Business news

5 Oct 2020

BelAZ to ship four more haul trucks to Russian gold mining company

MINSK, 5 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian automobile engineering company BelAZ intends to ship four more haul trucks to the Russian company PAO Susumanzoloto within the next few months, the BelAZ press service told BelTA.

The Belarusian company has already shipped three haul trucks BelAZ-7555B to PAO Susumanzoloto this year. BelAZ intends to ship another four trucks BelAZ-7555N with the carrying capacity of 55 tonnes within the next few months.

BelAZ’s 55-tonne trucks are used to renew the vehicle fleet of Susumanzoloto’s daughter enterprise OOO Sever in Russia’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Susumanzoloto Director General Aleksandr Chugunov noted that the new trucks demonstrate good performance in extremely low air temperatures. OOO Sever operates close to the northern hemisphere’s pole of cold. Susumanzoloto is convinced that the new trucks of the BelAZ-7555 series will increase labor productivity and reduce the cost of gold mining.

PAO Susumanzoloto is Russia’s largest gold-mining holding company. The company operates gold deposits in four districts in Magadan Oblast and in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The company uses nearly 80 BelAZ trucks with the carrying capacity varying from 30 tonnes to 55 tonnes.

The public joint-stock company (OAO) BelAZ is the managing company of the holding company BelAZ. BelAZ is the world's leading manufacturer of haul trucks and transport equipment for mining industry and civil engineering industry. BelAZ accounts for some 30% of the world market of haul trucks with an extremely large carrying capacity. The company makes the world’s largest haul truck with the carrying capacity of 450 tonnes.