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FeatureGlobal round up
GMSA chooses Motorvia for vehicle deliveriesSouth African finished vehicle carrier Motorvia is to start carrying vehicles for General Motors South Africa (GMSA) following a successful tender for business approved last week. The new agreement will run for three years. Uitenhage-based Motorvia provides specialised vehicle transport and delivery services for ...
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FeatureToyota supply must be local, common and reliable
Toyota has revealed more details about the standardisation of parts and regionalisation of procurement as part of a supply chain overhaul that is being implemented over the next five years. The carmaker is targeting three areas as part of the new strategy designed to limit future disruption to the supply ...
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FeatureAuto is leading exports from Turkey
According to figures from Turkey’s Automotive Manufacturer’s Association, 66% of the country’s vehicle production was exported in the first eight months of 2011, around 534,000 vehicles of a total production for the same period of 810,000. Automotive is now the leading export sector in Turkey with a 20% share in ...
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FeatureCarol secures Rotterdam discount for Eukor
Eukor has secured discounted port dues at the port of Rotterdam as part of the World Port Climate Initiative, which has been set up to reward companies with the cleanest ocean-going vessels. The initiative, which includes 55 ports around the globe, was established last year and measures environmental performance, including ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
ADB investment in India railRail services in India, including those for freight, are to benefit from loans of up to $500m from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The multi-tranche financing facility for India’s Railway Sector Investment Programme is designed to improve services along some of its busiest freight and passenger ...
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FeatureBMW beats a million deliveries so far
BMW Group has increased global vehicle deliveries for the first eight months of the year to more than a million vehicles (1,073,363), including MINI and Rolls Royce, beating last year’s figures (just under 920,000) over the same period by nearly 17%. From January to August 2011, 893,474 BMW brand vehicles ...
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FeatureGefco expands fleet with Lohr
Gefco has expanded its vehicle carrying fleet in the UK with nine transporters built to a new specification that will allow the logistics provider to carry multiple combinations of vehicles and up to 11 passenger cars at a time. The company said the transporters, provided by Lohr, will enable it ...
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FeatureSuppliers count the cost of Toyota risk strategy
As Japanese carmakers look at ways to limit future disruption to the supply of parts following the devastating earthquake that hit the country in March, with lingering problems still being felt throughout the supply chain, Toyota outlined three steps last week that it is implementing with the aim of solving ...
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FeatureSurprise departures as Fiat reorganises
The widespread organisational changes at Fiat that were announced at the end of July have now taken effect and not without some surprise departures from the supply chain and commercial departments, namely Paola Petrone (pictured left), who was senior vice president of Supply Chain Management, and Andrea Formica (pictured right), ...
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FeatureBLG sets up JV in China
BLG Logistics has signed a letter of understanding for a new joint venture with the Chinese supply chain provider Cinko SCM. The companies will jointly operate a PDI centre at the port of Tianjin’s ro-ro terminal, called BLG Cinko Autotec, and will export vehicles produced in China. Import vehicles for ...
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FeatureGreen focus for Toyota at Long Beach
Toyota Motor Sales has renewed its lease at the port of Long Beach for the import of vehicles through its Pier B vehicle processing facilities. The 20-year lease, which will run to the end of 2028 (it is retroactive to January 2009), involves a $240m investment in 58-hectare site. Toyota ...
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FeatureKuehne + Nagel opens Pune auto centre
Logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel has expanded its presence in India with the start of new operations at a facility in Pune dedicated to the automotive sector. The ‘Automotive Solution Centre’, established in one of the company’s existing facilities in Pune, will supply a range of services to carmakers in ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
Mahindra exports global platform SUVIndian carmaker Mahindra & Mahindra has said it will export its new XUV500 SUV to South Africa at the same time that domestic sales begin in December this year, with further plans for export to Western Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Australia. The car, which ...
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FeaturePSA re-enters Indian market
PSA Peugeot-Citroën has announced it will re-enter the Indian market with the building of a new €650m ($920m) manufacturing facility in the state of Gujarat, India for the production of the Peugeot 508 from 2014. The facility, which will be based in the Sanand automotive cluster, will integrate engine and ...
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FeatureSafety first for US forwarders
The full impact of new safety regulations for trucking in the US introduced by the Department of Transport’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) are still being assessed, but there are clear signs from leading carriers that demonstrating high results is likely to work to their advantage in tenders with ...
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FeatureGM to ship China made CKDs to India
GM’s joint venture with Chinese OEM SAIC will begin shipping microvan CKD kits for assembly in India from next year. SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile (SGMW) will produce the kits at its facility in Liuzhou for assembly at two plants in India: the Halol facility near Baroda and the Talegaon plant near Pune. ...
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FeatureKia hits 1m delivery milestone in US
Kia Motors has delivered its one millionth vehicle to the US through the West Coast port of Tacoma, Washington state. The 2011 Optima Hybrid rolled off a K-Line vessel at the port's Blair Terminal earlier this month. It was manufactured at the carmaker’s Hwasung plant in South Korea. The vehicle ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Sean Liang is the new director of Global Purchasing and Supply Chain for GM China replacing Michael Filazzola, who has moved to a new position as executive director of GPSC for GM Holden in Australia, the position previously occupied by Liang. Liang will be responsible for the Purchasing organisation’s business ...
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FeatureBMW leads imports to Korea
Korea imported 51,664 newly-registered vehicles in the first half of 2011 according to the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association (KAIDA), a 23% increase on the same period in 2010. Sales of imported vehicles in the country were led by BMW and Mercedes, and the top region of imports was ...
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FeatureGlobal round up
BLG sign joint venture in ChinaGermany’s BLG Logistics is reported to have signed a 50:50 joint venture agreement with Beijing-based Cinko Supply Chain Management for Chinese vehicle exports as well as imports of foreign cars to China. Called BLG Cinko Autotec and based in Tianjin, the new venture will begin ...