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Cement plant to get Pakistan’s first BelAZ truck from Belarus

Image courtesy of the twitter account of the Embassy of Belarus in Pakistan

MINSK, 25 March (BelTA) – Pakistan’s first haul truck made by the Belarusian company BelAZ will be commissioned by a cement plant in Cherat, BelTA has learned.

The vehicle will be solemnly inaugurated on 26 March. This vehicle represents a technological contribution of Belarus to Pakistan’s industry, representatives of the Embassy of Belarus in Pakistan believe.

The vehicle will be delivered by the Pakistani company Greaves.

Based in Zhodino, Minsk Oblast, the public joint-stock company (OAO) BelAZ is the world’s leading manufacturer of haul trucks with a large carrying capacity and an extremely large carrying capacity. The company also makes other kinds of heavy transport vehicles for the mining industry and the civil engineering industry.

In 2018 BelAZ exported the bulk of its output to Russia (58.4%) and other CIS states (27.5%). The top non-CIS buyers are located in Indonesia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Estonia.

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