IN ST TRUCK MAN WILL COLLECT
Georgy Poltavchenko, the governor of the Leningrad region, said that the German company MAN will launch production of trucks in St. Petersburg next year. MAN vehicles in second place in sales of heavy trucks in Russia.
Today, MAN has received all necessary permits from the city government documents for the construction of car plant in the south of St. Petersburg in the industrial zone of Shushary.
Poltavchenko said that the automaker had questions related to possible changes in federal legislation, including the relevant fees for the disposal of old cars, but now investors have already got all the answers.
Thus, the plant will be the seventh MAN now in the city, where the cars are collected foreign car makers. In St. Petersburg are the company#39;s plant Ford, Scania, Hyundai, General Motors, Nissan and Toyota.
The governor assured the German side is that side of the project will be given the maximum possible support. He expressed the hope that the company will start production within the time specified in the contract.
Capital investment in the project is 25 million euros. At first, the plant plans to collect about 6,000 trucks a year.
