Nissan Motors Shipping Cars
30 Jun 2009 7:35 PM  by Rameshwar in Indian Car Market ,

The Nissan Motor India's factory , being set up at Oragadam near Chennai in Tamil Nadu , is expected to start production in early 2010 , while exports , mainly to Europe , are scheduled for late that year.

Nissan said that work on the  Oragadam project , coming up on 640-acres , was apace and progressing according to schedule , though Renault had ‘suspended’ , at least for now , its plan to have a production line 
in the upcoming facility.Renault was very much part of the Renault Nissan Automotive India , the promoter of the Oragadam project.The Oragadam venture would have flexibility to make products on three platforms — A segment cars , B segment products and light commercial vehicles.India would form an important 
constituent of the global sourcing strategy of Nissan.The company had drawn up a 350 billion yen global investment plan. Nissan would launch nine models in India by 2012 , including five India-made models. At the moment , it had only two models. In the current year , it would launch 370Z , X-Trail and Teana in India.

Norwegian shipping company Hoegh Autoliners will transport the Nissan Pixo cars from India next month. These will be shipped from the Mundra port in Gujarat. The company is in talks with Tata Motors , Mahindra & Mahindra , Ford and Renault to ship their vehicles.

In October , Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd , had signed an agreement with Union government-owned Ennore Port Ltd near Chennai to export through it automobiles manufactured at the Oragadam plant.Japanese transporter Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd has won a contract for moving cars for export from a new Nissan Motor Co. Ltd plant.
This contract might lead to ocean shipping in the future.

Mitsui OSK Lines set up MOL Auto Logistics (India) Pvt. Ltd , a wholly owned auto logistics unit , to tap the domestic auto market and car exports. It will provide inland transportation services by car trailers , as well as export related port services for finished cars. In May , NYK Line (India) Ltd , the India unit of Nippon 
Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha Ltd , Japan’s biggest shipping firm by fleet size and revenues , entered into a 50:50 joint Venture with state-owned Container Corp. of India Ltd to transport automobiles over rail.

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