Azerbaijan Freed from Having to Purchase Special Equipment Abroad

Azerbaijan in the near future will be freed from having to buy the utility, and other special equipment.

According to the memorandum signed between the Gyanja Automobile Plant and the Belarusian holding AMKODOR, in our country will be utilized co-production of road construction, snow removal, airport, forest, agricultural and municipal machinery and equipment.

The contract for the manufacture of equipment will be signed after consideration of all technical issues, and the production will begin later this year. The local factory is charged with maintenance, as it has service centers in all economic regions of the country.

From the Azerbaijani side the document was signed by the Director General of the production association Gyanja Automobile Plant Kamran Nazarov, and from the Belarusian side – by the director of the factory Dormash Nikolai Kostenev.

The Azerbaijani and Belarusian cooperation of motorists started in late November 2006, when Belarus signed a contract on the construction and sale in Azerbaijan of trucks and tractors of the Minsk automobile and tractor plants.

Production facilities allow the local plant collecting about a thousand trucks and two thousand tractors a year. It produces the Belarus and MAZ models now.

The holding AMKODOR produces more than 80 models and modifications of machines. -17D-