NABEREZHNYE CHELNY, Tatarstan, October 10 (AVN) - The local KAMAZ JS, one of Russia's leading makers of civil- and military-purpose automobiles, sold over RUR9bn (USD321.7m) of its products in the first nine months of this year, which is more than in the entire 1999, a spokesman for the company administration said on Tuesday.
The company's 10 factories produced 15,515 trucks, 24,504 cars, 23,935 engines and power plants in the period under consideration, the spokesman told the Military News Agency.
KAMAZ managers expect the pace of output and sales growth to remain stable until the end of the year, which will enable the company to beat the targets of its business plan.
At the same time, the management is concerned over poor sales of KAMAZ products to the Russian Defence Ministry and other law-enforcement agencies, the spokesman said. Russian Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin said here early this year that the army badly needs comfortable cross-country trucks produced by KAMAZ, but an increase of the state defence order never followed.