OREANDA-NEWS. June 16, 2010. OJSC KAMAZ and its affiliate OAO NEFAZ are again among Russia’s best exporters according to the last year results.

This news was announced by the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade supporting export of industrial products and conducting the annual All-Russian contest for the title “The Best Russian Exporter” in 16 main industries in three nominations – “Best Exporter of Industry”, “Best Exporter of Industry to the CIS Countries” and “Most Quickly Developing Exporter of Industry”.

Again, already for the 11th time in succession, OJSC KAMAZ won in the first of the above mentioned nominations in the “Mechanical Engineering” industry, and its daughter enterprise from Bashkortostan producing specialized equipment and buses on KAMAZ chassis became the most successful machine-building enterprise exporting its products to the CIS countries.

In 2009 OJSC KAMAZ sold over 3.9 thousand KAMAZ trucks and spare parts for them to the tune of 1 billion 354 million roubles to 42 foreign countries. Even when the crisis first of all affected the work of automotive enterprises KAMAZ managed to hold its positions as the leader in the Russian machine building production export and even increase its share on the main foreign markets. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine are among the top three countries by purchase amount of KAMAZ production. Delivery of a large batch of trucks (400 units) to Yemen should be mentioned here.

On the whole, by all activities in 2009, KAMAZ won in the All-Russian contest “Company of the Year” among the Russian machine building enterprises.

The RF Ministry of Industry and Trade also announced that the award presentation ceremony would take place in the cultural center of the Chief Directorate for Service of the Diplomatic Corps under the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 1, 2010.