Nissan is forced to temporarily halt production at its factory in Sunderland, UK. The reason: a parts shortage due to the pandemic.
It is raining reports of factories shutting down all or part of their production. Nissan is next in line. In the case of the Japanese brand, this is a parts shortage caused by the pandemic. That is stated in a statement. Therefore production in Sunderland has been halted. They hope to be able to continue next Monday. The production stop will affect the Leaf and the Qashqai. Earlier this week, Nissan still contradicted reports of a production stop in British media, but now it appears to have come to that.
It is the second time in a short time that a car factory in the United Kingdom has had to shut down production. Earlier this month it happened at Honda in Swindon. The pandemic was also mentioned as the main cause for this, although customs problems due to Brexit would also play a role in this. In the meantime, more and more manufacturers are seeing production problems here on the European mainland due to a shortage of semiconductors and computer chips. We learned, for example, of production delays at Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Ford.