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developing unique comprehensive solutions enabling the use of the company's dump trucks in any part of the world,” the company said in a press release.
Leading Belarusian truck-maker BelAZ will resume delivering to China, BelTA reported on November 13. The deal was signed at the recent Shanghai expo that attracted most of the leading companies from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as China becomes an increasingly important export for the region. Alexander Zuyenok, Head of the Non-CIS Sales Department of BelAZ took part in the expo and signed a contract for delivering a haul truck with the carrying capacity of 360 tonnes. The truck will be used to transport coal in an open pit in China's north. “It will be the first shipment to the Chinese market since 2013. If the haul truck does well and performs up to spec, another 13 trucks with the same carrying capacity may be shipped to China. The pause in haul truck deliveries had been caused by the global crisis in the mining industry and the modernization of coal mining enterprises in China,” Zuyenok said. At present China uses 485 BelAZ vehicles: mainly haul trucks with the carrying capacity varying from 30 to 240 tonnes. During the expo in Shanghai BelAZ also signed a memorandum of strategic partnership and cooperation with China's leading engine manufacturing company Weichai Group. The Belarusian company has already made the first haul truck using a Chinese engine and able to carry 90 tonnes. Factory tests of the vehicle will be finished soon. The company intends to use Weichai engines later on to power haul trucks with the carrying capacity of 130 and 220 tonnes. The trucks will be intended for the Chinese market. “We can supply chassis to China in order to allow some manufacturing localization. Plans for full adaptation to requirements of the Chinese market have been made,” said Zuyenok. Based in Zhodino, Minsk Oblast, the public joint-stock company BelAZ is the world's leading manufacturer of haul trucks with a large carrying capacity and an extremely large carrying capacity.
Next year, the BelGee carmaker will increase production to 25,000 cars.
Possible new partners include the Baltic States, Ukraine and Moldova but the target market is Russia. Sergei Rumas, Prime Minister of Belarus said: “Next year, about 70% will be exported, mainly to Russia. As for exports, the Chinese partners are helping us to master this market. 25,000 is a large amount. This is an attainable figure, and the state is taking all measures to help reach these volumes. 25,000 is enough for the company to pay all its liabilities."
9.1.6 Agriculture sector news
Milk production in Belarus exceeds domestic demand more than twice,
Belarus Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Igor Brylo said during the roundtable on food security in Minsk on 14 November, BelTA has learned.
In terms of the per capita production of the absolute majority of agricultural goods Belarus significantly surpasses other CIS countries . For example, last year the per capita production of potatoes in Belarus was 675kg (for comparison: 201kg in Russia, 197kg in Kazakhstan), that of meat – 127kg (71kg in Russia, 56kg in Kazakhstan), and that of milk - 771kg (212kg in Russia, 303kg in Kazakhstan)
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