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Turkmenistan becomes one of top three partners of KamAZ
KAZAN, July 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Turkmenistan has become one of the top three partners of Russia's KamAZ truck maker, its Director General Sergei Kogogin said.
"A KamAZ training and service centre will be opened in the capital of
Turkmenistan on July 5. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Turkmen
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, and Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko
will attend the ceremony," he told Itar-Tass.
The seven million U.S. dollar centre was built by Turkmenistan for and
at the expense of KamAZ in an area of 1,6 hectares that house production
facilities, warehouses, and the plant's representative office.
The centre is designed to service 1,000 automobiles a year. It will
also train specialists for KamAZ's trade and service centres in
Turkmenistan.
"The new centre will offer high quality services to Turkmenistani
automobile owners, supply space parts and train highly skilled specialists
in automobile maintenance and repair," Kogogin said.
In his words, almost 7,000 KamAZ trucks are operated in Turkmenistan.
Earlier this year, an agreement was signed with the government of
Turkmenistan for the supply of 2,500 trucks in 2008. Of them over 1,300
have already been shipped. The export of spare parts has quintupled since
2007.
"A total of 212 trucks will be supplied in July," Kogogin said.
KamAZ started supplying the first KamAZ trucks and spare parts for
them to Turkmenistan in February 2008. The supplies will amount to 47
million U.S. dollars, the company press service said.
KamAZ will supply 333 pieces of road-building machinery and spare
parts for them worth almost 23.9 million U.S. dollars to Turkmenistan's
Avtodorogi company.
Another 322 KamAZ heavy duty trucks and spare parts worth 23.5 million
U.S. dollars will be supplied to the Ministry of Building Materials of
Turkmenistan.
Under the agreement signed on January 15, 2008 by Tatarstan's Prime
Minister Rustam Minnikhanov and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan
Rashid Meredov, Ashgabat has opened a KAMAZ service centre to train
Turkmen graduates of the Engineering Academy in Naberezhnye Chelny who
will work in the service centre.
Minikhanov and Berdimuhammedov also reached an agreement on supplies
of passenger buses provided with KamAZ-made wheels to Turkmenistan and
tractors built by the joint venture run by KamAZ and McCormick companies.
Turkmenistan becomes the third-largest buyer of KamAZ trucks after
Kazakhstan which will buy 8,400 automobiles in 2008, an increase of 1,370
than in 2007. Ukraine is second with 3,600 trucks (640 more than in 2007),
the press service said.
The company plans to export one in four trucks (over 16,000) or 2,620
more than in 2007.
"Kama heavy-duty trucks are actively used for the implementation of
Turkmenistan's state programme of economic development up to 2020,"
Berdymukhamedov said when visiting Tatarstan on June 29-30.
The main consumers of Russian KamAZ trucks are Turkmenneftegaz,
Turkmengaz, Turkmengeologia, Turkmenneftegazstroi, and enterprises of the
Ministry of Transport and Roads.
"A KamAZ training and service centre will be opened in the capital of
Turkmenistan on July 5. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Turkmen
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, and Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko
will attend the ceremony," he told Itar-Tass.
The seven million U.S. dollar centre was built by Turkmenistan for and
at the expense of KamAZ in an area of 1,6 hectares that house production
facilities, warehouses, and the plant's representative office.
The centre is designed to service 1,000 automobiles a year. It will
also train specialists for KamAZ's trade and service centres in
Turkmenistan.
"The new centre will offer high quality services to Turkmenistani
automobile owners, supply space parts and train highly skilled specialists
in automobile maintenance and repair," Kogogin said.
In his words, almost 7,000 KamAZ trucks are operated in Turkmenistan.
Earlier this year, an agreement was signed with the government of
Turkmenistan for the supply of 2,500 trucks in 2008. Of them over 1,300
have already been shipped. The export of spare parts has quintupled since
2007.
"A total of 212 trucks will be supplied in July," Kogogin said.
KamAZ started supplying the first KamAZ trucks and spare parts for
them to Turkmenistan in February 2008. The supplies will amount to 47
million U.S. dollars, the company press service said.
KamAZ will supply 333 pieces of road-building machinery and spare
parts for them worth almost 23.9 million U.S. dollars to Turkmenistan's
Avtodorogi company.
Another 322 KamAZ heavy duty trucks and spare parts worth 23.5 million
U.S. dollars will be supplied to the Ministry of Building Materials of
Turkmenistan.
Under the agreement signed on January 15, 2008 by Tatarstan's Prime
Minister Rustam Minnikhanov and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan
Rashid Meredov, Ashgabat has opened a KAMAZ service centre to train
Turkmen graduates of the Engineering Academy in Naberezhnye Chelny who
will work in the service centre.
Minikhanov and Berdimuhammedov also reached an agreement on supplies
of passenger buses provided with KamAZ-made wheels to Turkmenistan and
tractors built by the joint venture run by KamAZ and McCormick companies.
Turkmenistan becomes the third-largest buyer of KamAZ trucks after
Kazakhstan which will buy 8,400 automobiles in 2008, an increase of 1,370
than in 2007. Ukraine is second with 3,600 trucks (640 more than in 2007),
the press service said.
The company plans to export one in four trucks (over 16,000) or 2,620
more than in 2007.
"Kama heavy-duty trucks are actively used for the implementation of
Turkmenistan's state programme of economic development up to 2020,"
Berdymukhamedov said when visiting Tatarstan on June 29-30.
The main consumers of Russian KamAZ trucks are Turkmenneftegaz,
Turkmengaz, Turkmengeologia, Turkmenneftegazstroi, and enterprises of the
Ministry of Transport and Roads.
