On 21 September East London witnessed the loading of thelargest consignment of 3 168 locally built new-generation Mercedes-Benz C-Classcars, destined for the United States of America on the Liberty Acevessel. The consignment of vehicles will be off-loaded in Baltimore,Brunswick and Long Beach in the USA.
Rainer Ruess, vice-president responsible formanufacturing at the East London plant of Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA)said that this shipment reaffirms that USA customers remain extremely satisfiedwith the consistent manufacturing quality from the South African plant. Asrecently as July J. D. Power and Associates presented a second Gold Award forInitial Quality to the MBSA plant (following a similar award in 2009). In 2010this SA-based plant won the world’s most coveted Platinum Award for the best qualityplant anywhere on the globe supplying cars to the USA market. These J.D.Power Awards result from USA surveys conducted among over 80 000 new car ownersannually.
Eugene Theron, East London Acting Port Manager ofTransnet National Ports Authority was delighted with the smooth and quickloading of this consignment, making full use of the car terminal expansionproject which was commissioned specially to accommodate these largeconsignments. Later this week, East London will see the arrival of the largestcar carrier to ever call at the port. The 231-metre-long Tijuca will dock tohandle a consignment of vehicles for the South African market.
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