Int'l exhibition of commercial auto transport boasts record participation

  
    MOSCOW, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - Specialized international
exhibition of commercial automobile transport, ComTrans'2011, opens at
Moscow's Crocus Expo exhibition center Tuesday.
    Representatives of the organizer company, Media Globe, say the
exhibition has every opportunity to become the world's largest display of
commercial auto transport in 2011.
    Spokespeople for the press service of the event say the International
Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers /OICA/ has included Moscow's
ComTrans in the official calendar of events as of this year, and the
leading international companies in the segment of commercial transport
have started choosing it as a high-performance business floor.
    "An intense interest to the exhibition is also firmly linked with the
high rates of growth of the Russian market of these automobile
technologies," a source told Itar-Tass.
    According to his data, some 320 companies from Russia, former Soviet
republics and foreign countries are taking part in ComTrans'2011.
    The manufacturers of trucks, busses, trailers, special vehicles, and
assembly units, as well as providers of maintenance services will
demonstrate their commercial offers on an area of over 45,000 square
meters in the Crocus Expo pavilions and at open-air floors in the next
five days.
      Compared with last year, the exhibition area has doubled and the
number of participating companies has gone up 70%, the organizers said.
    The list of foreign companies displaying their heavy-duty/medium-duty
trucks and busses includes MAN, Volvo, Scania, Mercedes-Benz, Renault
Trucks, Ford, Fiat, Isuzu, Peugeot, Volkswagen, and Hyundai.
    The Russian automobile industry is represented by GAZ Group, AMO ZiL,
NEFAZ, and TAGAZ companies.
    KAMAZ, one of Russia's leading manufacturers of trucks, has
constructed the largest-ever exhibition stand where it shows the entire
range of its products and the cars under design at the moment.