A few hundred meters from the Toyota production lines in Onnaing, rails installed at the bottom of the logistics center which can store up to 18,000 cars to be shipped in Europe. A team of 13 people in charge Twice a week more than 500 Yaris on a train to England via the Channel Tunnel.
The vehicles are unloaded at Toton, a few kilometers from Derby, the factory that manufactures Corollas, which then leave for the northern logistics center to be sent back to Europe.
From April a new line will leave from the pole towards the Czech Republic, always on the same principle, trains that leave full of northern cars to return with Czech vehicles like the Aygo Cross explains Jean-Christophe Deville, Vehicle Logistics Director at Toyota Motor Europe.
7000 tonnes of CO2 saved
A way for the group, which already produces hybrids that are much less polluting than thermal cars, to go a little greener, with 7000 tons of CO2 saved per year. A good lever to achieve carbon neutrality in 2040.
It is also a way to almost halve the delivery time compared to a truck, boat, truck journey, with a gain of 4 days.
And then it also allows decongest traffic around the site but also on the motorway assures Matthieu Poidevin, manager of the division which can load up to 250 trucks per day. With this first phase of the plan, there will be 25 fewer trucks per day.
Toyota is already considering other routes to Spain, Italy and Turkey, enough to double the division’s freight teams and reach nearly 200 positions across the entire site.