VW California unit to aid growth of electric vehicles
The Volkswagen Group Verification Center in California has completed an expansion task in which the facility will focus more on verifying and analyzing the diversity of electric vehicles.
The site, which will be called Oxnard Engineering Campus, is one of the Volkswagen Group’s brands and also operates in the powertrain engineering facilities that develop the product, government compliance and emissions testing.
“The next few years will be transformers for the Volkswagen Group as we launched our first long-range battery electric vehicles,” said Johan de Nysschen, the leading chief operating officer of the Volkswagen Group of America. “The campus has been absolutely modernized to increase the development, design and testing of the products that will be sold in this market.”
Now covering nine acres, the campus footprint has grown from 65,000 feet to 150,000 feet, according to the automaker.
VW is building $800 million at its Chattanooga meeting facility, where it will produce a new electric SUV until 2022.
Georgia’s inner port triples shipments
Despite COVID-19 outages, the total number of tons crossing all docks across the Georgian Port Authority reached a record 37.77 million in the fiscal quarter ended June 30, an increase of 0.6%, or 223,000 tonnes, compared to last year. The accumulation of tons of containers increased by 2% to 33.5 million tons in the year, record.
“COVID-19-related freight volume discounts were offset by the strength of our export markets and previous record volumes in the year,” said Griff Lynch, GPA’s Chief Executive Officer.
Even in difficult times, port activity related to ongoing expansion projects, such as port deepening and Mason Mega Rail, has accelerated the speed of investment in advertising infrastructure. According to Colliers International’s most recent report, five million square feet of advertising area are being structured lately in the Savannah market.
“What sets Savannah apart from the festival is the very capacity of the port’s ever-expanding footprint, inside and outside the terminal,” said Will McKnight, president of the Georgian Port Authority, which operates the third largest port in the United States.
In northwestern Georgia, the Appalachian Regional Port (PRA) treated more than 3 times and a portion of the shipment it had made last year, moving 27,132 containers or 19,610 boxes.
“The inner harbor is a real fortune for GPA and we expect our business to continue to grow,” Lynch said.
Pessina resigns as CEO of Walgreens
Stefano Pessina of Walgreens will leave the position of CEO and CEO once the pharmacy chain discovers a replacement for him.
The current chief executive, former McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner, will be on the board after Pessina takes over.
The company announced monday that there is no deadline for Pessina’s successor, 79.
Pessina told the Board of Directors of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. in a letter dated July 23 that he had been resigning “for some time, but for the reasons the board knows, the time has not come to do so.”
In the letter, he said he thought it was time to locate a successor. Pessina still has a more than 16% stake in Walgreens, according to FactSet.
The replacement of control comes a few weeks after Walgreens announced a massive quarterly loss and a major mall. Walgreens reported a $1.7 billion loss in the quarter that ended on May 31, and millions of others took refuge in their homes due to the immediate spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Delta and Lysol sign up for disinfection effort
Delta Air Lines is partnering with manufacturer Lysol as it works to improve the way it disinfects aircraft and airport spaces amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Lysol microbiologists will work with Delta’s new global cleaning department to expand new protocols for spaces such as restrooms, the Atlanta-based airline announced Monday. Lysol, owned by Reckitt Benckiser, or RB, will also supply a disinfectant spray and wipes.
United Airlines, one of Delta’s main rivals, said in May that it was partnering with another major cleaning brand, Clorox. The association asks United to use The Clorox Co products. of the same scale at airport gates and terminals, and to use disinfection procedures and appliances for customers.
Measures occur when U.S. airlines commit to convince travelers to fly back even when cases of coronavirus accumulate in much of the country. Air traffic has begun to recover in recent months, but has still fallen by more than 70%, resulting in huge monetary losses.
Delta and Lysol will work on disinfection procedures at gates and Sky Clubs, and Delta will deploy “care carts” with EPA-approved Lysol disinfection products.