Scania delivering 250 coaches to Angola
Scania has completed its largest bus and coach transaction to date in Angola, selling 250 intercity coaches. The coaches will provide service between major cities and play a key role in improving the efficiency of scheduled transport in Angola. The decisive factor behind choosing Scania was strong confidence in the company as a supplier of a complete transport solution.
“We see a big market potential for Scania in Angola, and this sale is proof of it,” says Mathias Carlbaum, Sales and Marketing Director at Scania Latin America. “Our aim is to increase Scania’s presence in the country both in the bus-coach and truck segments as well as service.”
The purchaser of the 250 coaches is GTD Goods, a Portuguese company in the Espirito Santo Group that has been operating in Angola since 1993 and is responsible for financing the buses to the final users.
According to GTD Goods, the key to the transaction is the company’s great confidence in Scania as a long-term partner and supplier of a complete transport solution, including coaches adapted for the tough conditions prevailing in Angola.
The coaches will be produced at Scania’s plant in Brazil and bodyworked by the Brazilian company Comil. Deliveries will take place during the first half of 2009.
Angola is currently undergoing major investments to build up the country, in which the expansion of infrastructure will play an important role. To strengthen domestic transport, expansion of scheduled intercity services using safer, more comfortable coaches is now under way.
All the coaches will be built using Scania’s robust F330 chassis featuring a front-mounted engine. With its generous ground clearance, the F330 is specially adapted to the demanding conditions prevailing in many markets in Latin America and Africa. The twin-axle coaches has a length of 12,5 metres land accommodates 49 seated passengers. They will be equipped with Scania’s 11-litre, 330 hp engine.
For further information, please contact: Gunnar Boman, Corporate Relations, tel +46 8 553 89510.
Scania is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. A growing proportion of the company’s operations consists of products and services in the financial and service sectors, assuring Scania customers of cost-effective transport solutions and maximum uptime. Employing 35,000 people, Scania operates in about 100 countries. Research and development activities are concentrated in Sweden, while production takes place in Europe and South America, with facilities for global interchange of both components and complete vehicles.
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