Today, on February 9-th, arriving at KAMAZ (a portfolio company of Rostech State Corporation) on a business visit will be the numerous party of visitors with professionals from Bolivia, headed by Gróver Cuevas Iznado, Executive Director of the country’s National Transport Organization as well as representatives of Gazprom transgas Kazan and the branches of Gazprom International in Moscow and St.Petersburg.
The guests intend to discuss prospects of cooperation with KAMAZ PTC in the sphere of NG vehicle supplies. Interest of more than two dozens of engineers and technicians from Bolivia and Russia is focused on the capabilities of KAMAZ PTC in this area, therefore their first port of call will be the production facility which manufactures NG commercial vehicles. The program of the meeting provides also for a visit to view a display of trucks operating off natural gas at the R & D Center of KAMAZ.
These professionals have a very good reason for their visits to Tatarstan and KAMAZ. The program for development of natural gas fuel in the Russian Federation envisages conversion of transport to the use of natural gas as economical and environmentally friendly type of fuel. It was precisely Tatarstan that in 2013 became a pilot region to pioneer introduction of liquefied and compressed natural gas as engine fuel. The main national manufacturer of heavy duty commercial vehicles (trucks and buses), i.e. KAMAZ PTC, is ready to respond with an offer to the demand which has crystallized itself.
KAMAZ is Russia’s leader in the manufacture of NG trucks. The production line turning out NG vehicles inaugurated at the giant truck making concern in April 2015, is capable of producing annually up to eighty thousand units representing in excess of 50 various models of commercial vehicles.
«Practice has proved reliability and safety of natural gas when it is used as engine fuel, - pointed out Sergey Kogogin, General Director, KAMAZ PTC. – Therefore, today, the efforts of our Company are focused not only on converting vehicles to gas but also on organization of warranty service, after-market service for NG commercial vehicles». According to Kogogin, KAMAZ commercial vehicles powered by NG engines have already borne out their high efficiency in many Russian cities. Particularly speaking, NEFAZ buses (the products made by the subsidiary of KAMAZ PTC in Bashkortostan) working off natural gas based fuel are in common use in Kazan, Sochi, Astrakhan, other Russian regions having shown a huge fuel saving.
