BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

30/08/2007

Belarus' MAZ truck maker to expand exports to Latin America

MOSCOW, August 30 (Itar-Tass) - Belarus' truck makers will expand exports to Latin America, the commercial director of the MAZ truck manufacturer, Igor Kushnersky, told a news conference on the sidelines of the Interauto-2007 international automobile exhibition on Thursday.

MAZ plans to export 100 trucks to Cuba and 250 dump trucks and tow trucks and one bus to Venezuela.

He pointed out that Russia, a traditional importer of the MAZ produce, has already bought 1,500 trucks and 700 buses.

Every year "our production is steadily growing to meet consumer's demand," Kushnersky said.

Under the Russian effective legislation, as of September MAZ will begin to manufacture trucks equipped with Euro-3 standard engines built in Yaroslavl, western Russia.

The contracts for trucks with such engines are being signed, although their price will go up by 5-7 percent, he said.

Aside from Russia MAZ exports trucks to other member-states of the CIS - Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11827498&PageNum=0