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Flood Waters Stop Production of Porsche’s Two Most Popular Models

Rising flood waters in the Czech Republic are high enough to disrupt the flow of Porsche Cayenne bodies to the one plant in Leipzig where they are assembled. As a result, workers on the early shift (one of three shifts per day) will not be coming to work on Thursday and possibly longer depending on weather and transport conditions.

“We have a bottleneck in the supply of car bodies built in the Volkswagen plant in Bratislava, which are transported by train across the Czech Republic to our plant in Leipzig,” said a spokeswoman for VW.

Flooding Will Impact Panamera Production Too

While there are no supply problems related to the Panamera, final assembly is done in the same plant. As a result, the lost shift(s) will mean lost production on the Panamera.

The same spokesperson who discussed the bottleneck in supply conditions also stressed that Porsche uses a flexible production system that allows them to offset the lost output through additional shifts. However, assuming they run 8 hour shifts, we can’t quite figure out how they would run additional ones? Even the Germans can’t create more time… Hopefully the flood waters recede soon.

UPDATE: June 7, 2013: Production has resumed at the Leipzig plant as supply issues have been resolved.

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[Source: AP/Reuters. Photo via BBC]

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