Auto production restarts after the Ambassador Bridge is cleared.

Ford Motor said that it hadn’t seen any impact related to the border disruptions since Friday, but that an Ohio facility would be shut down this week because of the chip shortage. General Motors said its factories were operating normally on Monday.

Toyota said that it expected border-related disruptions to continue this week, but that some improvements were likely in the coming days as the supply chain caught up. The company’s facilities in Ontario, Kentucky, Alabama and West Virginia had recently been affected by border blockades, a representative for the company said.

Stellantis, which owns Jeep, Ram and other brands, said it had cut short a number of shifts at U.S. and Canadian plants last week because of parts shortages caused by the blockade. Operations resumed Monday morning as scheduled, and the company is aiming to make up lost production in coming months, said Lou Ann Gosselin, a company spokeswoman.

“We are working with our carriers to get parts into the plants as quickly as possible to mitigate any further disruptions,” she said.

A representative for Unifor, a large Canadian union that represents autoworkers at many manufacturers, said auto production was likely to return to normal within days.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/business/canada-protest-auto-supply-chain.html