Wednesday, January 18, its intention to launch
its $100 million truck assembly plant by next
week. The executive director of Dangote Group,
Edwin Devakumar, made the announcement in
Lagos.
Dangote Group, Mr Anthony Chiejina had
earlier announced the project, on Sunday,
January 15, saying Dangote would be
partnering with a leading Chinese Company,
National Heavy Duty Truck Group Company
Limited, SINOTRUK to produce trucks used
mainly for haulage from its newly promoted
assembly plant at Ikeja, Lagos.
Devakumar on Wednesday said: “It aims to meet
an expected increased demand for transport in the
country as the government focuses on boosting
agriculture and farmers need to move goods across the
vast country.
“The Dangote Group has a fleet size of 12,000 trucks
and large users. One of the biggest challenges in the
market today is logistics because we do not have a
proper transport network.
“The joint venture, which is 65 per cent owned by
Dangote and 35 per cent by Sinotruck, will assemble
components and knocked down parts imported from
Sinotruck to the Nigerian plant.”
0 comments: