Volkswagen

Monday, May 17, 2021

Changing the supply chain doesn’t mean just one thing

The evolving automotive supply chain — and it is evolving, perhaps more than casual observers are aware — is forcing companies to rethink best practices when it comes to getting cars out of the factory and into customer hands. Some are focusing on making their supply chains more independent while others are trying to find […]

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Thursday, May 6, 2021

The time has come to abandon the just-in-time model

Next week on the Transmission podcast and FreightWavesTV show, I’ll be speaking with Dionis Teshler, the CTO and co-founder of GuardKnox. There are two things we recommend doing in preparation for that discussion. First, finish reading this email, in which we will take a look at the company blog post Teshler recently wrote about a […]

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, December 20, 2020

Borderlands: Three new multimodal hubs for Texas

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Three new intermodal hubs signed for the Texas Gulf Coast; jury awards $500,000 for damage from truck accident; NTG promotes Drew Herpich to chief commercial officer; and Volkswagen links U.S.-Mexico factories through cloud services.

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Noi Mahoney Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Record number of Mexican-made vehicles cross borders to be sold in North American, Asian markets

Mexican factories exported a record-breaking 1.74 million vehicles worldwide during the first six months of 2019.  The majority of those vehicles – 1.37 million – were shipped north across the border to the United States, according to data recently released by Mexico’s Asociacion Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA).  “The United States remains, without a […]

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