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Volvo to assemble buses in R180m Cape Town deal locally

12th June 2013

By: Irma Venter

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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Volvo Southern Africa has won a R180-million contract to supply Cape Town’s N2 MyCiTi Express Service with 40 buses.

Volvo Southern Africa bus division GM Marius Botha says the buses will be used to link Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain with the Cape Town city centre.

The completely knock-down bus kits, comprising twenty 12 m units and twenty 18 m articulated buses, will be sourced from the Volvo chassis plant in Boras, Sweden.

Local chassis assembly will take place at Volvo Southern Africa’s Amanzimtoti assembly plant, in KwaZulu-Natal.

“The tender requirements are that the bodywork has a minimum of 80% local content and that the chassis be assembled locally,” notes Botha.

He says the first the 12-m-long low-floor units will be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year, with the articulated units to be delivered in the first quarter next year.

The bus bodies will be supplied by Busmark.

The contract includes the supply of the buses, as well as staff training and maintenance.

Volvo Southern Africa is actively seeking more business in the region, and has also tendered for the supply of high floor bus-rapid transport (BRT) buses for the City of Cape Town, as well as the supply of low-floor BRT buses for the Tshwane system, currently under construction.

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