BMW North America has outsourced the management of its parts distribution centre in Nazareth, Pennsylvania and chosen logistics and transport provider Penske Logistics for the job. The facility was previously managed in-house by BMW.
BMW North America has outsourced the management of its parts distribution centre in Nazareth, Pennsylvania and chosen logistics and transport provider Penske Logistics for the job. The facility was previously managed in-house by BMW.
The Russian Ministry of Industry and Commerce is proposing to extend the country’s recycling charge for imported vehicles to include Belarus and Kazakhstan, which joined a Customs Union with the Russian Federation in 2010. If the bill proposing the tax is passed it will become effective from the beginning of July this year.
Renault-Nissan has announced it will produce the next generation Nissan Micra at its Renault Flins plant in France. Production will begin in 2016 with an estimated annual output of 82,000 vehicles. The vehicle is currently produced at the Renault Nissan Alliance plant in Orangadam, near Chennai, in southern India.
Domestic freight trends below-seasonal into April, consistent with March-end. Easter timing and cold spring weather have tempered retail trends, while industrial trends have moderated, creating a softer-than-expected start to 2Q13 demand; though some carriers remain optimistic that delayed retail demand will support volumes in May/June.
Transportation stakeholder groups, including American Trucking Associations, reacted positively to President Obama’s announcement Monday that he has picked Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx to be the next transportation secretary.
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has been nominated to be the next Secretary of Transportation, replacing outgoing Secretary Ray LaHood. LaHood announced he would not be staying on in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet in January. LaHood was the only Republican in the president’s Cabinet in Obama’s first term.
Faurecia has approved a new contract with DHL Supply Chain as the demand for sequenced deliveries increases at the Jaguar Land Rover advanced manufacturing plant in Solihull. As the JLR plant moved to 24-hour production earlier this year the logistics between Range Rover and the tier 1 supplier’s manufacturing plant in Fradley, Staffordshire had to improve. […]
Wilson has been appointed general manager of vehicle logistics and will replace Joerg Schnackenberg who is returning to Wolfsburg, Germany at the end of June, in the role of project manager in the Regions Planning Department at Group Logistics.
The combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technology with some of the world’s largest shale gas and oil reserves has put the United States on track to become a top energy producer. U.S. natural gas capacity is expected to expand 23 percent by 2023.