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Dangote Purchases 800 Trucks From ANAMMCO Assembly Plant
Dangote Nigeria PLC recently acquired 800 of its trucks from ANAMMCO Assembly Plant in Enugu, a local assembly plant in Nigeria.
This is not the first time that Dangote and ANAMMCO will be going into partnership, It will be recalled that in 2017, the group placed an order for about 350 units of Shacman heavy-duty trucks with the brand’s representative and partner in Nigeria, Transit Support Services Limited {TSS}, a subsidiary of ABC Transport Plc, which not only imports the vehicles from China but also assembles same at ANAMMCO in Enugu.
The 350 units were not Dangote’s first mass order, but repeat patronage coming months after about 500 Shacman trucks were assembled for the group by TSS making use of the ANAMMCO plant.
With the latest ordering of 800 new trucks, ANAMMCO and Dangote Group are on a long-term mutual partnership.
Explaining Dangote Group’s choice of Shacman for the refinery and other divisions, a senior manager in the group said the satisfactory execution of the previous order by Transit Support Services Limited, as well as the auto maker’s reputation as the manufacturer of the best heavy-duty trucks in China, were major influencing factors.
The company Registered as Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company Limited (ANAMMCO Limited), the Company was incorporated on January 17, 1977. ANAMMCO Assembly Plant has a production capacity of 7500 trucks and 1000 buses per annum.
The company was incorporated to carry on the business of manufacturing, assembly, importation and sale of CKD sets for Mercedes Benz commercial vehicles, agricultural tractors and passenger cars as well as spare parts. The Memorandum and Article of association of the company empower it to carry out the series of agreements entered into on the establishment of the Commercial Vehicle Assembly/Manufacturing Plant under “The Joint Venture, Manufacturing and Agency Agreements”.
ANAMMCO is located on a 300,000 square meter site located strategically on the airport road at Emene Industrial Layout, Enugu. Its main line of business is assembly and production of Commercial Vehicles – trucks, buses and utility vehicles, from 5 tons payload and above.
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