BUSMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* South Africa - Truck market to start recovering in 2010: Mercedes-Benz
Johanesburg,South Africa -Engineering News, by Irma Venter -7 August 2009: ... The bus market provides the only ray of hope in the commercial vehicle segment at the moment, at a 2% negative compared with 2008, this as government is equipping the public transport sector for the 2010 FIFA World Cup... Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) commercial vehicles vicepresident Kobus van Zyl says, on a year-to-date basis, total truck sales are down from 21 884 units in 2008, to the current 11 398 units... Government earlier this year handed MBSA and MAN Truck & Bus the contracts to supply 570 buses to transport spectators, officials and players for the 2010 FIFA World Cup... MBSA will supply 168 semiluxury and 292 intercity buses, and MAN 110 general spectator buses... Bombela, the company building the Gautrain rapid-rail link, and the company which will operate it for 15 years, has also signed a deal with MBSA for the supply of 125 buses which will service the project’s feeder and distribution routes...
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