cyprusgrump wrote:JAGUAR LAND ROVER CONTINUES INVESTING AT FULL SPEEDFar from what the gloomsters proffer, the UK’s car industry looks like it’s shifting into top gear as Britain speeds towards the Brexit finishing line; with the announcement by Jaguar Land Rover of a new three million-square-foot distribution centre in Leicestershire, supplying to 80 markets worldwide. Fueling confidence in global Britain…
The new campus is expecting to create a sizable number of new jobs in the area and shows Jaguar Land Rover plan on having a stake in Britain’s sizable car industry for many more years to come. Remainers must be quite exhausted and tired of making wrong predictions, Guido doesn’t think they’ll give us a brake any time soon…
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news ... ts-3259340this is not a Brexit related project it;s an old project scheduled for 2023. More over it's a PARTS distribution center centralizing other existing sites to reduce costs.
Stop reading Guido charlatan
If you want to learn the truth about Jaguar Land Rover read these:
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/indu ... s-partnersThe troubles snowballed, leading chief executive Ralf Speth to announce a £3.6bn annual loss for 2018/19. A wide-reaching cost-cutting programme was launched soon after.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new- ... ter-brexitJaguar Land Rover is again planning a temporary shutdown of its main UK production plants for a week after Britain’s planned departure from the European Union on 31 October.
................
JLR is unable to reopen its sites at short notice if there's another delay to Brexit, as component ordering from suppliers requires a long lead time. JLR was forced to close its sites in April, when Brexit was originally scheduled to happen. Mini, Vauxhall, and Honda, among others, also closed during April.
The FT claims the company imports around 20 million parts into the UK per day, meaning stockpiling isn’t realistic. “We cannot switch off and on again” said Speth.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/opinion/motor ... ing-brexit“I have 20-25 million car parts a day that need to be moved through our factories. I need them all just-in-time to be able to build a car. If I miss a part, the car isn’t built. There is no car.
“If there is a delay at the ports of one minute, two minutes, 10 minutes, or whatever - what happens? There’s talk of setting up warehouses to store these parts. Where am I going to store 20 million parts a day?
.....
“You need logistics on top of that also. You need special deliveries to transport it. No suppliers are going to be able to support that. You’ll need new warehouses, new IT systems. It’s not possible on capital, IT or infrastructure.
“I’ve already hired 40 extra people for admin. They’re all administrators. Take the costs of these people: would they not be better creating products for the future, to make a stronger UK plc, rather than admin and filling in forms?”