IKCO cars to modernize Kazakhstan Taxi fleet

IKCO Deputy CEO in Export announced his company's plan of modernizing Kazakhstan taxi fleet, Sunway.

"The negotiations regarding modernizing Kazakhstan taxi fleet which started last year is going to be put into action following the achievement of the Certificate EAC by IKCO (Iran Khodro Company); based on this contract 3000 sets of CNG-sipping Samand taxis will join this fleet," mentioned Saeid Tafazzoli.

IKCO Deputy CEO added, "Compared to other carmakers competing in this market, IKCO has the advantage of producing CNG cars; however, other carmakers present offline CNG cars."

In cooperation with IKCO dealership in the country, Sunway will give the cars to the taxi owners based on a three year repayment leasing contract.

It's worthy of mentioning that Kazakhstan Taxi Organization is obliged to improve and modernize taxis every three years to follow the rules and regulations of the country's environment organization, aiming at reducing environment pollutants.

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