BMW AG’s rechargeable i8 sports car is entering a soon-to-be-crowded field of supercars with a hint of green. While they tap into Tesla Motors Inc.’s popularity, they’re all for different buyers.
BMW AG’s rechargeable i8 sports car is entering a soon-to-be-crowded field of supercars with a hint of green. While they tap into Tesla Motors Inc.’s popularity, they’re all for different buyers.
The ports of Brunswick and Savannah, Georgia are the closest to the state capital, Atlanta, the New York City of the south, and are also ideally located to service the major metropolitan areas of Birmingham, Alabama, Charlotte, North Carolina and Tennessee’s Memphis and Nashville.
Toyota Logistics Services (TLS) manages and coordinates all the Toyota, Lexus and Scion finished vehicle movements into and from North America. Vehicles are imported from Japan through the west coast ports of Portland, Oregon and Benicia and Long Beach, California. On the east coast, Jacksonville, Florida and Newark, New Jersey are destination ports and Lazaro […]
Working with suppliers to encourage lean concepts is a pre-requisite for GM’s new purchasing head, Grace Lieblein, reports Sam Ogle.
With the “new norm†cost of diesel at $4 per gallon, fleets should be looking at every possible opportunity to lower fuel consumption. Like no other time in the trucking industry, every drop counts. A tractor-trailer combo or driver able to improve fuel economy by a mile per gallon gained is huge in savings terms. […]
Daimler has a new man in charge of global logistics with the appointment of Heiko Gaiser (pictured), who has replaced Dr Holger Scherr as head of worldwide transport logistics, passenger cars, trucks vans and buses.
Toyota’s North American Logistics Control division is taking a more centralised approach to managing its inbound logistics network in an effort to influence the carmaker’s purchasing decisions
Four years after Renault Nissan created Alliance Logistics Europe to combine the logistics management and operations of the two brands, the group is making major breakthroughs in combining network flows.
Following table discussions at the Automotive Logistics Russia conference held in Moscow in June this year, Renault Nissan, together with a number of OEMs and logistics providers, have revealed that they are planning to set up a new automotive logistics interest group for manufacturers and providers operating in the country.