News – Page 358
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FeatureUnion Pacific encourages used cars on to rail
Union Pacific Railroad has rebranded its Insight Network Transportation subsidiary and website in an attempt to attract more cross-country used car freight onto its trains. With the new name ShipCarsNow, the company plans to establish a network of dealerships served by an intermodal rail and road service and change the ...
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FeatureLogistics challenges for Toyota in Texas
Following Toyota’s decision to stop production at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Freemont, California from next March, the carmaker is facing logistics challenges at its San Antonio plant in Texas where Tacoma production will transfer for production next year. The company is investing around $100m to upgrade ...
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FeatureExecutives on the move
Frank Müller (pictured) has replaced Sven Grossmann as Director Quality Management for BLG Automobile Logistics. Müller has been with BLG Logistics for nine years across a number of roles gaining a good knowledge of the requirements and specific processes in the automobile industry.Before he started working for BLG Logistics he ...
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FeatureRo-ro deliveries for Hoegh and Grimaldi
Höegh Autoliners has delivered over 1,500 Nissan vehicles through the Port of Gdansk on board the Atlantic Spirit. The vessel delivered the vehicles from South Korea and it formed the largest delivery of cars at the port this year. The majority of the vehicles are for delivery to the Russian ...
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FeatureLogistics nightmare for US dealers
Many dealer lots were depleted across the US yesterday as the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ scheme finished a day later than it was originally due to end. A sign of good business for carmakers and dealers, but many who saw the CARS website crash on the final day jeopardising their remaining ...
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FeatureGefco integrates South America service for PSA
Following the announcement that Gefco Brazil is opening a new 6,200m2 logistics hub in Guarulhos, northeast São Paulo to consolidate multi-modal services for PSA Peugeot Citroën, the company’s Director of Transport Logistic Automotive, André Bortolotto (pictured), has told Automotive Logistics this week how the facility will provide a more rapid ...
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Ford announces Executive Director for Global MP&L
As Ford’s Frederiek Toney prepares to take up his new role as Vice President of Ford Customer Service Division next Tuesday (read more here), the company announced today that Steve Harley (pictured) will fill the position of Executive Director, Global Material Planning and Logistics (MP&L) on the same day. Harley ...
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Volvo Logistics embraces biodiesel initiative
Volvo Logistics is participating in a carbon-conscious joint venture with DHL, IKEA, H&M and Preem that has led to the opening of the first petrol station in western Sweden selling environmentally-adapted fuel. The station is based at Skandiahemnen port in Gothenburg, close to Volvo’s plants and the trans-shipment terminal in ...
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FeatureBMW keeps its finger on the pulse
As BMW nears completion of a new assembly hall that is part of a $750m expansion of the Spartanburg, South Carolina plant, the full extent of the logistics innovation that will underpin manufacturing of the BMW X3 there is becoming clear. Based on the ‘finger’ layout first seen at BMW’s ...
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FeatureIndian BPO enters auto warehousing sector
Aparna BPO Services, a logistics BPO (business process outsourcing) provider, has opened an automotive parts warehouse to support suppliers in and around Pune, India. The warehouse, which provides logistics support to companies including Tata Bearings, SKF Bearings and NRB Bearings, is based in Chimbli village near Pune and has a ...
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FeatureScrappage effect means no summer holiday for Hyundai
The UK’s scrappage scheme has led to the first rise in new car sales in country for 15 months, with more than one in five of the cars registered in July bought under the incentive. New car sales rose 2.4% in July and the rush for new registration models in ...
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FeatureLet the train take the strain
The last shipment of Hitachi high-speed passenger trains reached the Port of Southampton in the UK this week, bringing to a close a four-year project which saw 29 full trains imported from Hitachi’s plant in Kasado, Japan, for use by UK rail company Southeastern. Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), acting as ...
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FeatureGM hits new markets with Chinese-made minivans
Under a new agreement with its Chinese partner, Liuzhou Wuling Automotive, GM has begun exports of minivans from the country to markets in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The first shipment of 150 vehicles left Guangzhou for Egypt last Thursday aboard NYK’s Zeus Leader and are due to ...
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FeatureLogwin strengthens logistics support for BMW
Logwin has increased its support for BMW in Germany with the deployment of its Parts Direct aftermarket service in Berlin and the surrounding area for the same-day delivery of parts to dealers. It has also enhanced its provision of warehouse and transhipment services in Hamburg and Cologne for the storage ...
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FeatureMenlo to handle US Midwest export centre for Caterpillar
Menlo Worldwide Logistics, the global logistics subsidiary of Con-way, has opened a dedicated Midwest-area export logistics centre in Joliet, Illinois, which is supporting export activity for commercial vehicle and engine maker Caterpillar. Menlo will provide export consolidation services including receiving, export packaging and loading/shipping over 18,500m2 of the 32,500m2 building, ...
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FeatureSyncron provides best laid plans for ELIT in Europe
Czech automotive parts distributor ELIT has selected Syncron’s Supply Chain Planner solution to improve its inventory management capabilities for Central and Eastern European markets. Syncron is a global supply chain software provider with customers in the automotive and commercial vehicles sectors including Volvo, JCB, Mazda, Alfa Laval, Scania, Renault and ...
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FeatureA classic move for Mazda
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has delivered a shipment of Mazda vehicles to the European Port of Antwerp, including 14 models of the classic Cosmo 110 Sport. The Cosmos, which were added to 4,500 vehicles delivered to the port aboard the ro-ro vessel MV Torrens, are featuring in this week’s international Cosmo ...
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FeatureUS 3PLs could see light in 2010
While 2009 will be the first year since at least 1996 that the US third-party logistics (3PL) market will contract, 2010 could signal a fairly strong return to growth, according to a report, “Who’s Who in Logistics and Supply Chain Management”, by Armstrong & Associates, a US-based consultancy. In ...
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FeatureCon-way gives more for less with Global LTL
Con-way Freight has launched a global less-than-truckload (LTL) service in collaboration with other providers, including APL Logistics and TNT, in the form of an online portfolio of the company’s LTL services. For an automotive industry still faced with overcapacity and looking for greater efficiency it means “state-of-the-art online tools and ...
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FeatureWhen will logistics start tweeting?
If logistics, as the adage goes, is more about the flow of information than the flow of materials, then the ever-more popular spread of social media tools could be just the right equipment for 21st century supply chain management. Twitter, with its up-to-the-next second updates and its ability to build ...