RusAutoNews.Com – UAZ has started automobile exports to Ecuador. Ulyanovsk Car Factory UAZ has become the first ever Russian company to export automobiles to the Republic of Ecuador, with Patriot and Pickup models, reported the press office of UAZ.
The distribution contract for the first 150 automobiles to be exported to Ecuador had been signed between UAZ and its local partner at the end of 2016. The first party of vehicles is currently on the ocean, being transported.
“Ecuador is not the largest market in Latin America in terms of volume for UAZ, however, we expect to deliver between 300 and 500 automobiles to the country with the support of our local partner. In the medium term, we expect to sell 3000 to 5000 UAZ SUVs throughout Latin America, increasing export volumes by 25-40% annually” – as stated by Andrei Dorofeev, who is the responsibel person for automobile exports to Ecuador.
Ulyanovsk Car Factory currently has similar distribution contracts with local partners at Bolivia, Haiti, Nicaragua, Mexico and Paraguay.
Vehicle fleet supplies to the government of Freedom Island are also being made from time to time. UAZ has plans to complete contracts with new partners from Venezuela, Honduras, Colombia, Panama and Chile in the near future.
