Toyota Eyes 30% Rise in Exports From Indonesia
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia, or TMMIN, is targeting a 30 percent increase in exports this year, in line with its rising production capacity.
The company, the local manufacturing unit of the Japanese automaker, says it plans to export 152,000 completely built units this year, from 118,355 cars last year.
Bob Azam, executive general manager of external affairs at TMMIN, said the company began exporting two models — the new Toyota Vios sedan and the Astra Toyota Agya hatchback — this year.
“The two models will account for about 33,000 units,” Bob told reporters who visited the company’s export lot at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta on Tuesday.
TMMIN’s annual production capacity is currently 250,000 units. It produced 163,094 units in 2013, according to a company statement.
TMMIN has exported 33,327 CBU cars in the first quarter of this year, up 6 percent from the 31,501 units it shipped in the same period a year ago, Warih Andang Tjahjono, the TMMIN vice president director, said on Tuesday.
Exports of the Vios, which were first shipped to the Middle East, reached 2,861 units in March. TMMIN exports the compact sedan to nine Gulf countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen. Prior to that, it has been exporting the Vios to Singapore and Brunei since December, at a rate of about 500 units per month.
The Toyota Fortuner, a mid-sized SUV, constitutes the bulk of TMMIN’s exports, with 11,996 units shipped abroad in the first quarter. Other exported cars include the Innova, an MPV, and the Rush, a compact SUV. TMMIN also produces and exports the Avanza and Town Ace MPVs, and the Yaris hatchback to more than 70 countries in Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean.
In addition to its CBU cars, the company shipped 9,580 completely knocked down units in the first quarter to the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Venezuela, Egypt and Kazakhstan. It also exported 16,326 engines to 13 countries and 15 million automotive parts to 16 countries.
TMMIN’s car exports made up 70 percent of Indonesia’s total CBU car exports in 2013. Data from the Indonesian Automotive Industry Association (Gaikindo) showed that the nation exported 170,907 CBU cars last year.
Toyota Motor owns a 95 percent in TMMIN, while Astra International, Indonesia’s largest car distributor, owns the rest.