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In 2000, a joint Egyptian-Russian company was created to produce
new Russian land-rovers on the basis of the technologies of the
Ulyanovsk vehicle plant. Its authorized capital is 50 million Egyptian
pounds. Amal Foreign Trade Company and Lada's parent company
AvtoVAZ signed a joint venture agreement to assemble Ladas for the
North African market in 2000. However, as they did not have their
own factory, space was found at a local Suzuki plant in Cairo to assemble
the 2107 version of the Lada Riva. In 2006, production continued
at Suzuki with an additional model, 2110, being produced.
The contract between AvtoVAZ and Amal Foreign Trade Co. to
supply VAZ-2107 car parts for assembly in Egypt was signed in
May 2001. It was expected that cars assembled by Lada-Egypt
would be sold not only in Egypt, but in other African countries.
Now Lada Egypt Motor Vehicles Industry&Assembly is a rapidly
developing business. The global crisis unexpectedly revived interest
in inexpensive and economical cars like Lada the world over.
Later, in 2005, a joint car assembly plant owned by the Volga
Automobile Plant (AvtoVAZ) and the Egyptian firm Amal Foreign
Trade Co opened in the 10th of Ramadan City. The Lada-Egypt factory
started assembling VAZ-2110 cars from parts supplied by the
Volga Automobile Plant.
In 2009-2010, about 2,000 Russian cars were assembled annually.
The first shipment of VAZ-2107 parts was sent from Togliatti
to Egypt. In the future, once VAZ models have been modernized,
the number of sets of parts to be shipped to Egypt will increase to
5,000 per year.
In 2007, a Lada Servicing Station was launched in Alexandria.
Until then, there was only one Lada service centre in Egypt in Cairo.
However, that usually did not create much of a problem with spare
parts and servicing, since the local Egyptian Nasr car is, like Lada,
based on the Fiat prototype. Local owners often had used Nasr service
stations and spare parts if necessary. The new business concept
of the Russian auto producer envisages more direct services for
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