OREANDA-NEWS. December 13, 2007. On 12 December in Ashkhabad Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of KAMAZ Inc., as a member of the government delegation of the Republic of Tatarstan, participated in official meetings and solemn events carried out during the Days of Tatarstan in Turkmenistan.

The general director of KAMAZ visited this Central Asian country not for the first time. In February 2005 Sergey Kogoghin was received by Saparmurat Niyazov, the first President of independent and neutral Turkmenistan, who approved the wish of KAMAZ to return to the car market of the country. In November 2007 the general director of KAMAZ as a member of the RF government delegation was at a state reception of Gurbangula Berdymukhamedov, the actual Turkmen President.

Exactly within the last three years the company boosted its business on the Turkmen market. As a result it became the most dynamically developing foreign market of KAMAZ Inc. According to the KAMAZ trucks purchase amount Turkmenistan is one of the top three leaders among foreign countries.

More than 300 vehicles were delivered to Turkmenistan till 2002. In 2003-2005 export into this country ranged between 65 and 105 units, in addition to that the share of KAMAZ on the local market didn’t exceed 15%. In 2006 almost thousand trucks were sold, a sales share increased to 78%. The KAMAZ vehicle fleet of the country, taking into account buses, numbers 32,2 thousand units, almost 4,3 thousand of which are exploited.

Large-scale investment projects are realized in Turkmenistan according to the government economic development program till 2020. Due to them the following basic branches of industry are developing dynamically: oil and gas recovery and processing, transport, building, textile industry, agriculture. Turkmenneftegaz, Turkmenneftegazstroy, Turkmengeologia, Turkmengaz and other companies and agencies of the country became the main customers of KAMAZ.

The representative office of KAMAZ Foreign-Trade Company was opened in 2006 in Ashkhabad. It’s planned to finish building a KAMAZ service center in May 2008. There will be the central representative office of KAMAZ in Turkmenistan. A presale preparation point works in Turkmenbashi, and a service center is located in Balkanabad. It’s planned to build a service center in the city called Mary later on.

KAMAZ offers a whole range of trucks, high service, parts supply to its Turkmen customers.