OREANDA-NEWS. April 13, 2010. OJSC KAMAZ participated in the International Security National and Resilience Exhibition (ISNR-2010) which was held in Abu Dhabi (the UAE).

The exposition of OJSC KAMAZ was demonstrated at this exhibition for the first time. Potential business partners and would-be users saw models of special equipment assembled with due account taken of the regional users’ needs.

One of these models is KAMAZ-6460 long-haul tractor (6x4) with a drawbar load of 17 tonnes and a permissible gross weight of 46 tonnes (the train with a semitrailer). This vehicle is meant for transportation of various goods as a part of the linehaul train on arterial highways. KAMAZ-6460 has got a comfortable cab with an enhanced design. The construction of the vehicle enabling the application of both domestic and imported units and assemblies ensures compliance with the current international legislation applying to vehicles of this class and purpose.

The visitors of the exhibition saw a modernized vehicle on KAMAZ-53229 chassis (6x4). The presented model of KAMAZ-53229 is equipped with an armored cab and a van. Armoring of the vehicle corresponds to B6 NATO Protection Class and effectively protects from fire of automatic weapons of Kalashnikov-type and sniper rifles (e.g. SVD). The vehicle is intended for transportation of money, values and personnel, and now it is widely used by banks and protection companies in Afghanistan and high-tension and combat operations regions.

Also a modernized vehicle on KAMAZ-53606 (4x2) chassis with a covered body was demonstrated at the exposition of KAMAZ production. This model is well-known to customers and is used as the basis for design of tens of other special equipment types. To date the construction has been modernized in accordance with current technical and environmental requirements.

The presentation of the opening ceremony of KAMAZ’s new service center in Abu Dhabi was held within the bounds of the exhibition. High guests from governing bodies of the UAE and neighbouring countries visited the event. The receiving state was represented by Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, UAE Armed Forces Chief Staff Lt. General Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithi, and His Majesty Sheikh Saif bin Zayed al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Interior. Besides the above mentioned persons, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed, Sudanese Interior Minister, and Sayyid Saud bin Ibrahim al Busaidi, Omani Interior Minister, as well as the representatives of Automobile Ghantoot Group – the official dealer of OJSC KAMAZ in Abu Dhabi and KAMAZ INT’L TRADING FZE – the general distributor of OJSC KAMAZ in the Middle East and North Africa were present at the ceremony.

OJSC KAMAZ was represented by Akhat Urmanov, Deputy Director General of OJSC KAMAZ of Sales and Service and Ashot Arutyunyan, Director of Marketing and Advertizing of OJSC KAMAZ.

According to His Majesty Sheikh Saif bin Zayed al Nahyan, he knows KAMAZ very well, highly appreciates appreciates qualities of sports vehicles of the KAMAZ-master team and wold like to personally test-drive them.

The representatives of OJSC KAMAZ and the UAE governing bodies cut the ribbon opening the new service center, and then the Russian delegation presented a controllable model of a KAMAZ vehicle to the new partners.