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FeatureGM's Layer moves to US purchasing role
General Motor’s Peter Layer, head of Global Purchasing and Supply Chain Russia/CIS, is moving to a new role for the carmaker in North America as director, Purchasing, Chassis Systems. He will be based in Warren, Michigan.Layer is being replaced by Rowina Fornica who is moving to take up the role ...
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FeatureUpdate: Gefco Group to use Mexico as global automotive hub
*This story has been updated on July 30th from its original version following comment from the company The Gefco group has announced plans to expand its Mexican operations, including taking over an international platform that will supply automotive parts to the Latin American region. The ...
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FeatureCargolift to handle inbound for Renault-Nissan
Cargolift is reported to have secured a contract with Renault-Nissan in Brazil to handle the transport of inbound parts from regional suppliers to Nissan’s factory in Resende and to the Renault facility in Pinhais. Operations to the Nissan plant will begin in October this year, and thereafter and at ...
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FeatureBMW Brilliance parts centre will be biggest in China
Work will begin this year on a new parts distribution centre (PDC) for BMW Brilliance Automotive near Shanghai, planned to become the joint venture’s largest such facility in China – at 75,000 square metres – once all phases of development are complete. The centre is being built and developed by ...
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FeatureThe supply chain of the future
In 2033 the supply chain will still use trucks, ships, planes and trains to move material, but the level of visibility will be intensely precise, believes Craig Simon, FedEx, President and CEO Supply ChainFor most of history, the supply chain that links the world together today would have been unimaginable. ...
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FeatureThai-Tang to replace Brown as Ford’s global purchasing leader
Ford’s Tony Brown, group vice-president of global purchasing, has announced he is retiring after a 36-year career, 11 of which were spent as Ford’s purchasing boss. He will be replaced by Hau Thai-Tang (pictured), who is currently vice-president of engineering. Ford said Thai-Tang’s extensive experience leading the company’s global engineering ...
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FeatureBlank takes up role at Agility in Europe
Thomas Blank has taken up a new role at integrated logistics provider Agility as managing director of Area Central Europe. He replaces Thomas Peikert who has left the company after 23 years.Blank moves from his previous role as vice-president and managing director of Geodis Global Solutions for the Asia Pacific ...
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FeatureTop changes at DB Schenker in the UK
DB Schenker Rail (UK) is appointing Geoff Spencer as its new CEO from the start of September this year. Spencer returns to the UK after three years as head of European Resource Management in the European DB Schenker Rail organisation, based in Mainz, Germany.“I am delighted to welcome Geoff Spencer ...
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FeatureBoth sections of stricken Mitsui vessel now sunk
Both halves of Mitsui OSK Line’s stricken container vessel MOL Comfort have now sunk in the Indian Ocean with a loss of more than 4,000 TEUs. The vessel, which broke in half in heavy seas after sustaining damage on June 17th, was en route to Saudi Arabia from Singapore, having ...
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FeatureJCB to open hub for inbound parts supply
Construction equipment maker JCB is opening a hub in North Staffordshire in the UK to receive inbound components for shipment its manufacturing plants around the world.When fully operational the facility will have throughput in the region of 40m parts per annum or around 500,000 pallets according to JCB's Joannes Van ...
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FeatureGM will make Mokka in Spain in 2014
GM’s Opel/Vauxhall division will start assembling the Mokka at its plant in Zaragoza, Spain in the second half of next year. The company said it was in response to high demand for the small SUV in Europe and will help secure 5,800 jobs at the Spanish plant, which currently makes ...
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Russian regulations risk delivery days and production
Over the last three months, from the beginning of April to the end of June, Russia’s Ministry of Transport has had in force regulations on truck axle weights that have restricted the normal operating limits of ten tonnes and reduced them to between three and four tonnes.According to the Ministry, ...
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FeatureUkraine could suspend special import duties on cars
The Ukrainian government may scrap the excessive duties on imported cars that it has levied since April this year within the next couple of months, according to the press service of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The duty has been opposed by a number of countries, including Japan, as ...
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FeatureHasenfuss heads procurement at VW Commercial Vehicles
Jörn Hasenfuss is the new head of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ Procurement division, replacing Rüdiger Koch who is taking up a new role within the VW Group.Hasenfuss, who is now member of the Management Board for the division, moves over from his role as first vice-president and commercial executive vice president ...
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FeatureRZD Logistics re elects Baskakov as chairman
Russian Railways Logistics has appointed Petr Baskakov as its chairman for a second year. Baskakov is CEO of TransContainer.Since 2003, Baskakov has been the head of TransContainer branch of OJSC Russian Railways and later OJSC TransContainer when it was formed as a joint stock company in 2006. He has more ...
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FeatureBVL appoints Sabine Hucke as MD
Sabine Hucke has been appointed managing director of Germany’s logistics interest group BVL (Bundesvereiningung Logistik). She takes over from Jörn Fontius who is leaving the BVL after eight years to pursue other career opportunities.Hucke was previously head of Central Logistics at car interiors supplier F.S. Fehrer Automotive and brings wide-ranging ...
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FeatureYusen’s Veitch wins warehousing award
Ian Veitch, managing director of Yusen Logistics (UK), has won the chairman’s award at the UK Warehousing Association’s annual awards.The award is presented to an individual or company who has made “a real and lasting contribution to the logistics industry”."I am absoutely delighted to receive this award," said Veitch. "It ...
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FeatureDHL strike could hit Jaguar Land Rover plants
Logistics workers from the Unite union have voted in favour of strikes over a pay dispute with DHL Supply Chain across all of Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) manufacturing plants in the UK, a move that could severely disrupt production. DHL and JLR have said that contingency plans are currently in ...
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FeatureLondon Gateway could boost flows of components by rail
Rail services for automotive parts in the UK could grow with the launch of services this year by DB Schenker at DP World London Gateway, a new port outside London that starts operations in the fourth quarter of this year.According to Adrian Fleming, head of sales and marketing at DB ...
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FeatureHigher parts exports could change JLR’s logistics network
Jaguar Land Rover could see changes to its parts export and import flows into and out of the UK and Europe in the coming years as it expands production in overseas locations, notably China. Growing exports of components could mean more balanced material flows in and out of the UK, ...