LONDON — Honda will resume manufacturing at its Civic manufacturing facility in Swindon, England, on Monday after output was halted due to elements delays.

Honda had halted manufacturing on the plant on Wednesday as congestion at ports making an attempt to deal with Brexit and COVID19-related demand affected deliveries.

Britain’s main container ports comparable to Felixstowe have been hit this yr by the pandemic, which has disrupted world commerce, leaving containers within the mistaken place and items stocked up within the ports.

In latest weeks that state of affairs has been compounded by the arrival of Christmas inventory and items being stockpiled earlier than Brexit, straining the traditional free flowing motion, as Britain and the EU attempt to work out a commerce deal earlier than Dec. 31.

“Honda of the UK Manufacturing has confirmed to workers that full manufacturing operations will resume in all areas on Monday 14 December,” the corporate mentioned in a press release on Sunday.

Honda, like most automakers, operates a just-in-time system the place elements from suppliers go straight into the manufacturing facility and are put in in vehicles rolling down the meeting line. If only one element is lacking, it may well halt manufacturing.

UK importers have lengthy warned of significant disruptions to produce chains throughout a bunch of industries resulting from Brexit.

Whereas different automotive producers within the UK haven’t to date adopted Honda in halting output, a BMW spokesman mentioned the automaker is planning for some elements provides to take longer than typical.

Honda doesn’t plan to recuperate misplaced manufacturing this month, resulting from provider constraints, it mentioned in a memo to distributors seen by Bloomberg Information.

Honda constructed slightly below 110,000 Civic compact vehicles in Swindon final yr. It is because of completely shut the plant in 2021 as a part of a world manufacturing restructuring.

Reuters and Bloomberg contributed to this report