BD to Manufacture CNG Three Wheelers Locally

[eastwatch]

Bangladesh to make CNG three-wheelers

Wednesday, January 5, 2011
BusinessBangladesh to make CNG three-wheelers
Says Barua as he narrates success stories
Star Business Report

The government is set to manufacture CNG three-wheelers through state-run Atlas Bangladesh, said Industries Minister Dilip Barua yesterday.

“We are looking for prospective investors from India and China,” said Barua in his ministry's annual performance report.

“We will implement the plan within the shortest possible time, because we got offers to make three-wheelers locally from leading manufacturers of these two countries.”

The government started a project to assemble sedan car Lancer Ex and Pajero sports vehicle in Bangladesh under a joint venture with Progoti Industries Ltd and Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors.

Mitsubishi will assemble the cars at Progoti's Chittagong plant and already carried out a feasibility study. The Japanese carmaker is currently assembling Pajero Jeep V6 for Bangladesh in a deal with Progoti.

Barua said the adoption of a new industrial policy was a big success of his ministry, which envisions turning the country into a middle-income nation by 2021.

The new policy sets a target to increase the contribution of the industrial sector in GDP to 40 percent, from 28 percent now. “We hope to increase the contribution of the industrial sector to employment generation to be 25 percent from 16 percent,” he said.

Barua said a reduction in fertiliser prices was also a great success of the government. “It played a major role in strengthening the food security,” he said.

Last year, the government successfully tackled demand for fertiliser by ensuring smooth supply, said the minister. There will be no fertiliser crisis during the upcoming crop production season, he claimed.

According to the industries ministry's statistics, the urea demand will be 2.8 million tonnes this year. The government has a stock of 800,000 tonnes and has taken measures to increase the production and import.

The minister said the import of urea from Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia is going on as part of state-to-state deals. Karnaphuli Fertiliser Company Ltd also agreed to sell its production to meet the peak demand.

Although no new industries were set up in the last two years, the ministry played promoted private-sector investment to set up industries, Barua said.

“We've provided adequate logistics and policy support to promote private-sector investment in the industry,” he said.

 

[eastwatch]

Bangladesh to make CNG three-wheelers

Wednesday, January 5, 2011
BusinessBangladesh to make CNG three-wheelers
Says Barua as he narrates success stories
Star Business Report

The government is set to manufacture CNG three-wheelers through state-run Atlas Bangladesh, said Industries Minister Dilip Barua yesterday.

“We are looking for prospective investors from India and China,” said Barua in his ministry's annual performance report.

BD started to import from India its Bajaj-made CNG-run 3-wheelers when BNP was the ruling party. One BNP minister Huda was its monopoly importer. He sold the item @ 500,000 Taka per unit, and became a multi-millionaire.

BNP speaks anti-India but acts pro-India. BNP govt should have asked BAJAJ to manufacture its CNG wheelers in Bangladesh. Only now, the AL govt is askling the same to India and China. I am here to praise this decision.

 

[idune]

BD started to import from India only its Bazaz-made CNG-run 3-wheelers when BNP was the ruling party. One BNP minister Huda was its monopoly importer. He sold the item @ 500,000 Taka per unit, and became a multi-millionaire.

BNP speaks anti-India but acts pro-India. BNP govt should have asked BAZAZ to manufacture its CNG wheelers in Bangladesh. Only now, the AL govt is askling the same to India and China. I am here to praise this decision.

Destroying Bangladesh sovereignty and sacrificing Bangladesh interest which is what Awami League had been doing is not something to compare with alleged corruption of a minister. Importing 3 wheeler does not sacrifice national interest. Besides auto manufacturing is purely business. One has to be shocked with level of desperation to salvage Awami league from stooge identity.

These Auto ventures will not be much successful in govt hand rather let private sector take up these projects. Like Navana motors, Aftab autos, Ifad, Nitol or Pacific motors. Nitol already planning something. Ifad does some kind of assembly Ashok Leland trucks, Aftab auto already does Hino RM-2 bus assembly.

 

[idune]

Nissan vehicles to be assembled locally
Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory, Pacific Motors sign deal

STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Diesel-run light and heavy commercial vehicles of Nissan will be assembled for the first time in the country at Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory, run by the Bangladesh army.
Pacific Motors Limited, sole distributor of Nissan vehicles, signed an agreement with the BMTF on Sunday for assembling 32 vans, which can be used as covered van or human hauler, initially. The PML will also set up within a few days an assembling plant with a capacity to deliver around 3000 vehicles a year at the BMTF’s Gazipur plant, said PML managing director Faisal Morshed Khan at the signing ceremony.

He said initially BMTF would assemble 32 vehicles within 120 days under the current deal and separate agreements would be made in future with BMTF for assembling more vehicles.

The equipments for the plant are expected to arrive in the country from Japan within a day or two, Khan said.‘We are expecting to assemble around 300 to 500 vehicles annually in first three to four years.

