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GEFCO enters Algeria

Automotive logistics company GEFCO Group, is setting up a subsidiary in Algeria. It will manage manages the distribution of new vehicles to dealers for PSA Peugeot Citroën, as well as flows of containerised cargo for its industrial clients from Algeria to the Mediterranean and China. The Algerian automotive sector, ranked number two in Africa, is growing rapidly with sales of new vehicles reaching 423,000 units in 2013, up 20.6% compared ... [+]

Gefco opens in Frankfurt

Freight forwarder GEFCO is investing in a new air cargo hub at Frankfurt. GEFCO is offering value added services such as customs clearance as well as solutions which are adapted to its clients from various industries, including automotive, manufacturing, health and FMCG. [+]

Gefco moves flat pack tractors

Gefco is shipping 'flat pack' tractors from China to the UK for Siromer. Tractors are manufactured and assembled in China, disassembled for transportation and reassembled in the UK to provide a cost effective route into Europe. Gefco’s solution includes in-house track and trace systems.   [+]

Gefco to move Range Rovers

GEFCO has won a new contract with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) for the transportation of new Range Rovers between the UK production plants, storage compounds and ports of exit. The logistics specialist will move new Range Rovers and has invested in a fleet of new transporters, tailored to JLR’s transportation ... [+]

Gefco brings US bikes to Britain

GEFCO UK is providing new US sports motorcycle manufacturer Erik Buell Racing transportation for its crated motorcycles from its European Distribution Centre in the Netherlands to the UK, via GEFCO's UK hub depot in Baginton, Coventry to the distribution to dealers in the UK, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands.   [+]

Multimodal mung beans

Chinese-grown mung beans have been exercising the folk at Gefco UK, who have provided a truly multimodal solution for Bakkavor Group. The forwarder is moving nearly 150 tonnes of the delicate product from Dalian in Eastern China to Lincolnshire in the UK, where they will be used in the production ... [+]

Easy rider

GEFCO UK moved 18 motorcycles, dating from the 1920s and 1930s, from Coventry Transport Museum to the recent Motorcycle Live event at Birmingham NEC. The bikes were collected and returned in specially designed cradles. The museum's curator of vehicles, Chris van Schaardenburgh, said: “Thanks to all those involved at GEFCO, we ... [+]

Made to measure tile shipping

GEFCO has developed a made-to-measure international transport strategy for Spanish tile-maker Mosaic del Sur. The forwarder manages all supplies from Morocco and export shipping to Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East with direct tracking through dedicated online portals. [+]

Gefco opens in Dubai

Logistics specialist GEFCO has set up a new subsidiary, GEFCO Middle East Fze, in Dubai's Jebel Ali free zone. It has identified the location as one of the strongest-growing markets with the automotive sector, in which Gefco has its roots, growing by 20% a year, along with oil and gas. As ... [+]

Gefco signs giant GM deal

French owned automotive logistics specialists GEFCO group is claiming one of the biggest automotive logistics contracts in European history with US carmaker General Motors. The contract will last seven years and comes into effect at the start of 2013. The contract covers inbound and outbound logistics (excluding the final distribution ... [+]

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