip owners plan to scrap older vessels
Ship scrapyards are lining up for a busy period following reports that the world’s major PCTC owners could be ditching 25 per cent of their stock. Older tonnage – built between 1978-1998 – is being targeted as car carriers slash capacity in the wake of falling car sales around ...