Volvo's Sweden, Belgium plants to resume car output Monday

Volvo will restart its vehicle assembly lines in Torslanda, near Gothenburg, Sweden, and Ghent, Belgium, on Monday, ending a car production shutdown that started in March to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the automaker said Friday.

“Our prime responsibility as a company is to safeguard our employees' jobs for the future and to do the same for our suppliers and our dealers,” Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson told Automotive News Europe. "The best way to do this is to re-start our production."