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Kremenchuk Automobile Assembling Plant Ltd. (Poltava oblast), which is part of AIS group, will resume production of Chinese-designed FAW trucks from April 2011, said the company’s director Mykola Chernysh. According to him, the company plans to assemble around 500 such vehicles this year. “We have purchased the first batch of components. We will assemble the first samples for testing and certification. We expect the first sales of FAW trucks to occur as soon as the late April-early May,” he said. Chernysh added that production of trucks at the plant was stopped in 2008 because of decreased demand for such products and pricing disputes between FAW and the Ukrainian enterprise. 

Lviv Bus Plant Ltd. (LAZ) transferred 27 buses to Macedonia in accordance with the contract with the country’s capital Skopje. “The first 15 buses already ride the roads of Macedonia, confirming the fact that Ukraine won the tender because of the high quality of its product,” journalists were told by Aco Spasenoski, Macedonian Ambassador to Ukraine. According to him, the Lviv-made buses meet European standards. The ambassador also suggested that owing to its cooperation with Macedonia, LAZ will be able to sell its products in other Balkan countries. At the same time, the Director General of LAZ Ihor Malets said the company will participate in tenders for the purchase of trolley buses that are to be assembled in Macedonia. By the end of the year LAZ shall produce and transfer to Macedonia 84 city buses. The contract is worth approximately 10 million euros.