Toyota suspendd the night shift operation on Tuesday at one production line at its factory in central Japan due to an outbreak of Covid-19, after it suspended operations there also on Monday night.
Image:Toyota suspended the night shift operation on Tuesday at one production line at its factory in central Japan due to an outbreak of Covid-19, after it suspended operations there also on Monday night.
The suspension comes as the Japanese carmaker seeks to boost production in earnest after Covid-19 lockdowns in China and a global chip shortage forced it to repeatedly scale back output in the April-June quarter, falling about 10% short of its initially planned target. Sixteen workers at the Tsutsumi plant in Aichi Prefecture were infected with Covid-19, making it hard for the company to secure enough workers for operations, it said on Tuesday.Toyota suspended night shift operations at a different factory for two days for the same reason in late July.
The world's largest carmaker by sales has stuck to its 9.7-million global production target for the year ending March 2023, saying output and sales are on path to recovery from this month onwards.
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