Tatra will produce a special chassis for military vehicles Egyptian and Jordanian armies.
Kopřivnická the trucks will deliver for both the Egyptian and the Jordanian army. For both countries, delivers hundreds of special chassis for military vehicles, the value of all contracts is around 800 million crowns.
“We are already launching supplies about 130 chassis to Egypt and we are discussing the delivery of another 220 units.
We are more or less appointed, just everything we need to get more into the contract,” says the head of the Board of Tatra Petr Rusek. The new contracts negotiated the mission of the Minister of Industry and Trade Jan Mládek and the Chamber just to Egypt and Jordan.
In Jordan, in turn, has appointed 50 special import chassis on which a local company KADDB builds its own military vehicle. “It’s the second batch, we have already exported about them here 80. And we hope that cooperation will continue,” Rusek said.
The reputation of the Tatras and speaks Czech ambassador in Amman, Jordan Petr Hladik. “Cars from Tatra were even the first thing to me when passing credentials Jordanian king mentioned,” he says that the Tatra Jordanian King boasted even visiting Saudi prince.
Tatra as new orders continued its upward trend. Company, which three years ago ended in bankruptcy, bought duo entrepreneurs Jaroslav Strnad and René Matera.
Takeover and subsequent start-up businesses for them just drove Rusek. Strnad group at the end of last week announced that it buys and tries to save the Prague Avia , another traditional truck manufacturer.
A Tatra, a firm that even in 2012, underwent almost one billion crowns, after adjusting for debt earns its owners well.
Just give 390 million for 2015, both owners cover all costs of purchase and start-famous automakers. The company’s wagons and bogies exports from New Zealand over India and Saudi Arabia to Western Europe.