That the massive earthquake that rocked Northern Japan earlier this month could have global ramifications is hardly surprising – especially after news today could Toyota will temporarily idle its San Antonio, Texas, assembly plant and that German automakers and suppliers are considering cutting production.
The production cuts come due to difficulty acquiring Japanese-made goods.
“We are informing our team members that, with the situation over in Japan, it is likely that we will see some nonproduction days coming,” Toyota plant spokesman Craig Mullenbach told members of the media.
Toyota builds its Tundra and Tacoma pickup trucks in San Antonio.
Meanwhile, the situation in Germany, where numerous vehicles and components are assembled, is also worsening.
“We have received inquiries mainly from western Germany, from companies that are signalling that they could face problems because their inventories could slowly start running out,” a spokeswoman for Germany’s Federal Labor Office told Reuters today.
Robert Bosch, one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, says that it has inventory for at least the next week to ten days, but the firm says it could run low on parts shortly thereafter if production is not able to resume in Japan. Although Bosch is a German firm, the company supplies parts for every major automaker across the globe and it has assembly plants in Japan.
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