KAMAZ has won the regional stage of the All-Russian Award “Exporter of the Year-2021” competition. The award ceremony took place in Kazan.
KAMAZ PTC has been participating in the competition since 1999, becoming the winner in its nomination every year. This year, as part of the regional stage of the competition, the company took first place in the category “High-Tech, Large Business” in the Volga Federal District. KAMAZ took second place among all Russian companies. The award ceremony will take place in Moscow on December 10.
The top Russian truck manufacturer exports its products to more than 50 countries of the CIS, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Latin America. In 2020, KAMAZ exported 4,359 vehicles, KAMAZ CKD and SKD kits for the sum of over 12.8 billion rubles, as well as spare parts for KAMAZ vehicles to the tune of over 2.5 billion rubles. KAMAZ’s key export markets were Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan.
The “Exporter of the Year” award was established by the Government of the Russian Federation and is one of the objectives under the “International Cooperation and Export” national project, which was developed pursuant to the Presidential Decree “On the national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024”.
The competition is held among large companies, small and medium-sized businesses and individual entrepreneurs who have achieved the greatest success in exporting non-resource non-energy goods, works, services, as well as the results of intellectual activity. Every year the number of applications for the all-Russian award is growing. This year saw 1.8 thousand applications. The competition is held in two stages. The first stage is regional to determine the winners and prizewinners in each of the federal districts. The companies ranking first in each nomination go to the second stage – on the federal level.