OREANDA-NEWS. May 25, 2009. A delegation from the Republic of Bashkortostan and KAMAZ top managers signed an agreement on cooperation between the Bashkortostan Government and KAMAZ Inc. at their meeting in Naberezhnye Chelny.

Rail Sarbaev, Bashkortostan’s Prime Minister, and Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of KAMAZ Inc., signed the agreement. The contents of this document are to support and develop enterprises of the KAMAZ Group in Bashkortostan - Neftekamsky Automobile Plant and Tuimazy Concrete Delivery Truck Works.

Commenting on the agreement Sergey Kogoghin explained that it would be effective during one year, and its main purpose was crisis management. He also reminded that the Bashkortostan Government and KAMAZ owned control stocks of these two plants in Bashkortostan. The parties jointly participate in strategic management of the enterprises coordinating their actions, and KAMAZ is also responsible for doing business.

“We faced great problems under the crisis conditions, – said Sergey Kogoghin, – especially in operation of Tuimazy Concrete Delivery Truck Works. We developed anti-crisis programs which are successfully being implemented now. First of all we must stimulate still low purchase requirements in order to save the plants. We had lobbied all essential solutions at the Federal Government where they were finally approved. I’m grateful to Rail Sarbaev for Bashkortostan’s assistance due to which 99% of the federal money sent to the republic came to KAMAZ, to the Neftekamsk and Tuimazy plants. It is a very serious support. The signed agreement specifies concrete measures within the frames of joint programs. They particularly stipulate that the Bashkortostan Government will purchase our plants’ production.”

According to Rail Sarbaev, Prime Minister of Bashkortostan, NEFAZ and Tuimazy Concrete Delivery Truck Works are town-forming enterprises, and today’s let-down in their work threatens worse living conditions of Tuimazy population and acute social problems.

“Therefore all the means we dispose of now will certainly be sent to support KAMAZ and Bashkortostan enterprises in the first place, – he said. – On the whole we plan to purchase KAMAZ products to the tune of 1 billion rubles. It concerns tractors produced at KAMAZ too. We intend to order up to 400 tractors a year.”

Sergey Kogoghin added that it was the largest regional government order in Russia so far. Now Tatarstan is approaching this figure too.

The signed agreement has paragraphs on the expected future development of the two KAMAZ single-process-flow plants in Bashkortostan. KAMAZ and the Bashkortostan Government will realize them.