WWL UK managing director John Speakman said that the company has been working closely with both Jaguar and Land Rover since the 1980s, and the new long-term contract reinforces the joint work on quality and product improvements on logistics services.
The contract will see WWL shipping upwards of 45,000 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles in 2010 from Southampton to the following ports: Baltimore, Brunswick and Port Hueneme in the US; Halifax in Canada; Fremantle, Melbourne and Port Kembla in Australia; and Auckland in New Zealand.
The company will also provide terminal services for receiving all Jaguar and Land Rover models in Southampton, one of WWL's key hub ports in Europe.
The company will also use space it has charted on ACL vessels to ship Land Rover Freelander models from Liverpool, close to JLR's Halewood manufacturing plant, to Baltimore.
Pre-delivery and inspection (PDI) work will also be undertaken by WWL at its vehicle processing centres in Brunswick and Port Hueneme for Jaguar and Land Rover models destined for the East and West Coasts of the US.
In keeping with both companies' efforts to minimise their logistics footprint, Jaguar XK, XF and new XJ models are delivered by rail to WWL's Southampton hub from the Castle Bromwich plant, and the Freelander model is transported by rail from JLR's Halewood plant for export through Southampton.
