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Nissan Launches Carmaker in St. Petersburg Late 2009
First facilities of Nissan plant in St. Petersburg will be put into operation in late 2009; the annual output will reach 50,000, Nissan Manufacturing Rus Executive Fujio Hosaka said at today’s AutoRussia-2007 conference.
The plans are to begin with one model of Nissan and expand to three or four models, the Nissan official specified. First facilities will be making cars for domestic sales, but the company will consider foreign deliveries in future.
Nissan will have painting shops, final assembly shops, a body shop and a warehouse in St. Petersburg. No localization of spares’ production will happen in the near future. We will be importing all parts, Hosaka pointed out.
General Motors will also have own production facilities in St. Petersburg. The actual launch is slated for November 2008 and the purpose is to reach annual output of 60,000. General Motors will begin with Chevrolet Captivas and add S-class sedans in the second quarter of 2010.
St. Petersburg Shushary is the whereabouts of GM plant in Russia; the project production area reaches 94 hectares and the budget is estimated at $303 million.
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Photo: Sergey Mikheev