OREANDA-NEWS. Ceremony of transfer of new KAMAZ vehicles, designed specially for postal cargo delivery, to Post of Russia took place today at the facilities of automated mail sorting center in Podolsk.

At present 101 KAMAZ vehicles have already been delivered to regional branches of Post of Russia. The vehicles are transferred under the leasing agreement via KAMAZ-Leasing company. 

“Purchasing over 100 new vehicles we replace KAMAZ fleet by 60%, that will enable us to improve mail delivery and optimize costs, -general director of Post of Russia Dmitry Strashnov said. –We are planning to allocate 20 billion roubles for development of transport and logistics infrastructure, including replacement of 10,000 vehicles and purchase of about 400 high cube railway mail vans till 2018”.