Montagna speaks Portuguese, English, Russian and Spanish and has almost 10 years of experience in Brazil.

This initiative is part of Scania's short term (2025) global sustainability goals.

New Scania truck rental services adds to growing portfolio of sales and aftermarket servicing offerings from OEMs in South America.

From November 2022 Scania Latin America Ltda oplans to place the Scania P280 gas-powered truck - designed specifically for operations in Brazil’s sugar cane segment - on the market as part of its strategy to offer low carbon solutions in Brazil.

Munhoz will report to Mats Gunnarsson, executive vice president of global commercial operations, who is based at the headquarters in Sweden.

Sílvio Munhoz, Sales Solutions director of Scania do Brasil sets the scene for 2022

Scania has sold 124 R410 CNG trucks to Brazilian haulier, Reiter Transport and Logistics, in a sale worth BRL100m.

JCA Group plans to start testing a Scania K 320 4x2 with a DC09 gas engine on interstate routes from early next year.

With sales of Scania CNG (natural and/or biomethane) trucks heading northwards of 150 units, one operator on its own now accounts for 50 of these sales.

Scania Latin America Ltda in May completed delivery of 562 Scania F340HA 8x2 CNG Euro VI bi-articulated chassis as part of the largest fleet renewal programme at the TransMilenio Integrated Public Transport System in Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia.

Scania Latin America Ltda reported record domestic truck sales growth of 115% for the first six months of 2021 at 7,794 units compared with 3,625 units and sees the strong demand continuing in the second half of the year.  

Scania Latin America Ltda and Comgás, the largest natural gas distributor in Brazil, have announced they are cooperating to initiate several joint actions to accelerate the development of the gas-powered commercial vehicles (natural gas and biomethane) in Brazil.