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FeatureFedEx admits TNT hasn’t fully recovered from June’s cyber-attack
Global courier company FedEx has admitted that its subsidiary TNT Express is continuing to suffer from the effects of last month’s cyber-attack. The firm is still processing some transactions manually, it said, and some data may never be fully recovered.“All TNT depots, hubs and facilities are operational and most TNT ...
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FeatureKumar replaces Ramakrishnan as head of SCM at Honda Cars India
PR Ramakrishnan (pictured) has retired from his role as general manager of supply chain management at Honda Cars India after almost 10 years in the company.Honda Cars India has not officially confirmed it but Automotive Logistics understands his replacement to be Udit Kumar, who moves from his role as divisional ...
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FeatureNafta document shows US wants to retain tariff-free trade
A summary of the US’s objectives in upcoming negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) has highlighted a clear desire to retain tariff-free trade arrangements with Canada and Mexico.Though the summary highlights a reduction of the country’s two large trade deficits with its North American partners as the ...
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FeatureMexican ports report boom in vehicle traffic
Mexico's ports saw a 42% increase in finished vehicle traffic in the first five months of this year, figures from the country's Transport & Communications Ministry (SCT) have shown.During the period, total finished vehicle throughput reached 667,881 units, compared to just 470,350 units in January-May 2016.Ports in the Gulf of ...
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FeatureMercedes-Benz names Untertürkheim as fourth battery production facility
Mercedes-Benz has revealed that its Untertürkheim plant in Germany will be its fourth global battery manufacturing facility.Currently, the six-facility plant in the Neckar Valley, near Stuttgart, produces internal combustion engines, transmissions and axles. The OEM already plans to develop the plant to manufacture electric vehicle powertrain components, however, including electric ...
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FeatureDifferent digital paces
The headline above might well have read ‘industry and logistics 4.0’, ‘the industrial internet of things’, ‘factories of the future’, ‘smart supply chains’ or ‘manufacturing 2025’.Or we might have turned to one of a growing number of acronyms used to outline the car industry’s future, like Mercedes-Benz Car’s CASE or ...
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FeatureMichelin opens £10m distribution centre in Stoke-on-Trent
Michelin has opened its £10m European distribution centre (EDC) in Stoke-on-Trent in the UK.The 53,500 sq.m facility, which will also host a national distribution centre (NDC) for Michelin’s tyre service company, ATS Euromaster, has been redeveloped to include 26 loading bays.Together, the two sites can handle more than 5m tyres ...
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FeatureKuehne + Nagel fights off margin pressure in the first half of 2017
Earnings at Kuehne + Nagel (KN) in the first half of 2017 remained unchanged compared to the last year at 356m Swiss francs ($372m) – despite an 8.2% increase in net turnover to 8.8 billion Swiss francs. Gross profit during the period rose 3.7% to 3.38 billion Swiss francs.The company’s ...
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FeatureHiraguri replaces Ballard in logistics role at Toyota Motor Europe
Jonathan Ballard has left Toyota Motor Europe (TME) after 25 years with the company. He was most recently director of production control – manufacturing support, logistics at the company.Toyota said Ballard had left on June 26th for personal reasons.“We regret this decision but thank Jonathan for his contribution to Toyota ...
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FeatureSmart packaging: The quest for greater precision
Packaging is one area in the automotive supply chain in which greater connectivity and ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices have the potential to make significant improvements. Many of the chronic issues that accompany the management and flow of equipment, including missing or incorrect containers, damage to parts, as well as ...
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FeatureGAC China to provide logistics services for luxury car imports
Chinese car importer, Shandong Hi-Speed Qingdao West Coast Port, has chosen GAC China, the logistics and shipping services provider, to handle receiving, loading and freight services for luxury European vehicle imports to Qingdao and Hong Kong.GAC China said it would be handling 3,000-4,000 cars shipped from the ports of Hamburg ...
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FeatureProject cargo: Achieving mission impossible
Project cargo logistics is a term that covers a wide range of activities, from the movement of unusually large or heavy loads to the management of time-critical ones. In basic terms, it can be defined as the coordination, planning and management of particularly challenging logistics projects.In the automotive sector, examples ...
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FeatureJaguar Land Rover confirms E-Pace production will not be in UK
As part of the launch, a stunt driver completed a world-record barrel-roll jump over 15.3mJaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said its new Jaguar E-Pace compact SUV, launched on Thursday, will be produced in Austria and China – making it the first of its cars not to be manufactured in ...
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FeatureMiddle East and Africa: Ford opens up the highways
An army marches on its stomach, Napoleon is reputed to have said, in perhaps one of history’s earliest endorsements of the wisdom of sound logistics infrastructure. These days, as those in the automotive industry know, good logistics in the marketplace is often the key to winning business and meeting the ...
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FeatureSuzuki gets its delivery priorities in order
A prolonged period of strong sales growth in the UK means Suzuki now imports more than double the number of vehicles it did five years ago into the country. This expansion has put pressure on the company’s finished vehicle supply chain. It has also come at a time when customer ...
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FeatureRoyale opens Mexico office after fourfold rise in parts shipments
Time-critical shipment specialist, Royale International, has opened a divisional office in Mexico in response to a 400% increase in the movement of automotive parts over the last five years.According to Salvador Marin, senior account manager at Royale International, Mexico is now the company’s third biggest country in terms of revenue, ...
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FeatureIndian regulations: A rainbow of solutions
The Indian vehicle logistics market is in the midst of major change and disruption, much of it in the name of modernisation and improvement. New dimension and safety requirements for car carriers came into force in April, with carmakers and logistics providers scrambling to make their fleets compliant and secure ...
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FeatureEU-Japan trade deal dubbed a ‘positive signal’ for automotive sector
An economic partnership agreed in principle between EU and Japan that would see duties removed on a large amount of goods traded between two regions has been welcomed by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA).Significantly, the agreement – which covers goods accounting for a third of global GDP – has ...
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FeaturePSA uses helicopters to circumnavigate blockade
Groupe PSA was forced to use helicopters to transport parts to its car plants in France last week, after workers from financially troubled parts supplier GM&S, which is in receivership, travelled 200km from their base in La Souterraine to block access to PSA’s parts factory in Sept-Fons.A spokesman for the ...
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FeatureCosco Shipping makes $6.3 billion bid for OOIL
Cosco Shipping lines is leading a bid to buy rival Orient Overseas (International) Ltd (OOIL) for HK$49.25 billion ($6.3 billion), as consolidation in the shipping industry continues.OOIL is the seventh largest container shipping company in the world, with extensive container shipping routes and networks. Cosco Shipping is currently the fourth ...