Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it expects to delay the delivery of about 23,000 vehicles by up to a month while it cleans up soot spewed from a Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. plant in central Japan.
According to the automaker, around 20,000 vehicles bound for export and some 3,000 units for domestic shipment kept at two storage sites in the city of Tokai in Aichi Prefecture were affected by the black smoke emitted from the steel mill late last month.