The Ukrainian company “Etalon” signed a dealership agreement on the supply of tourist buses Etalon A084 to Poland.
As the President of the Corporation Vladimir Butko told the publication “Center for transport strategies”, currently the bus A084 “Tulip” udergoes certification. After that it is planned to sell buses to other Eastern European countries — Bulgaria, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
According to Vladimir Butko, it is planned to deliver at least 50 buses to Poland this year.
“We have developed an inter-city bus that meets the Euro-6 standard. We have been certifying it in Spain for a year. We have passed almost all the tests, and presumably in April we will get a certificate for the bus,” he said.
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Bus A084 “Tulip” is a new development of Chernihiv automobile plant. The bus can be used for tourist trips and regular inter-city routes. Bus body is the development of the Research Institute of Automotive Industryof the LLC “Chernihiv Automobile Plant”. Chassis - DAF LF. A bus is equipped with a 4.5 liter turbo-diesel engine PACCAR PX-5, 213 horsepower and a manual 6-speed gearbox ZF. The length of a bus is 10 meters, there are 37 seats in it.
Chernihiv Automobile Plant is one of the youngest Ukrainian bus companies in Ukraine and is located in Chernihiv. It is founded in 2003 on the basis of the enterprise “Chernihiv Avtodetal”. It is now a part of Etalon Corporation. The first bus of the CAP had seen the road on September 19, 2003.
Earlier it was reported that the EIB project will renew public transport in major cities of Ukraine.