If I understand you correctly, I would say: Despite the factory's repeated effort to push things forward, the speaker will only arrive a little bit early, on 29 March, because of the unexpected earthquake in Japan. We will try to push them to start the production immediately and finish the goods quickly in order to catch the earlier shipment. But it should not be a problem to keep the shipment on-time.
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