All Automotive Supply Chains Articles – Page 5

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    ABC in top gear for Maserati Gran Turismo charter

    2017-11-08T16:45:03Z

    AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has delivered twenty-eight new Maserati Gran Turismo vehicles on a Boeing 747 freighter.The charter flight from Milan to Tokyo on behalf of Agility Logistics was operated from the largest airport in Milan, Malpensa, to Narita Airport with a stop at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport.The Maserati cars were handled ...

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    Air Partner in time-critical automotive flight

    2017-08-31T08:43:05Z

    Air Partner recently carried out a time critical lift of 3,044kg of spare car parts to Stockholm via two separate German airports.The first request from the client was for the urgent transportation of 1,676kg of cargo to be transported from central Germany to Stockholm."The client chose the more cost-effective option, ...

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    IAG Cargo looks to automotive for new Nashville operation

    2017-08-15T10:22:31Z

    IAG Cargo will begin offering services to and from Nashville, Tennessee, from May next year as it looks to capitalise on the city's automotive sector.The new passenger service will fly five-times-a-week between the US hub and Heathrow in the UK utilising a Boeing 747-8, which offers a payload of 15 ...

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    time:matters expands flight network to Birmingham and Dublin

    2017-07-20T13:03:13Z

    Time-critical logistics provider time:matters has expanded its flight network for spare parts logistics from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden in southern Germany to Birmingham and Dublin on weekdays.The new routes extend the current network to the UK and Ireland, which have been served by flights from Frankfurt and Maastricht since 2011.The Lufthansa subsidiary confirmed ...

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    Volga-Dnepr in the fast lane for Nippon Express' urgent automotive machinery

    2017-07-12T10:07:27Z

    Volga-Dnepr Airlines' load planners responded to an urgent request from Nippon Express to transport 197 tonnes of sensitive automotive machinery from Japan to the US.The airline’s Hanoi-based load planning experts were on hand to assess quickly the cargo and prepare the most efficient plan for its delivery from Toyko to ...

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    Turkish Cargo launches freighter flights to Paris

    2017-06-21T15:27:51Z

    Turkish Cargo has launched weekly scheduled Airbus A310 freighter flight between Istanbul and French hub Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport. The flight schedule may be revised, based on permits.Automobile, aircraft and aircraft engines, as well as pharmaceutical products and plastic raw materials are the top-ranking items in the exports from ...

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    Evolution Time Critical launches service for large scale projects

    2017-06-17T10:39:12Z

    Evolution Time Critical has launched its Critical Projects service, focused on the movement of large scale resources such as vehicle tooling or live production for the automotive and other industry sectors.The UK-based emergency logistics specialist said that Critical Projects provides capability for the “strategic shift” of automotive production with “reduced ...

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    time:matters maintains the pace

    2017-06-17T10:38:38Z

    time:matters, the Neu-Isenburg, Germany-headquartered specialist in time-critical logistics, has revealed that it enjoyed a 9% year on year increase in revenue in 2016.It made revenue of just under €70m.In so doing, the company said that it had “maintained its positive overall performance of recent years and exceeded its sales growth ...

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    From rustbelt to high-tech revival

    2017-06-17T10:38:10Z

    SEKO Logistics is taking advantage of the re-shoring of manufacturing in the US by expanding two of its locations in the north-east of the country.In Syracuse, New York state, it has moved from its former 12,000sq ft facility into a new warehouse ten times the size. The new location incorporates ...

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    GEFCO rides strong automotive demand

    2017-06-17T10:36:47Z

    European logistics services provider GEFCO saw its turnover increase by 1.3% year on year in 2016, to €4.2bn.The good performance of the European car market was one major factor in the company’s positive results. GEFCO signed new agreements with Renault Nissan, VWG Audi. Toyota, BMW and Toyota last year as ...

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    VIDEO: Emirates SkyCargo transports UAE designed sports car

    2017-06-17T10:36:21Z

    Emirates SkyCargo has transported the first car designed and built entirely in the UAE to France where it will be exhibited during the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race.Emirates SkyCargo worked with forwarder Prodex worldwide to transport the car, named Design-1, from Dubai to Lyon.The sports car designed and built ...

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    EAS in top gear for emergency auto spares charter

    2017-06-17T10:35:39Z

    EAS International a member of the X2 Critical forwarder alliance has organised an Airbus A310 freighter full charter flight to transport automotive parts from Romania to Turkey.Marco Muggianu, development director for EAS (the alliance member responsible for France and Romania) said: “The operation was very difficult due to the very ...