Sunday, January 18, 2009

Tropically Tolerant Buses-Sotra

From Reuters:
A newly formed company in Ivory Coast, aims to build buses for West Africa's thronging public transport routes, a company official said on Thursday.
Abidjan Transport Company (Sotra)...its vehicles are designed and built specifically to withstand Africa's potholed roads and extreme weather."First of all we want to meet Abidjan's needs ... but also we want to expand into the regional market. We want to produce vehicles for our neighbours like Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal," said Delmarc Diomande Deli, head of quality control at Sotra. The buses are designed and built in Ivory Coast by Ivorians, Sotra said. Iveco will make the bus chassis and send them to Abidjan for assembly by Sotra...[continue reading]

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1 comments:

Rachel Finn said...

Thank you for calling attention to this. It's good to read things like this.