{"id":30694,"date":"2026-04-03T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30694"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:20:31","slug":"hyundai-motor-flags-export-disruptions-as-middle-east-conflict-hits-shipping","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/hyundai-motor-flags-export-disruptions-as-middle-east-conflict-hits-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai Motor flags export disruptions as Middle East conflict hits shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\">\n<div><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Hyundai Motors said on Friday that exports to Europe and North Africa, which typically transit through \u200cthe Middle East, were being disrupted by the conflict in the region, underscoring growing strains on global supply chains.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>\nThe disruption highlights how the conflict is choking key shipping routes, driving up logistics costs, delaying deliveries, and adding pressure on the automaker and its suppliers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Hyundai Motor is the world&#8217;s biggest third automaker by sales with its affiliates Kia warned that even if the Iran war ended \u200bsoon the impact would linger.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Kim Dong-jo, a\u00a0senior vice president\u00a0at Hyundai Motor&#8217;s Global \u2060Policy Office, said rebuilding supply chains would take time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Even if the conflict ends, it will take a considerable amount \u200bof time to rebuild and restore existing supply chains,&#8221; said Kim, who was speaking at Pyeongtaek-Dangjin Port, southwest of the \u200bcapital Seoul, where government officials, logistics firms and automakers met to assess the impact of the war.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The meeting took place at the port where cars were lined up on the wharf to be shipped on a giant vehicle carrier, set to carry about 4 900 vehicles and \u200bbound for the United States west coast.<\/div>\n<div>\nKim said rising logistics costs and raw material constraints linked to the conflict were \u200balso pressuring parts suppliers and production, adding that Hyundai\u00a0was working with suppliers and the government to minimise disruption.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-Reuters-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30695,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-30694","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Hyundai Motors says that exports to Europe and North Africa were being disrupted","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30696,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30694\/revisions\/30696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}