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Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) has said that its total truck exports from India crossed 5,000 mark. This milestone has been achieved in less than three years after the start of exports in 2013.
While DICV has been selling Orgadam-built BharatBenz trucks and buses in the domestic market, it has also been exporting India-built trucks under Fuso brand to Asian and African markets.
The number of markets served includes more than 20 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. More than 10 further markets will be added in the course of this year, Kuwait and Peru were launched recently, according to a company statement.
Marc Llistosella, Head of Daimler Trucks Asia said that Fuso range of trucks, built at the Indian plant, played a major role in developing Daimler Trucks Asia’s Fuso brand business in key growth regions across the globe.
The Fuso range of vehicles currently features four medium-duty (9-16 tonnes) trucks and twelve heavy-duty (16-49 tonnes) trucks, which are developed and rigorously tested to meet the diverse requirements of the target markets. As these products are expanding the Fuso brand’s product line-up in segments that were previously not served, they are opening additional growth opportunities.
“Our successful domestic BharatBenz business is one pillar of DICV’s strategic role, exports of vehicles and production material is another. We are proud of 5,000 trucks produced for FUSO and more than nine million parts exported to other units within Daimler Trucks worldwide – these are the kind of success stories which underline the potentials of Make inIndia,” said Erich Nesselhauf, Managing Director and CEO, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles.
Beyond completely built trucks and parts, DICV has already exported several hundred bus chassis produced at its bus plant, located next to the truck plant on the premises of DICV’s manufacturing complex in Oragadam near Chennai. The company has also been supplying vehicle kits to Kenya for local assembly by a Fuso partner since March 2016 - starting with one 25 tonne truck model, further vehicles from the new robust Fuso range will be added subsequently.
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