VIETNAM TO ASSEMBLE RUSSIAN KAMAZ TRUCKS

HANOI, SEPTEMBER 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Kamfa motor works, based in the northeastern Vietnamese province of Kuangnin, will assemble its first thirty KAMAZ trucks on Monday, September 13, Vasily Tsyganov, head of KAMAZ' Vietnam Office, has announced.

Alexei Pakhomov, Deputy Prime Minister and Economics & Industries Minister of Tatarstan, and KAMAZ Director General Sergei Kogogin will be attending a ceremony to mark the occasion along with local officials. [Tatarstan is an autonomous republic in the middle reaches of the Volga river; KAMAZ' main manufacturing facilities are based in the Tatar city of Naberezhnye Chelny - Ed.]

According to Tsyganov, 300 KAMAZ dump trucks are to roll off the Kamfa plant's assembly line before the year's end. Russia's KAMAZes have been popular in Vietnam since 1979. Auto dealers have sold more than 5,000 trucks here over the last four years. However, Vietnam didn't start assembling KAMAZes until August 2003, in keeping with an agreement between the Russian manufacturer and Vietnam's VINACOAL Inc.