Bus Trading says major contract to build buses in Kaliningrad is under threat

The agreement between Grupa Zasada and Bus Trading, whereby these companies with Russian Awtotor would assemble up to 1,000 buses per year in Kaliningrad seems to be endangered due to a growing conflict between the parties. "I'm afraid the enterprise may not succeed. Grupa Zasada appears to be losing interest in the project," said Jerzy Borysewicz, president of Bus Trading. He underlined that bus producers belonging to Grupa Zasada, Jelcz and Autosan, had provided neither the necessary facilities for the assembly plant nor any prototype of the buses and trolley-buses to be assembled. Borysewicz also said that his company has already received several orders for the buses and warned that he was considering advising Awtotor to find another partner. Grupa Zasada representatives denied that they would pull out of the deal, saying that the group is working on the project which could be launched in the fourth quarter. (Puls Biznesu, p. 3) M.K.