Category: Trucking News

Suzuki rethinks promise of India's auto market, and it is not alone

Suzuki Motor Corp said it was no longer gung-ho about India's auto market, the world's fourth-largest, where it has seen relentless growth in the past seven years. The Japanese automaker issued the warning after it reported a slump in quarterly profit this week on tumbling sales at its Indian unit, Maruti Suzuki, which accounts for half the number of cars sold in India. "We no longer think that growth in India will be an uninterrupted move upwards," Suzuki President Toshihiro Suzuki cautioned....

Big China Defaulter Hunts for Cash With $2 Billion Due Next Year

(Bloomberg) -- China Minsheng Investment Group Corp. once sought to be the nation’s version of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Instead it’s the country’s biggest dollar bond defaulter this year. With $2 billion of debt maturing in 2020, the company is scrambling to raise cash. It’s slashed executive pay as much as 83% and is selling assets.What’s the company:One of the largest private investment companies in China, the group was set up by 59 non-state companies in 2014 with a mandate to help Chinese private enterprise expand globally. The company posted 24.7 billion yuan ($3.5 billion) in revenue in the nine months through September 2018, and had 233 billion yuan in total liabilities at that point, according to a prospectus filing. It hasn’t disclosed financial results since.What’s happening:After a debt-fueled spending spree of more than $4 billion over the past five years, the first signs of trouble appeared in January, when CMIG...

Indonesia's Lion Air finds cracks in two 737 NGs with fewer flights than FAA safety directive

JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lion Air has found structural cracks in two Boeing Co 737 NG planes with fewer flights than a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) threshold for checks, Indonesia's aviation safety regulator said on Friday. An FAA spokesman said the agency had asked operators to report any cracks so it could assess whether it needed to change its inspection orders. The Lion Air jets with cracks had fewer than 22,000 cycles and are now grounded for repairs, a spokesman for the airline said....