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Daimler says Japanese unit Fuso to resume truck production
Mar 21, 2011, 16:47 GMT
Stuttgart - Daimler, the world's biggest maker of commercial vehicles, said Monday its Japanese unit Fuso would resume production this week after being stopped by earthquake damage.
'We are assuming we will be producing again on Thursday,' a spokesman for the German company said in Stuttgart.
However, the final go-ahead would only be given just before the repaired production line began to move.
Daimler has a workforce in Japan of 13,000, most at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC).
It pulled out most of its German staff there amid fears that a radioactive cloud would spread from the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Most worked at Osaka, in the southern part of Japan. MFTBC's head office is in Kawasaki.
Daimler owns 90 per cent of MFTBC.
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