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FeatureNissan starts imports through Mazatlan; latest NP300 also heading to dealers
Nissan has begun importing vehicles made in Japan, including the Juke, Urvan, and X-Trail, through the Mexican port of Mazatlan. Around 3,000 vehicles will be delivered to the port per month for onward delivery by rail to the Aguascalientes.Nissan Mexicana told Automotive Logistics that it would be providing more information ...
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FeatureWWL now moving Toyotas from Japan to US east coast
Toyota has chosen Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) to move its passenger vehicles to North America from Japan on new direct service. The latest contract is in addition to the finished vehicle ocean and land-based services that WWL provides for the carmaker between Japan and Europe.WWL also provides services for Toyota ...
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FeatureCLdN boosts ro-ro fleet and invests in terminals
European short-sea ro-ro company, CLdN RoRo, is adding 12 new vessels to its fleet as part of an expansion programme it says will allow it to broaden the range of services on offer while increasing capacity on existing routes.CLdN, currently operates 24 ro-ro vessels and offers more than 100 sailings ...
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FeatureAcumen wins BMW Group contract
UK logistics provider, Acumen Automotive Logistics, based in Coventry, has won a three-year contract with the BMW Group to deliver Minis from the carmaker’s Oxford plant to dealers in the UK.Acumen will deliver the vehicles to an area stretching from East Anglia on the east coast of England – to ...
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FeatureGM to halt production in Argentina in face of low demand in Brazil
General Motors has confirmed it will stop production at its plant in Argentina for four days this month because of low demand from Brazil, which is GM Argentina’s biggest export market, and the biggest vehicle export market for the country as a whole.GM makes the Chevrolet Classic model for export ...
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FeatureRo-ro operations launch at Pipavav port
NYK Auto Logistics (India), a subsidiary of the NYK Group, and APM Terminals Pipavav, have announced the commencement of ro-ro operations at Pipavav Port, India. The first shipment of vehicles from the port of Pipavav’s newly-opened ro-ro terminal have been loaded onto NYK’s ‘Grand Dahlia’ vessel this week.The pure car ...
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FeaturePost-panamax car carrier – Höegh Target – docks in UK
The Höegh Target, reputed to currently be the world’s largest pure car and truck carrier (PCTC), docked in the UK this week on its maiden voyage from China. The enormous ship, which has deck space of 71,400 sq.m and can carry 8,500 cars, arrived at the Port of Tyne, Newcastle, ...
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FeatureToyota to restart manufacturing near Tianjin
Toyota has announced plans to ‘gradually’ restart its production at its two joint venture plants near Tianjin port, China, from today.The plants are run by Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co.The OEM’s manufacturing operations have been suspended since the huge explosions at the port on August 12th, which killed more than ...
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FeatureIndustry mourns passing of Horst Mosolf, founder of the Mosolf Group
Horst Mosolf, the founder of automotive logistics specialist, Mosolf Group, has sadly died, aged 87.The founder remained in his position as the senior manager of the Mosolf Group until his last day.Dr Jörg Mosolf, managing partner and chief executive manager of the Mosolf Group said, “My father was a man ...
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FeatureMahindra Logistics focuses reorganisation on lucrative business sectors
Mahindra Group’s third party logistics provider – Mahindra Logistics – is concentrating its focus on a number of specific sectors as part of a major overhaul in its organisation designed to increase revenue.The company is restructuring operations under four new markets: automotive and engineering, automotive outbound, consumer and pharmaceuticals, and ...
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FeatureOEMs could share single system for import and export logistics
Carmakers already share numerous resources: they use the same ships, the same port terminals, the same infrastructure and logistics providers. However, should they be sharing more? Speakers at this year’s Import Export North America conference in Baltimore raised the idea that carmakers could put considerable amounts of data – from ...
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FeaturePanel discussion: working out the efficiency equation
This year’s Import Export North American conference covered a lot of territory, from managing changes in export and import patterns, new flows from Mexico, capacity limits and increasing safety and quality holds. To close the conference, a panel of vehicle logistics executives from Ford, BMW, Nissan and Honda discussed their ...
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FeatureManheim acquires Movex online vehicle logistics platform
Manheim, a vehicle remarketing, auction and retails company owned by Cox Automotive, has announced it is acquiring a majority shareholding in online vehicle logistics platform, Movex.Movex facilitates around 40,000 vehicle movements a year for franchised and independent dealerships, as well as vehicle remarketing organisations. The company formed in 2012 and ...
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FeatureUECC marks start of LNG vessel build with steel cutting ceremony
Following the announcement in March last year that UECC was investing in two pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) capable of being powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the company has held a formal steel cutting ceremony for the first of the two vessels at the NACKS shipyard in Nantong, ...
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FeatureTony Dent takes up new automotive role at port of Bristol
The Bristol Port Company in the UK has appointed Tony Dent to the newly created role of director - automotive trade. Dent moves from his role at the company as car trade manager. He has been overseeing car operations there for 12 years and prior to that worked in forest ...
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FeatureRecalls issued on BMW vehicles damaged by winter conditions at Halifax
Following the report earlier this year that harsh winter conditions had resulted in a snow storm burying vehicles at the Autoport facility in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, near the port of Halifax, Transport Canada – the government body that monitors transport safety – has now announced a recall on around ...
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FeatureDNB reports positive outlook for car carrier sector
Norwegian investment bank, DNB Markets, has reported a brighter outlook for the maritime car carrier sector as a result of slower fleet growth and rising demand, factors it said that have led to better vessel utilisation.In a report seen by analyst firm IHS Maritime, DNB stated that the market for ...
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FeatureHonda lands first HR-V volume from Mexico in the UK
Following the news that Honda had exported its first consignment of HR-V vehicles from Mexico destined for the UK market the carmaker confirmed this week that the vehicles have now landed in the UK through the port of Bristol.The vehicles were made at Honda’s Celaya plant in Mexico and exported ...
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FeatureKamarajar now leading automotive port on India's east coast
Competition to handle export vehicles from India's east coast is hotting up with the announcement that Kamarajar port (formerly Ennore port) has edged head of the port of Chennai to become the most important new vehicles handling facility. The news follows the announcement last month that L&T Ports, which operates ...
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FeatureTed Boudalis moves from Mercedes to WWL VSA
Ted Boudalis has taken up a new role as senior general manager of strategy and operations at WWL Vehicle Services America (WWL VSA), the US-based division of Norwegian provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics.Boudalis was, until the beginning of August, manager of strategic VPC operations at Mercedes-Benz USA, a role he had ...