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FeatureWWL supports China service with inland distribution
Following last week’s announcement that WWL is providing inland transport services with local providers for Nissan distribution in India (read more here), the company is also supporting inland movements for increased deliveries on its China Express service. Last week WWL said that dedicated ro-ro sailings on the service between Japan, ...
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FeatureMOL and Sical to start Chennai operations
India's Sical Logistics has completed the creation of a joint venture with Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) to operate an automotive management yard at the Port of Ennore near Chennai, India. Following a MoU signed in August, the deal was finalised this week and operations are now due to commence ...
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FeatureGefco helps PSA target German market
Gefco’s German division has opened a new logistics facility in Kelheim, Lower Bavaria, to shorten lead times for the delivery of Peugeot and Citroën vehicles to dealerships in the region. It is the 16th German location for the global Gefco network and the facility is planned to handle 14,000 Peugeot ...
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FeatureLogistics is holding South Africa back
An inefficient supply chain, high logistics and port handling costs could cause carmakers in South Africa to lose future production volumes to global competitors in Asia, South America and even the EU, according to executives at last week’s South African Automotive Week in Port Elizabeth. Total costs for South Africa’s ...
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FeatureA climate of change at Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover is moving to the next stage of its inbound logistics realignment with DHL Supply Chain and the much-needed cost savings of the collaboration look likely to benefit the UK automotive industry more widely. Since April, when it took over the full inbound contract for JLR and implemented ...
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FeatureAre supplier parks the answer for South Africa?
As the South African automotive industry has struggled with a chronically underdeveloped local supplier base, leading to higher logistics cost and poorer manufacturing productivity, both industry and government in the country are making efforts to improve the supply chain’s efficiencies by developing supplier parks and logistics centres based near plants ...
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FeatureWWL lands distribution deal with Nissan in India
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (India) has been awarded a contract to provide yard management services and domestic distribution of Nissan vehicles to dealers in India. It is the first such contract the company has secured in the country and now means the India division will provide a full range of factory-to-dealer ...
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FeatureThyssenKrupp sells supply chain division to Wisag
As part of wide-ranging structural changes at ThyssenKrupp, the company has sold its industrial service division to German facility management company Wisag for €100m.ThyssenKrupp spokesman Stefan Ettwig said: “We’re confident that, in the form of Wisag as a pure facility management company, we have found a reliable partner for ThyssenKrupp ...
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FeatureWorld-ranked K+N gets BMW contract in Japan
Kuehne + Nagel has secured a three-year contract with BMW for the management of its spare parts distribution centre in Japan. From the 18,000m2 centre, located near Narita and its international airport (60km east of Tokyo), Kuehne + Nagel will provide a range of services including receiving, inventory control, picking ...
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FeatureWhat will Pepy's plan mean for LSPs?
The news that the French government is investing over €7 billion to increase the amount of freight moved by rail in the country, with SNCF contributing €1 billion of its own funds, has brought with it questions related to further cost and quality for carmakers and LSPs. It is the ...
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FeatureMagna chooses K+N for inbound to Russia
Magna International’s vehicle exteriors division has chosen Kuehne + Nagel to handle the inbound logistics feed to its production site in Kaluga, Russia to support the supply of components for Volkswagen. Magna Exteriors & Interiors is currently producing front end cooling modules on Tiguan and Octavia models for VW’s Kaluga ...
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FeatureStay close on the bumpy road ahead
Flexibility in the supply chain remains the most important challenge for OEMs and LSPs according to surveys held at last week’s Automotive Logistics Global conference in Dearborn, and crucial to maintaining that flexibility was the ability to share information and remain innovative, something that needs improve and quickly. The surveys ...
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BLG and ViDi promise growth for Ukraine
BLG Logistics has strengthened its links to the Ukrainian and wider Eastern European automotive markets with the signing of a new joint venture contract with ViDi Group. Called BLG ViDi Logistics, the company is investing a total of €28.6m in a logistics terminal in Kalinovka near Kiev, with initial ...
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FeatureGM revises pay plan for suppliers
From 1 November this year GM will start paying its parts and logistics service providers every week rather than every 47 days in a move to improve the company’s cash flow and better support struggling suppliers. Many suppliers awaiting payment have been forced to rely on credit lines to cover ...
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FeatureNYK Logistics to continue supply contract at Crewe
Volkswagen Logistics has extended its contract with NYK Logistics for inbound delivery of components to the Bentley Motors’ manufacturing facility in Crewe, UK. NYK Logistics is responsible for the delivery of around 6,000 different parts into the plant from 150 UK-based suppliers and a further 460 throughout Europe. Bentley parts ...
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FeatureCarmakers don't want the inventory
The historically low finished vehicle inventory levels in North America are here to stay, according to several carmakers speaking on day one of the 10th Automotive Logistics Global conference in Detroit this week. Keynote speaker Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s group vice president, global manufacturing and labour affairs (pictured), admitting that the ...
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FeatureRolf sells distribution share to Mitsubishi Corp
Russian vehicle distributor Rolf has said it may not be able to continue trading unless a new transaction agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation gets the go ahead at the end of October. In one of three separate but mutually dependent transactions, Rolf, which is Mitsubishi Motor’s largest distributor, will sell 40% ...
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FeatureCautious reaction to scrappage extension in UK
Monday’s announcement by the UK’s business secretary Lord Mandelson that the UK scrappage scheme would be extended for a further 100,000 vehicles has been cautiously welcomed by carmakers around the country who were keen to stress that any lift was very much part of a wider European set of initiatives. ...
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Executives on the move
Ceva Logistics has appointed Caio Najm (pictured) as general director in Brazil, replacing Giuseppe De Vincenzo, who leaves Ceva Brazil after six years to pursue a new role with Ceva outside the country. Najm has more than 25 years of experience, having worked in companies including Compañia Transportadora, Coml. Translor ...
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FeatureRenault uses Frankfurt to award suppliers
Renault used the Frankfurt Motor Show to announce the winners of its Supplier Quality Awards for 2008 and they included Austria’s Lagermax AED, which received a global award for “its proactive approach to optimising logistics flows”. AED, or Alltime Express Distribution, was developed by Lagermax to cater for the delivery ...