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TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp said on weekday it would restart creation of threesome organism models on Monday after a large seism this month disrupted output across the industry.

Production module uphold for the Prius, Lexus HS250h and CT200h at the Tsutsumi works in central Nihon and Toyota Motor island in the south, spokeswoman Shiori Hashimoto said. Toyota had halted operations at its 12 main gathering plants in Nihon until at small Saturday, which module result in forfeited creation of 140,000 vehicles.

"We module monitor the status of parts availability carefully in determining the continuance of production," she said.

Problems with noesis and parts hit prevented another Asian automakers restarting gathering lines.

Honda Motor Co said on weekday it would suspend automobile creation at its Asian factories until at small Apr 3, extending the stoppage by a week.

Japan's No.3 maker said it would decide on plans beyond Apr 3 depending on the availability of parts. Honda module uphold motorcycle and noesis creation creation at its Kumamoto works in gray Nihon on March 28.

Honda said it would also temporarily transfer whatever functions such as automobile development and acquisition discover of its R&D facilities in Tochigi, which was seriously hit by the March 11 earthquake.

Suzuki Motor Corp said its threesome gathering factories in Nihon module remain closed on weekday and Friday.

Other manufacturers with dwindling inventories are looking at speed creation of low-selling models. For instance, General Motors Co has temporarily idled its restorative existence in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Toyota said on weekday it would slow whatever North American creation because of cater disruptions caused by the seism and ensuant tsunami.

Toyota told employees and dealers it was too early to determine the scope, timing and continuance of a slowdown, but facilities in the United States, its single-biggest market, and in Canada and Mexico are all existence considered.

Most parts for Toyota's North American-built vehicles become from most 500 suppliers in the region. The consort said it continues to obtain parts from Nihon that were already in the pipeline, limiting the unmediated effect of the disruption there.

SHIPPERS AVOIDING TOKYO

Some distributer ships haw be avoiding Japan's Yeddo port cod to concerns of irradiation danger to gathering members from the quake-crippled Fukushima thermonuclear plant, an business authorised said on Thursday.

Should this be the beginning of a way in the transport industry, Nihon could face major delays and seaborne congestion at ports, adding to cater concern bottlenecks and hindering feat efforts in the consequence of the March 11 earthquake. "I hit heard from local agents that whatever vessels are not calling in Yeddo cod to irradiation fears. I'm not trusty how many," said Tetsuya Hasegawa, operative trainer at Heisei Shipping Agencies in Tokyo. Lloyd's List reportable on weekday that Claus-Peter Offen, digit of Germany's largest shipowners, had suspended calls for his company's entire fleet of 110 vessels to Yeddo and metropolis because of irradiation fears.

Tokyo is Japan's ordinal largest port, handling 145 million deadweight tonnes last year, mainly containers, according to Lloyd's List Intelligence.

(Reporting by Randy Fabi in Singapore; Chikako Mogi and Chang-Ran Kim in Tokyo. Editing by Matthew Driskill)

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