NIZHNY NOVGOROD, January 27 (RIA Novosti) - Urals-based truck manufacturer Ural, part of Russia's second largest automaker GAZ Group, plans to organize the assembly of 2,000 trucks in 2010 in Sudan, the GAZ Group press office said Tuesday.
The first batch of 50 vehicle sets will be shipped to the northeastern African country this year, the press office said.
Viktor Korman, head of the GAZ Group truck division, said exports had been declared a priority direction for the automaker in 2009. The Ural auto factory plans to increase the number of trucks exported this year to 1,800 vehicles from 1,728 vehicles in 2008.
GAZ supplies vehicles to 35 countries in the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, and produces around 200,000 vehicles annually.
GAZ comprises 18 leading auto-making and machine-building enterprises in Russia and LDV Group in Britain.
