Honda Reportedly Plans New Plant In Thailand

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Honda reportedly plans new plant in Thailand

By MarketWatch

BANGKOK (Nikkei) -- Honda Motor Co. has decided to build another automobile factory in Thailand, likely in the southeastern part of the country where the risk of flooding is lower than where its existing plant is located, company sources said Monday, The Nikkei reported.

Having just reopened its plant in Ayutthaya Province on Monday, roughly six months after the facility in central Thailand was damaged by floods, the carmaker is moving to boost output capacity while diversifying risk. Honda wants to bring the new plant, which is expected to have an annual production capacity of 120,000 vehicles, online as early as 2015. [more...]

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^It's just about better planning really, as if they built it with a large raised parking garage to hold their completed cars and have a lot underneath the plant to utilize that open space at ground level too for when it's not flooding. Build the production level one level up and connect it all with ramps they could keep producing even during floods and just drive them out of the plant and store them and if they went even further and built a moat that also has a deeper channel that extends into the plant property it would get even deeper when it floods then they could float the new stock out on barges to higher ground to deliver for shipping.