Egypt suspended car production

And 'the great escape game. Not the 1963 movie with Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson, but the reality of what is happening in Egypt, where car plants have suspended production and many managers are rushing off to the motherland. The riots of recent days, drive to political uncertainty for the future, meant that Nissan, General Motors, Daimler and BMW would stop their assembly and subsequent deliveries of both cars for fear of damage to equipment and products is for fear of jeopardizing the safety of those who work there.

And while no one knows if or when you will start to assemble the vehicles to be allocated to that market. The only reliable information comes from Nissan, which while it has asked its employees to go home, it also expressed its willingness to resume as soon as the work at its plant that produces 10,000 units per year, however, insufficient to meet the local demand which in 2010 was 12,000 vehicles with the brand of Japanese manufacturer.

In anguish also Volkswagen, which said it had suspended shipments of cars in Egypt, leaving many loads to wait for better times along the path leading to the port of Alexandria.

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