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Mercedes-Benz Vans vendor to create 180 jobs in Charleston County (South Carolina)
The Post and Courier ^ | July 11, 2018 | John McDermott

Posted on 07/11/2018 11:59:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A global transportation company that handles incoming parts and finished goods for other businesses is expanding to the Charleston region to support the Mercedes-Benz Van plant.

Logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel Inc. said it plans to create 180 jobs over the next three years at its new Palmetto Commerce Park operation in North Charleston. Hiring for the positions is already underway.

The firm is setting up shop on the expanding Mercedes-Benz campus, between Ashley Phosphate and Ladson roads. Its services will include taking deliveries, managing inventory and transporting parts to the Sprinter plant assembly line as needed on a "just-in-time" basis.

Bob Mihok, president and CEO of Kuehne + Nagel North America, said the deal extends the company's 15-year relationship with Germany's Daimler Group, which owns Mercedes-Benz.

"Our supply-chain services in the new Charleston ... van plant will improve assembly line productivity and enhance vehicle production," Mihok said in a written statement. "We look forward to adding value to our customers' supply chain for many years to come."

The North Charleston site has for years reassembled partly completed Sprinter utility vans imported from Germany as kit vehicles as a way to avoid steep U.S. import taxes. Strong demand for the vehicles from North American buyers convinced Mercedes-Benz in 2015 to invest $500 million over several years to convert the plant into a full-scale production factory.

The carmaker expects to increase its payroll along Palmetto Commerce Parkway to about 1,300 workers by 2020.

Established in 1890 in Germany, Kuehne + Nagel is among the world's biggest air, sea and ground logistics providers. The Switzerland-based company works with a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, energy and retail. It has more than 1,300 offices and 70,000 employees.

Applicants for the North Charleston job openings were directed to www.KNCareers.com. Specific details about the positions were not immediately available.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: automobiles; europeanunion; germany; hiring; jobs; maga; nato; presidenttrump; southcarolina; tariffs; trade
Pretty sure those aren't minimum wage jobs.
1 posted on 07/11/2018 11:59:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The younger folks hired with minimum job experience might start out at $15 to $17 an hour. The folks with any real background? Probably in the $18 to $24 an hour range.

The key fact here is that in a couple of months...180 folks from around Charleston who weren’t employed, or paying federal/state taxes....will be fully employed and paying taxes. All of them will be looking at upgrading their car situation in a year...maybe moving to better housing...maybe taking a week off next summer for a real vacation...and thinking about Trump in November 2020. Life is good.


2 posted on 07/12/2018 1:54:27 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

I’ll tell you what.

America ran a $375,000,000,000 bilateral trade deficit with China, just last year.

That is an all-time record high. Between any two countries. Ever.

The deficit is still increasing, every single month, this year.

$375,000,000,000 invested in American factories, will put a heck of a lot of Americans back to work.

A lot.


3 posted on 07/12/2018 2:18:14 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BM. Great News!


4 posted on 07/12/2018 2:49:32 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 ( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Drove a Sprinter for a few years, not bad, it’s the same as the VW Crafter.


5 posted on 07/12/2018 3:36:23 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: cba123
$375,000,000,000 invested in American factories, will put a heck of a lot of Americans back to work.

Not only that, but it will create more tax payers to pay into our infrastructure and military instead of other's. And it will create fewer government dependents.

All of that is worth more than the extra cost of the products they would make.

6 posted on 07/12/2018 3:52:13 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: GonzoII
Drove a Sprinter for a few years, not bad, it’s the same as the VW Crafter.

They look top heavy to me. I wouldn't want to drive it on a windy interstate.
7 posted on 07/12/2018 3:58:02 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty; cba123
All of that is worth more than the extra cost of the products they would make.

As the increased import tariffs slowly take effect, and trade deficits decline, the US dollar will only strengthen. This strengthening of the USD will alleviate the effect of the import tariff on prices of imported goods. In addition as more domestic suppliers of consumer goods come on line, the pressure on prices will be downward.

8 posted on 07/12/2018 4:09:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Bringing jobs back to America will decrease our deficit with China, it will re-industrialize our nation, it will hire Americans, it will get them off the government dole, it will decrease our budget deficits, it will improve our trade deficit greatly, and it will prevent China from replacing us.

NOT doing anything, will do the opposite:

It will continue to balloon our trade deficit with China (already an all-time record high).

It will continue to rob us of jobs.

It will continue to put Americans out of work.

It will increase the amount our government spends on supporting people who don’t work.

It will further increase our trade deficits.

And it will eventually result in history’s biggest country (not a democracy) replacing America.

America needs to do the first.

The alternatives, are national defeat.


9 posted on 07/12/2018 4:17:38 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: central_va

Our current situation, of just ever running up more, and more, and more debt on our nation.

Will eventually lead to us losing our leadership role.

And lead to the loss of the prestigious role, of the dollar in the world.

We need to fix our production. To protect the dollar.

We need to fix it now.


10 posted on 07/12/2018 4:39:27 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The reason factories moved to China:
If the factory is in the US, the products can’t be sold in China due to high tariffs.
If the factory is in China, the products can be sold in the US AND in China.


11 posted on 07/12/2018 6:05:30 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Dr. Sivana
"I wouldn't want to drive it on a windy interstate. "

With no cargo and (very) high winds you definitely notice it, especially on bridges.

12 posted on 07/12/2018 7:11:35 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I’ve seen them come in different heights. The shortest one looks sort of like an oversize minivan or Ford transit and probably drives similarly.

A cousin of mine has a taller one as a work truck. He likes it because he can stand up completely and still have access to a workbench, tools and parts bins.


13 posted on 07/12/2018 8:27:01 AM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: Crolis

The North Charleston site has for years reassembled partly completed Sprinter utility vans imported from Germany as kit vehicles as a way to avoid steep U.S. import taxes. Strong demand for the vehicles from North American buyers convinced Mercedes-Benz in 2015 to invest $500 million over several years to convert the plant into a full-scale production factory.

Which is how automakers get around the “chicken tax” on imported trucks.


14 posted on 07/12/2018 9:16:46 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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