OREANDA-NEWS. The first conference of OJSC KAMAZ’s official dealers – “Development of Sales and Service of KAMAZ NGVs” – took place in Naberezhnye Chelny. The dealers summed up the results of their work, discussed plans and tasks of the company and its partners for 2013 there.

An opening address was delivered by Evgeniy Pronin, Deputy General Director of OJSC KAMAZ for Sales and Service, who noted that it was necessary to answer the global tendency of growing production of NGVs. Rafael Batyrshin, General Director of OOO RariTEK, KAMAZ’s official distributor of gas-powered vehicles on the premises of which the conference was held, suggested an idea of promoting NGVs through the whole dealership network of KAMAZ. Oleg Ershov, General Director of Leasing Company KAMAZ Inc., told about special offers for leasing of gas-powered NEFAZ buses and KAMAZ vehicles, as well as special equipment for maintenance service of CNG vehicles.

The company awarded the best dealers who excelled in sales and promotion of KAMAZ NGVs in 2012 – OOO Kompaniya URALKAM (Chelyabinsk), OOO Stavropolskiy avtotsentr KAMAZ, and OOO RBA-Rostov (RUSBIZNESAVTO).

The conference gathered representatives of 25 entities of the commodity distribution network from Krasnodar to Kemerovo. The guests were shown the potential and achievements in production, maintenance, and operation of vehicles running on natural gas at the service center of OOO RariTEK. The participants of the conference managed to see the model range of gas-powered KAMAZ vehicles and NEFAZ buses, various systems, components and equipment for vehicles. Besides, the guests were shown unique products of OOO RariTEK-Servis – a mobile automobile service center and a CNG filling station AGNKS BI 100 the use of which enables to halve the cost of methane as a fuel. The dealers highly appreciated the mobile service center which enables to service vehicles with minimal expenses, and, in contrast to stationary service centers, reduce vehicle downtime and idle run.

Summing up the results of the first CNG conference, Evgeniy Pronin noted that promotion of KAMAZ NGVs was one of the company’s strategic goals till 2020. He said that KAMAZ was always ready to help users of CNG KAMAZ vehicles and NEFAZ buses to solve all problems, even if they require support of regional and municipal authorities or JSC GAZPROM.