Russia’s GAZ major carmarker has launched a JV with Turkey’s Mersa Otomotiv and announced the sales of light commercial vehicles in Turkey, .
According to the Voice of Russia, the launching ceremony was held in the Turkish province of Sakarya Sunday.
The Venture expects to sell some 2,500 vehicles in 2013 and pledges attractive prices of $20,000 per vehicle.
Voice of Russia
via Russian carmaker to assemble in Turkey: Voice of Russia.
The world’s largest bicycle manufacturer, Giant, is taking emergency measures to increase the bicycle supply to Japan.
Japan is a world-renowned producer of cars, but people are turning to bicycles because petrol shortages and damaged roads have rendered cars all but useless in the area worst-affected by the tsunami.
Giant sells approximately 1 million bicycles to Japan a year, roughly one in ten of all cycles imported by the country and the company expects the current spike in demand to have a knock-on effect in other markets.
A spokesperson for the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) said: “Bicycles provide a reliable and cheap means of transport, which continues to work inspite of impassable roads and chronic shortages of petrol.”
It is easy for cyclists in Europe spoilt by a choice of exotic frame materials, specialist tyre compounds and computerized accessories to forget that bicycles are for millions of people around the world a cheap and practically maintenance-free means of carrying as much as fits in the boot of a car.
The charity Re-cycle sends secondhand bikes from this country to Africa where they become a much-valued means of transport for children, who would otherwise walk up to 9 miles each way to school; medical personnel; mothers and farm workers amongst others.
www.eta.co.uk
