Samauto aiming to more than double bus production this year
By Jim Gibbins - 1st August 2019
Uzbekistan / Kazakhstan – Samauto* of Samarkand, Uzbekistan is planning to produce some 10,000 buses in 2019, which would be more than double the 4,000 units built in 2018, suggested Serkan Öztürk, export specialist for Samauto at Busworld Central Asia in Almaty, Kazakhstan held at the end of June.
Building on strong growth within Uzbekistan in recent years, particularly in the medium duty bus segment, Öztürk said Samauto planned to further expand its exports business, focusing strongly on sales to other CIS countries. Öztürk acknowledged this was an ambitious goal, but one which it needed to achieve to justify expansion of its manufacturing facilities and building two and a half times the number of vehicles produced last year. According to Öztürk, since 2006, Samauto has exported 850 buses, 200 of those to Kazakhstan since it established dealerships within the country in 2010.
