Vehicles piling up in Bahrain garages as chip & parts shortage drags on | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF …

Vehicles piling up in Bahrain garages as chip & parts shortage drags on | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF …

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Report by Zahra Ayaz

The days of R Shankar, an Indian expatriate in Bahrain, now start not with the usual cup of tea or a Good Morning. Nowadays, he wakes up to an unusual task. “Call the garage.”

And this has been his routine for the past month.

The task is simple. Find out if the spare parts needed for his car has arrived.

It has been more than a month since his daily commute is waiting for critical parts to arrive at the service station.

Each time I call, they hang up, saying: “not yet ready”.

“Waiting for parts to arrive.” Shankar says the pain it gives is tremendous, as air, water and shelter are not just enough for humans to survive, as the vehicle is our primary need.

This, however, is not just the case for Shankar alone, as several others here are facing the same trauma – a shortage of spare parts.

Shankar is among the legions of people in Bahrain who is living in misery after sending their cars to service stations.

To find out the root cause of this crisis, The Daily Tribune contacted Industry experts here.

And all of them blame the crisis squarely on the supply chain