Tag: Worldwide

Intermodal keeps up with the flow

Posted by | Oct 1, 2001 | |

Automotive Logistics

Huge flows of containerised automotive components are now being shipped around Europe by rail, which is now winning its fair share of traffic as competition between service providers grows.
Joe Pickers, general manager UK of Spanish rail operator Transfesa, emphasises the contribution that rail can make to the supply chain. The operator runs between six and 12 blocktrains a week, between Ford’s production plants in Dagenham, east London and Valencia.

“Each train carries 44 13.6 metre swapbodies, ” he says.

“It would be difficult to arrange the movement of such a large volume of freight by road at any one time.”

Transit time is between 36 and 48 hours, and Pickers says the service is extremely competitive in both speed and price, compared with road.

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Cost-efficiency push fuels consolidation

Posted by | Oct 1, 2001 | |

Automotive Logistics

Automotive manufacturing is concentrating on the development of single-site sourcing and transnational production, requiring a wider range of capabilities from logistics contractors, and investment, ” said Tibbett & Britten chairman and CEO John Harvey, while announcing the group’s withdrawal from the sector, back in May, with the sale of its £150m (€239m) turnover Axial automotive logistics subsidiary to AutoLogic.
According to Harvey, the group has grown so much that “the competition for financial and management resources has made it increasingly difficult to give Axial the focus necessary to develop the business”.

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Settlement with FAA gives airline 180 days to resolve problems; $1 million in fines due

Posted by | Sep 29, 2001 | |

Emery Worldwide and the Federal Aviation Administration have signed an agreement that could enable the carrier to resume flying its own aircraft by next March. Emery suspended its flight operations voluntarily on Aug. 13 after the FAA threatened to revoke its operating license due to numerous safety violations. Since then the carrier has been using chartered aircraft. Under the new 180-day agreement, Emery and the FAA agreed to work on an expedited basis to try to resolve issues in 31 specific categories. That agreement could then be extended for another 60 days, although the FAA reserves the right to remove Emery’s operating authority

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Lufthansa Cargo, SAS Cargo and Singapore Airlines Cargo will offer their customers harmonized express services that will be operating under the brand name

Posted by | Sep 27, 2001 | |

The three partners laid the foundation stone for their alliance on April 26, 2000 which, until now, has been known as “New Global Cargo”. Lufthansa Cargo is the largest freight carrier in the world and Singapore Airlines Cargo the third largest. Both airlines have global networks. SAS Cargo has a strong presence in Scandinavia and a closely meshed network.

Together, the alliance opens up new markets to shippers, particularly in Asia, Scandinavia, Australia, North America and Northern Europe. The three partners operate a network of 493 destinations worldwide in 103 countries on five continents. The alliance has access to a total of 31 freight-only aircraft and the belly capacities of 612 passenger aircraft, many of which are wide-body aircraft.

The partners say they have harmonized their premium express services and agreed on the relevant IT support as well as common standards and handling processes.

In future, all three express services will be classed as “time definite” services with clearly defined latest acceptance times and time of availability. With this move the carriers say they are further integrating their products into modern supply chain management processes. For the convenience of shippers, the alliance says all express shipments of up to 100 kilograms will be automatically confirmed, with the performance guaranteed for each product across the alliance network.

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