Thursday, April 28, 2011

Japan: earthquake bringing down production in March

The effects of the earthquake that struck Japan over a month ago there was also affected on the automotive industry, with some positive effects that have affected a lot on produzioneper various automotive brands in the country. According to data released in Tokyo by the national car manufacturers, JAMA, in March, car production fell by 57.3% over the same month of 2010 due to the closure of establishments in the country in the days after the earthquake and related tsunami.

In total, in March were 404,039 cars produced in Japan, with a general decline, which stood in a -62.9% for Honda, with 34,754 copies together, -62.7% for Toyota, fermatasi to 129,491 units, and -52.4% of the Nissan, from whose factories have gone out 47,590 cars. To be heavily penalized, however, was not only the production but to suffer sharp fall was also the export, which in March dropped by 26.1% to 312,478 units total.

Positive notes are coming from the budget of fiscal year 2010 ended March 31, in which case the Japanese houses have seen a production incrementodella 1, 5% over the previous year, reaching 8,993,975 vehicles, with Nissan on shields (+4.6%) and Honda who finished with +1.2%, while Toyota has seen production fall by 6.3%.

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