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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS WORLDWIDE
* Germany - Mercedes Benz Actros heavy-duty tractor unit brings BURAN space shuttle to the Technik-Museum in Speyer
Stuttgart/Speyer,Germany -Mercedes-Benz-Blog -April 24, 2008: -- In the first days of April, in the port of Rotterdam a crane hoisted the BURAN onto a sixteen-axle low-bed trailer with a Mercedes-Benz Actros SLT 4160 8x6/4 heavy-duty tractor unit, which had previously been placed on a pontoon barge... The first thing onlookers saw when the barge carrying the BURAN came around a bend in the Rhine, was the leaf-green Actros heavy tractor unit of the Kübler haulage company. The Russian space shuttle BURAN (= snowstorm) fascinated spectators all along the Rhine valley, past Cologne, past the famed Loreley rocks and all the way to Speyer, the home of the Technik-Museum... * Italy - Fiat Q1 trading profit up on trucks, heavy machinery; top of expectations
Milan,Italy -Thomson Financial News/Forbes (USA) -24 April 2008: -- Fiat SpA's trading profit -- operating profit from ordinary operations -- rose in the first quarter, supported by truck and heavy machinery operations, coming in at the top end of analyst expectations... Net profit rose to 405 million euros, from 358 million in first-quarter 2007, trading profit was 766 million, from 595 million, and sales 15.025 billion, from 13.676 billion, the company said...
* Sweden - Volvo’s Sales Improve on Eastern European Sales
Stockholm,Sweden -Bloomberg/Transport Topics (USA) -25 April 2008: -- Volvo AB’s earnings rose 12% to about $707 million, as sales in Eastern Europe Russia offset North American declines... Volvo said Europe’s truck market will grow by 10% this year, compared with a previous range of 5% to 10%...
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