Automotive Industry

Vehicle shipping by sea follows industry's shift; Routes grow more diverse as Japanese automakers build abroad and other countries start exporting.(News)

Automotive News Europe, June, 2003

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Byline: Chris Wright

Automakers may be establishing factories all around the world to build where they sell. But there is not expected to be any slowdown in the number of cars shipped around the globe by road, rail or sea.

What is changing is the direction in which they are moving.

The big sea routes used to be between Japan and Europe, and Japan and North America. These once accounted for 75 percent of all car-carrying ocean movements. Now that number has almost halved.

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Having set up plants in both those regions, Japanese carmakers are now exporting closer to home, to ...

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Automotive Industry

Vehicle shipping by sea follows industry's shift; Routes grow more diverse as Japanese automakers build abroad and other countries start exporting.(News)

Automotive News Europe, June, 2003

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