All Integrated LSPs articles – Page 14
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ArticleRhenus secures five-year contract renewal with Daimler
Daimler has awarded freight forwarding specialist Rhenus Logistics UK a five-year contract renewal to continue logistics services between the UK and Germany. Rhenus, which has worked with Daimler since 2010, is providing transport and logistics services at 67 collection points across the UK and Ireland for the delivery of automotive ...
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ArticleAmerican hauliers: Adding up the miles
Constraints on rail capacity and changing demand could see road hauliers covering greater distances, as well as facing greater challengesThe fact that the majority of volume vehicle movements in North America use rail – perhaps for 70-75% of miles covered, by some estimates – would suggest that most truck deliveries ...
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ArticleKeeping a yard ahead of the game
Outsourcing responsibility for end-of-line yard operations can present challenges as well as benefits for both carmakers and their logistics partnersIn the relentless drive to squeeze cost out of automotive supply chains, specialisation is the watchword. Carmakers increasingly see their own core competence as manufacturing; for their part, logistics providers understand ...
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ArticlePoonam Datta takes up a CCO role with Globe Express Services
Supply chain logistics provider, Globe Express Services (GES), has appointed Poonam Datta as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).Datta will be responsible for developing the company's global commercial strategy and further expanding its presence in the international market.Datta has a 25-year career in the logistics industry and has worked with ...
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ArticleSouth Korea part 5: Complexity made simple at Pyeongtaek
Still expanding during a period of relative stability or even decline in exports, Pyeongtaek-Dangjin port is also searching for terminal efficienciesPyeongtaek-Dangjin port is South Korea’s largest for moving finished vehicles, with volume in 2014 at a record 1.5m total units, including transhipment, used and commercial equipment. That is nearly three ...
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ArticleSouth Korea part 4: Full steam ahead
A mix of carrier, 3PL, 4PL integrator and central logistics purchaser, Hyundai Glovis’s strength and expansion rely on third parties as well as Hyundai-KiaThe rise of Hyundai Glovis has been the logistics parallel to Hyundai and Kia’s emergence as production and export superpowers. The company has solidified its position as ...
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ArticleSuper Group moves into Europe with In Time Express Logistik acquisition
South African supply chain management provider, Super Group, is acquiring 75% in German expeditor In Time Express Logistik for €153.5m ($168m). The deal is expected to be complete by the end of October this year.In Time has 20 branches across Europe, with its main base in Germany, and operations in ...
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ArticleChina modes: No single way forward
As the Chinese market faces slower growth, changing trade in ports, and the prospect of new trucking regulations, there is rising interest, as well as difficulty, in expanding rail and waterborne logisticsChina’s vehicle logistics industry is facing twin pressures. On one hand, the country’s production and sales of passenger vehicles ...
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ArticleVolvo extends customs brokerage contract with Ceva
Volvo Cars North America has extended its contract with Ceva Logistics for customs brokerage services for a further two years. The agreement extends the initial one-year contract Volvo signed with Ceva in March 2014.“The decision to extend our contract with Ceva for customs brokerage services was straightforward, based upon the ...
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ArticleGrimaldi builds MEX service and invests in Atlantic fleet
Maritime logistics provider, Grimaldi, is improving the frequency of its Mediterranean Express (MEX) service with the addition of a fifth vessel, which will be deployed from early 2016. The company already has four con-ro and multipurpose vessels supporting the service.From September it has announced that the frequency of shipments between ...
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ArticleEditor's note: swimming with the current in South Korea
South Korea is in a period of reflection and transition. Following decades of rapid expansion, the country is seeing a mix of slower growth with changing consumer and civic expectations. When I visited in late April, it was the anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster, which left hundreds of school ...
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ArticleECG column: Growing pains
ECG president Costantino Baldissara (pictured with vice-president Wolfgang Göbel, far left) says that the return of stronger European growth means that capacity is once again tight and carriers are on the lookout for driversFor many of us, the financial crisis, almost a decade ago already, is becoming a distant memory. ...
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ArticleFord veteran Ware joins AIAG
Lang E. Ware has joined AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group) as director of supply chain products and services.In his new position, Ware will be responsible for leading industry research, projects, programmes, events, training, and standards development related to the movement of products and/or data throughout the supply chain. Before taking ...
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ArticleTransport equipment: On the road to improvement
Transporter manufacturers face rising demand and complexity, with a need to balance regulations with load factors and growing concerns over driver ergonomicsGrowth in vehicle production in many markets has increased demand for car-haul equipment. But while there is demand for trailer manufacturers to produce more equipment, the sector must ...
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ArticleEuropa wins £1m Euro Car Parts contract
Europa Warehouse, a division of logistics operator Europa Worldwide Group, has won an 18-month, £1m ($1.5m) contract to provide 3PL warehousing and logistics services for UK-based Euro Car Parts.Supporting Euro Car Parts’ national distribution centres, Europa will handle the company’s mixed spares stock, which includes more than 5,000 different products.Euro ...
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ArticleHonda part 3: A history of integration
Over the course of some combined 60 years at Honda, Kevin Wade (left) and Dana McBrien (right) have had a huge influence on the carmaker’s logistics systems. And they are not done yet...It takes longer to till some kinds of soil than others. Creating a more integrated logistics network and ...
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ArticleSouth Korea part 1: A history of transformation
A relentless and often turbulent wind of change has blown through South Korea in recent decades, turning it from a low-cost industrial centre into a global technology and export powerhouseSouth Korea’s industrial renaissance began slightly later than the post-war booms in Japan or western Europe, however it has arguably endured ...
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ArticleYusen and TPCA: Perfecting a partnership
Rachael Hogg talks to Michal Peter, managing director of Yusen Logistics (Czech), and Radek Vosta, general manager, production control at TPCA about the two companies’ long-standing partnershipHas the relationship between Yusen and TPCA changed over the years?Michal Peter (MP): We’ve worked together over ten years. After a decade of cost ...
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ArticleSpain could produce 4m cars a year with more efficient logistics
Spain’s car and truck makers’ association ANFAC is projecting that vehicle production in the country will hit 3m by 2017. At a recent presentation of its forecast and ‘3 Million Logistics’ initiative, attended by Spain’s minister for transport, Ana Pastor, the association said that with more efficient logistics in place, ...
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ArticleGriffiths replaces Barquin at Ceva’s Contract Logistics division in Iberia
Philip Griffiths has taken over as business development director in the Contract Logistics division in Iberia at Ceva Logistics. He takes over from Izaskun Barquin who has moved to become director, Global Business Development for the consumer, retail and healthcare sectors.Griffiths joins Ceva from logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel where ...