All south & central america articles – Page 29
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FeatureGermany ranks no.1 for logistics
Germany topped the rankings of 155 countries rated in the World Bank’s ‘Logistics Performance Index’ (LPI), a report published this week based on more than 5,000 individual country assessments made by around 1,000 international freight forwarders. (Read the full report here info.worldbank.org/etools/tradesurvey/Mode1a.asp) The report highlights a range of categories of ...
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FeatureEuropean car ports are waiting on an Asian dream
China’s big paper plansAssessing the European landing pointKia went to a smaller port, and so could othersChina and India have raced ahead in domestic car sales, but logistics providers and port operators in Europe are wondering when, and if, they will arrive on local shores in any substantial way. Malcolm ...
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FeatureDesigning a group logistics strategy for SAIC
A family of logistical differencesLooking abroad, cautiouslyGetting stronger at homeA tale of two AnjisThe sprawling Chinese conglomerate is growing quickly across its indigenous brands and joint venture operations, which include truckmaker subsidiaries and an in-house logistics company, Anji Automotive Logistics. Namrita Chow takes a look inside the group to see ...
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FeatureTNT targets South America
TNT is shifting gears to accelerate in the automotive aftermarket and emergency logistics sector, with particular expansion in the booming South American regionA sizeable spare parts and emergency freight businessBolstering BrazilAdvancing in ArgentinaAlthough TNT, which is best known for its €11-billion ($16.5m) revenue mail and express delivery business, sold its ...
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FeatureLogistics is holding back South Africa’s industry
With sales and exports hit hard, South Africa’s seven OEMs are scrambling to revamp their production to become more efficient, and pushing for the country’s rail and port operator to smarten up. If that doesn’t happen, carmakers may go elsewhereA lot going on at the bottom of the worldAll for ...
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FeatureChina builds a road inside itself
As the largest and still the fastest growing car market in the world, carmakers in China are hoping to develop supply chains in its vast interior and western regions, with the government investing billionsLow visibilityA crowded market starts to spill inlandGo west, says the governmentRegulation and trade disputesFiat’s Jack Cheng ...
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FeatureGiving logistics in India a new name
Mahindra & Mahindra’s chief operating officer, Rajesh Jejuriker (pictured right), believes logistics and ‘demand’ chain management have improved the carmaker’s customer satisfaction ratings. Christopher Ludwig speaks to him and head of supply chain, SK Krishnan (pictured left), about M&M’s groundbreaking order-to-delivery system.Logistics ranks high in the management chainThe production and ...
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FeatureGlobal outlook: fixing the dam for 2010
Automotive logistics companies were breathing easier at the end of 2009. Earlier, global light vehicle sales were projected to drop 14% to around 58m units. Production, which corresponds closely with the revenue for 3PLs, had been predicted below 50m.But incentives, a rebound in Asia, and gradual recovery have led forecasters ...
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FeatureIn Profile: Ford's Matthias Schulz
Matthias Schulz’s career with Ford began just two days after he received his Masters degree in 1987. His path toward leading Ford’s logistics in Europe has a somewhat unexpected origin; he is a mathematics expert, with studies in areas similar to that of Stephen Hawkins.He started at Ford as an ...
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FeatureHonda's Performance Excellence winners
American Honda has announced the winners of its 2009 Performance Excellence programme – the carmaker’s logistics operations performance recognition awards. The winners are CSX, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) and Selland Auto Transport. Logistic vendors in each category are evaluated monthly on their performance in logistics quality, speed and vehicle ...
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FeatureLogistics savings sway C-Class move
Daimler is planning to shift production of the next-generation Mercedes C-Class for the US market to its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama from Sindelfingen in Germany in 2014. At the same time it will move C-Class production for the European market from Sindelfingen to Bremen. In return, SL production will move ...
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FeatureTVS Logistics buys Multipart Holding
TVS Logistics, part of TVS group, one of the largest automotive components manufacturers in India, has acquired supply chain company Multipart Holding, one of the UK’s top three aftermarket logistics companies. TVS has said it will invest more than RS 125 crore ($30m) in Multipart over the next 18 months ...
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FeatureSupply chain strategy behind Chery plant in Dalian
Logistics cost and strategy considerations are behind Chery Auto’s decision to build a new plant at the port city of Dalian in northeast China. The $688m plant will start manufacturing for both the domestic and overseas markets from June 2011, with an annual production capacity of 200,000 vehicles. “Building a ...
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GMSA and UTi awarded for Euro Express
General Motors South Africa (GMSA) and integrated logistics provider UTi have won the Platinum Award at the annual Logistics Achiever Awards ceremony recently held in Johannesburg. The prize was awarded in recognition of their integrated supply chain joint venture Euro Express. According to Evan Dold, GMSA vice president of global ...
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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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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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FeatureHonda Indiana exports Civics to wider markets
Honda’s Greensburg plant in Indiana has shipped its first units of the Civic sedan to Mexico as part of a wider export strategy that also includes markets in Latin America as well as the Caribbean and US territories in Puerto Rico, Guam and Saipan. The first 270 units will arrive ...
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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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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 ...