The world's largest automaker Toyota will halt most of its production lines in Japan for three days, due to disruptions at some of its local suppliers after a violent earthquake this week in the archipelago.
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From Monday to next Wednesday inclusive, Toyota will suspend 17 of its 28 production lines in Japan, and another line only on Monday, the group detailed in a press release published on Friday.
This measure, linked to “a shortage of parts caused by the impact” of the earthquake on some of its suppliers, will concern eleven factories of the group, including some of its subsidiaries Hino and Daihatsu.
A Toyota spokeswoman interviewed by AFP said this would affect the production of around 20,000 vehicles.
A series of major crises for the group
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Japan late Wednesday evening, derailing a shinkansen, Japan's high-speed train, and briefly knocking out power to more than two million homes.
The Japanese authorities recorded three deaths caused by this earthquake, whose hypocenter was located in the basement of the Pacific Ocean off the department of Fukushima (northeast).
Toyota has been experiencing repeated production difficulties for several months, linked to global shortages of semiconductors and other parts.
These setbacks have forced the group to repeatedly lower its production target for the 2021/22 financial year, which will end on March 31.
Toyota was also recently the collateral victim of a cyberattack that affected one of its suppliers in Japan.
The auto giant was forced to suspend all production in the country for one day on March 1 because of the incident.
It also delivered cautious production forecasts for its first quarter of 2022/23 (April-June) on Thursday, due to the persistence of the semiconductor supply crisis, and did not rule out adjusting further downgrade these goals.
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