Honda will resume UK output after world provide delays

LONDON — Honda will restart output at its British manufacturing unit on Thursday after it was halted for 2 days resulting from world provide delays, a spokesman mentioned.

Main automakers function just-in-time manufacturing, that means some elements arrive moments earlier than they’re fitted to automobiles.

Honda constructed slightly below 110,000 Civic automobiles in Swindon in 2019. Honda is closing the plant completely in July as a part of a worldwide restructuring.

Honda additionally suspended manufacturing on the plant for a number of days in December as some main container ports, equivalent to Felixstowe, struggled to deal with disruption brought on by COVID-19, pre-Brexit stockpiling and Christmas.

Honda’s European gross sales fell 35 % to 72,421 within the first 11 months of 2020, based on JATO Dynamics market researchers.