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A flood of impact in B.C.
By DENE MOORE
and DOUG FIRBY
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS CANADA
ALREADY BATTERED BY
inventory and parts shortages,
auto dealers in British Columbia
are now grappling with being
cut off from the rest of the country
because of recent widespread
flooding throughout the southHighway
closures restrict the flow of parts
and vehicles into and out of the province,
piling one crisis on top of another
western part of the province.
Automakers have also been
impacted as all major roadways
linking the Vancouver region
and the Port of Vancouver to the
rest of Canada were severed in
multiple places by landslides.
The province said Highway
5, the Coquihalla highway most
often used for commercial transSEE
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Suppliers look for a lifeline on skyrocketing costs
By DAVID KENNEDY
T ORONTO BUREAU CHIEF
Azzopardi:
" We're losing
money.
There's no ifs,
ands or buts
about it. "
FILE PHOTO
BEFORE THE PANDEMIC,
Laval Tool and Mould bought
steel from Canada and the United
States. Two years and a global-supply-chain
crisis later, prices have
doubled and the company sources
steel from six countries on three
continents.
" Nobody has captured that
If automakers aren't willing to make
concessions on contracts for parts,
there might not be any parts, says the APMA
type of increase, and nobody's
going to pay it, either, " Laval
President Jonathon Azzopardi told
Automotive News Canada. Steel
is just one of many key materials
whose price has ballooned since
the start of 2020, he said.
The Windsor-area toolmaker
and auto-parts supplier is far
from alone in facing a supply chain
more expensive at every stage.
Coupled with automakers building
fewer cars because of the global
microchip shortage, dramatically
higher material costs have
squeezed or turned profit margins
negative at many parts companies.
Suppliers warn that they could
be forced to close if automakers do
not make concessions.
Flavio Volpe, president of the
Automotive Parts Manufacturers'
Association (APMA), would not
name the good or bad actors but
said some automakers are showSEE
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