LAZ wins tender on supply of 84 buses to Macedonia

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The Lviv Bus Plants Holding (LAZ) is to supply 84 buses worth EUR 10 million to Macedonia in 2010-2011, the City transport Group managing company of the holding has told Interfax-Ukraine.

A company representative said that the plant won a tender on supply of 80 'solo' buses and four articulated buses for Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.

The company said, referring to the director general of the managing company, Oleksandr Lobko that 42 buses will be delivered by late spring or early summer of 2010, and the second consignment will be supplied in early 2011.

The agreement with a Macedonian delegation headed by Macedonian Transport and Communications Minister Mile Janakieski will be signed on January 29 in Kyiv at a meeting between the Ukrainian cabinet, the Macedonian delegation and LAZ-Holding board chairman Ihor Churkin.

"As a part of the contract over 100,000 jobs will be retained not only at the Lviv Bus Plant, but also at other Ukrainian companies, which are engaged in the program. This is a real chance of the Ukrainian engineering sector to come out of the economic recession," the company said.

The Macedonian delegation will also discuss a LAZ's proposal to supply LAZ-E301 articulated low-deck trolleybuses with the attraction of Ukrainian companies into the building of trolleybus lines.

As reported, the holding's proposal was declared best.

LAZ Holding with City Transport Group managing company was established in 2007 as part of reorganization of the company management system. The holding includes Lviv Bus Plant, Dnipro Auto Assembly Plant (Dniprodzerzhynsk), Mykolaiv Machine-Building Plant, Ukrainian Commercial Vehicles Trade House, Bus-Service service company, and LAZ Finance leasing company.

29.01.2010