* India - New FUSO trucks produced in
* India - Daimler rolls out FUSO range of trucks
(Photo: Bijoy Ghosh - Albert Kirchmann (left), head Daimler Trucks Asia, and President and CEO, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, and Marc Llistosella, Managing Director and CEO, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, with the new truck at company's Oragadam manufacturing facility near Chennai on Thursday)
Tamil Nadu,Chennai,India -The Hindu -23 May 2013: -- German truck maker Daimler AG rolled out from the company’s plant near here, the FUSO trucks with a local content of over 80 per cent... The FUSO range of trucks, which was produced by Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, Japan (MFTBC), consists of five models that span medium/heavy-duty and light/medium-duty... These trucks will be exported and sold through the FUSO network to 15 countries across Asia and Africa... The Oragadam plant, near here, will now complement Mitsubishi Fuso Truck’s Kawasaki plant in Japan, and the combined target of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and DICV is to double the annual sales of Fuso trucks to 290,000 units by 2020. Company officials, however, refused to divulge the expected geographic contribution of this target...
* Russia - Truckmaker Kamaz triples 2012 net profit and will pay first dividend in 20 yrs
(Photo: A Kamaz truck on route)
Moscow,Russia -Reuters, by Gleb Stolyarov; Maria Kiselyova; and Douglas Busvine -May 23, 2013: -- Russian truckmaker Kamaz said on Thursday it would return around 500 million roubles ($16 million) to shareholders in its first dividend payout in 20 years... Kamaz, in which German autos group Daimler has an 11 percent stake, said in a statement it would pay 10 percent of last year's net profit in dividends... The company earlier reported a tripling of earnings for 2012 to 5.8 billion roubles. Under Russian Accounting Standards that are used to calculate dividends, the net profit totalled 4.9 billion roubles. ($1 = 31.2910 Russian roubles)...
* Chinese truck maker eyes parts centre in Nigeria
Lagos,Nigeria -The Business Day, by Mike Ochonma -22 May 2013: -- With Nigeria as the most promising destination to make investment, CC Auto FZE, is making plans to establish a trucks spare parts centre... With October this year slated as the date for the commissioning, the spare parts centre will be located in the Calabar Free Trade Zone (CFTZ), Calabar, the Cross River State capital... The automobile company is devoted to the manufacturing of heavy duty equipments and special automobile vehicles ranging from highway trucks, trailer, off-road dumper, evacuation dump truck, cross country truck.self loader, fueltanker, Pick-up truck, mini truck, Minibuses and auto Chinese series. All these are based on Chinese Changchun Automotive industry cluster, which is the manufacturer of the first Chinese truck...
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