豐田從印尼輸出汽車到中東

Last month the NHK New on-line reported the following:

トヨタ インドネシアからの輸出本格化

3月26日 22時59分

トヨタ自動車は、インドネシアで生産した乗用車を中東に向けて本格的に輸出することになり、現地に駐在するサウジアラビアの大使などを招いて、記念の式典を開きました。

トヨタ自動車は去年３月、インドネシアの首都ジャカルタ郊外にある自動車の組み立て工場の敷地内に第２工場を建設し、生産台数を増やしてきました。
そして、今後は中東に向けて乗用車の輸出を本格化させることになり、２６日、インドネシアに駐在するサウジアラビアやイエメンの大使など、中東の８つの国と地域の大使や代表を招いて記念の式典を開きました。
トヨタはインドネシアをタイに並ぶ輸出の拠点にする方針で、去年６万台だったインドネシアからの輸出を、まずは８万台近くにしたい考えです。
式典に出席したインドネシアのルトフィ商業相は、「車を輸出するだけでなく、インドネシアで有名な渋滞も輸出します」などと冗談を交えながら、輸出の振興を歓迎しました。
インドネシアトヨタの福井弘之会長は、「インドネシアではトヨタグループの車の輸出が７割を占めるようになっており、相当、インドネシア経済に貢献できている」と述べ、今後も輸出を増やしていく考えを示しました。
インドネシアでは、ホンダもことし１月に第２工場を完成させたほか、日産自動車も再来年に年間の生産台数を２５万台に増やすなど、各社が生産能力の増強を急いでいます。

(試譯文)

Toyota Motor would in earnest export to the Middle East its passenger cars produced in Indonesia, and invited the Saudi Arabia ambassador and others who were residing in Indonesia to a commemorative ceremony held by the company.

In March last year Toyota Motor built a 2nd factory at the site of its car assembly plant located in a suburb of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia to increase the volume of production.

From now on the exportation of passenger cars into the Middle East was formalized. A commemorative ceremony was held on the 26^th (March). The Saudi Arabia ambassador and the Yemen ambassador etc. together with representatives from eight Middle Eastern countries and areas who were residing in Indonesia were invited.

Toyota was planning to make Indonesia the base of export on a par with Thailand. First of all, it intended to set the export from Indonesia to about 80,000 cars while last year was 60,000 cars.

Rutofi the commercial Minister of Indonesia who had attended the ceremony welcomed the promotion of export and exchanged a joke that "it is not only exporting cars, but is also exporting traffic congestion which Indonesia was famous for" etc.

Indonesia Toyota Chairman Hiroyuki Fukui said that "the Toyota group accounts for 70 percent of the car export in Indonesia, and is contributing to the Indonesia economy considerably", and he showed the idea to continue to increase the export.

In Indonesia, Honda also completed its 2nd factory in January this year. Also, Nissan Motor would increase its annual volume of production to 250,000 cars in the year after next. All companies were hurrying to reinforce their production capacity.

  It seems that Japan is shifting its investment to the South-east Asian countries, probably from China.