OREANDA-NEWS. The Economy Department of KAMAZ Inc. confirmed officially the saving  rate of the half-year work of the joint enterprise created on a par  with STS Logistics holding, the press service of the company informs. The transport costs were cut owing  to more effective physical distribution and a double-side commodity distribution network. As a result, an additional profit at the sum of  28,603 million rubles was gained. Initially it was planned to save only 15 million rubles. KAMAZ expects from the project that the transport-procurement costs will have been cut by 100 million rubles  
by the end of the year.

KAMAZ Inc.and STS Logistics holding created a joint enterprise STS-KAMAZ-Logistics in autumn 2006. According to Dmitry Parton, PR-Director of STS Logistics, KAMAZ announced repeatedly that the organization needs to optimize the schemes of transportation in order to reduce a transport component of its production. If optimization of foreign transportation is successfully realized, the joint enterprise will start a large-scale infrastructure project. There will be created a logistic park in Naberezhnye Chelny, the primary task of which will be optimization of warehouse logistics.