VEHICLE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

Khalifa Industrial Port

EXPORTSVehicles exported from Ashok Leyland, Ras al Khaimah in the UAE to Peru, Chile, Russia, Ukraine, Africa, Gulf States

Ashok Leyland has a bus factory in RAK in the UAE that currently produces 24 vehicles per day, of which nearly 50 per cent of its output is headed for export markets, including as far afield as Peru and Chile. Kits have also been shipped out to Russia and Ukraine, while the other Gulf markets and parts of Africa are also importing.

IMPORTSVehicle imports to Khalifa Industrial Port for Domestic Capital Group Al Futtaim Motors (UAE)

Honda AccordLexusNissanToyota CamryToyota Land Cruiser and LexusToyota Yaris

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VEHICLES SOLD DOMESTICALLY IN SAUDI ARABIA

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The oldest international auto company to have an assembly plant in the GCC is the Mercedes-Benz NAI plant in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which is Mercedes' largest Middle East production facility. The venture produces some 8,000 heavy-duty commercial trucks a year for a domestic market growing in line with Saudi infrastructure developments and expanding construction activity.The plant had produced 75000 vehicles over the course of several decades as of 2010. Truck part kits are supplied by the CKD-Center at the Mercedes-Benz Wörth plant in Germany.

Renault and Volvo opened a joint facilityfor truck production that started operationsin 2015/2016 in King Abdullah EconomicCity (KAEC), Saudi Arabia.

Japanese auto company Isuzu opened a plant in Dammam 2nd Industrial City, Saudi Arabia in 2012. As of 2017, they were producing about 1,800 trucks a year, despite initial plans in 2012 to produce 25,000 trucks a year by 2017 with ambitions to export 40% in and around the region. Parts are supplied by Isuzu plants in Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and China.

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