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Minsk Automobile Plant to create assembly facilities in Uzbekistan

18 September 2018 [13:25] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Kamila Aliyeva

The Minsk Automobile Plant (MAP) is discussing the possibilities of creating assembly facilities in Uzbekistan.

“On the instructions of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, we are planning to establish a joint enterprise for the assembly of Belarusian trucks in Uzbekistan, which will enable us to increase trade between the two countries, and also to export to countries such as Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. The terms of the contract and its specific details now are being discussed,” deputy director of MAZ-Tashkent trade house Golibzhon Khusanov told Podrobno.uz.

In the first half of 2018, the Belarusian plant supplied products worth $ 1.4 million to Uzbekistan. It is planned that during the ‘Made in Belarus’ exhibition, which will end on September 19, contracts for another $ 2.5 million will be signed. As a result, until the end of 2018, 50 units of equipment will be delivered to the republic.

The Minsk Automobile Plant at the exhibition site presents various equipment for construction works, among which is a truck crane for loading and unloading and construction and assembly works and dump trucks for the transport of bulk cargo. In addition, the guests of the exhibition are also presented with a low-floor bus MAZ-206.

In February of this year, the "Toshshakhartranskhizmat" Association of Tashkent Urban Transport Services began pilot operation of two low-floor buses of MAZ brand, one being of large passenger capacity, another – of medium passenger capacity.

The buses are equipped with an engine running on compressed natural gas (methane), corresponding to the environmental standard Euro-5, which can significantly improve the level of purity of ecology by reducing the amount of toxic emissions from fuel combustion.

Earlier, Mirziyoyev and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko held a meeting. The parties agreed to develop cooperation in the fields of health, science and technology, higher education, culture, as well as between academies of sciences of the two countries.

The volume of trade turnover between countries in 2017 increased by 60 percent, while in January-July this year it grew almost fourfold and reached $ 208 million. At the same time, $ 189 million of this amount account for Belarusian exports to Uzbekistan.

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