Jaguar Land Rover has not seen any affect so removed from congestion at UK ports, its dad or mum Tata Motors stated on Thursday, whilst many nations minimize transport ties with Britain resulting from a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus.

Toyota brought forward its Christmas production breaks at vegetation in England and France after transport disruption hit components provides.

Honda needed to stop output at its Civic factory in Swindon, England, earlier this month due to a scarcity of components. It resumed manufacturing a couple of week later.

The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded points that had been already affecting automakers forward of Brexit, with the looming finish to the transition interval broadly anticipated to trigger delays at ports whatever the final result of talks on a commerce deal.

Jaguar Land Rover halted manufacturing at its British factories for per week in November final 12 months to mitigate any potential affect from a no-deal Brexit forward of the then Oct. 31 deadline.

Bloomberg contributed to this report