Later, our production may go up to 3000 vehicles a year, depending on the demand of the market’, he said.Khan said that the price of the vehicles would be cheaper than other completely built-up vehicles as they wouldimport vehicles in completely knocked down (CKD) and semi knocked down (SKD) conditions for assembling in the country and the labour would be cheap.

Besides, import duty of vehicles in CKD and SKD conditions is friendly.
He, however, said that assembling was not their main focus. ‘We want to manufacture products [vehicles] within a few years and sell those not only in Bangladesh but elsewhere,’ Khan said.
He said that a delegation of Nissan visited recently the BMTF and termed the standard of the factory as same as those in Japan.
Khan said that they would also take initiatives to assemble CNG run buses and trucks at the BMTF for selling those to local transport sector at competitive prices.

‘It is a large market and there is a lot of opportunity,’ he said adding that a large number of vehicles come from India and around 2000 vehicles from Japan annually.For example, he said, a business man alone imports 300 trucks a month from India.

‘The financial deal is yet to be finalised. It will be based on the demand of the user-end,’ said Khan, asked about the deal with BMTF.
BMTF managing director Brigadier General Khan Mohammad Nuruzzaman said that it was the start of a new era for the factory as it would assemble vehicles commercially for the first time.
He said that after the government handed over the factory, which was sick and loss making, to Bangladesh Army in 2000, it has so far assembled and made bodies of army vehicles, produced line hardware for Rural Electrification Board and Power Development Board and accessories for government and private industries.
‘This is for the first time we are going for commercial assembling of vehicles for private sector.

We have the skilled manpower, establishment, machinery and necessary infrastructure,’ he said.

Nuruzzaman said that they have a capacity to assemble three three-tonne army truck in a single shift of a day.He said that they would make a delivery of a Nissan van within next seven to 10 days after assembling.

An official of BMTF said that they had assembled around 1000 three-tonne army truck over the last three to four years.

http://www.newagebd.com/2005/feb/28/busi.html

 

[eastwatch]

Nissan vehicles to be assembled locally
Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory, Pacific Motors sign deal

STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Diesel-run light and heavy commercial vehicles of Nissan will be assembled for the first time in the country at Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory, run by the Bangladesh army.
Pacific Motors Limited, sole distributor of Nissan vehicles, signed an agreement with the BMTF on Sunday for assembling 32 vans, which can be used as covered van or human hauler, initially. The PML will also set up within a few days an assembling plant with a capacity to deliver around 3000 vehicles a year at the BMTF’s Gazipur plant, said PML managing director Faisal Morshed Khan at the signing ceremony.

He said initially BMTF would assemble 32 vehicles within 120 days under the current deal and separate agreements would be made in future with BMTF for assembling more vehicles.

The equipments for the plant are expected to arrive in the country from Japan within a day or two, Khan said.‘We are expecting to assemble around 300 to 500 vehicles annually in first three to four years.

Later, our production may go up to 3000 vehicles a year, depending on the demand of the market’, he said.Khan said that the price of the vehicles would be cheaper than other completely built-up vehicles as they wouldimport vehicles in completely knocked down (CKD) and semi knocked down (SKD) conditions for assembling in the country and the labour would be cheap.

Besides, import duty of vehicles in CKD and SKD conditions is friendly.
He, however, said that assembling was not their main focus. ‘We want to manufacture products [vehicles] within a few years and sell those not only in Bangladesh but elsewhere,’ Khan said.
He said that a delegation of Nissan visited recently the BMTF and termed the standard of the factory as same as those in Japan.
Khan said that they would also take initiatives to assemble CNG run buses and trucks at the BMTF for selling those to local transport sector at competitive prices.

‘It is a large market and there is a lot of opportunity,’ he said adding that a large number of vehicles come from India and around 2000 vehicles from Japan annually.For example, he said, a business man alone imports 300 trucks a month from India.

‘The financial deal is yet to be finalised. It will be based on the demand of the user-end,’ said Khan, asked about the deal with BMTF.
BMTF managing director Brigadier General Khan Mohammad Nuruzzaman said that it was the start of a new era for the factory as it would assemble vehicles commercially for the first time.
He said that after the government handed over the factory, which was sick and loss making, to Bangladesh Army in 2000, it has so far assembled and made bodies of army vehicles, produced line hardware for Rural Electrification Board and Power Development Board and accessories for government and private industries.
‘This is for the first time we are going for commercial assembling of vehicles for private sector.

We have the skilled manpower, establishment, machinery and necessary infrastructure,’ he said.

Nuruzzaman said that they have a capacity to assemble three three-tonne army truck in a single shift of a day.He said that they would make a delivery of a Nissan van within next seven to 10 days after assembling.

An official of BMTF said that they had assembled around 1000 three-tonne army truck over the last three to four years.

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Why do you make fool of yourself by posting a 6 year old news printed the daily New Age?

 

[idune]

Why do you make fool of yourself by posting a 6 year old news printed the daily New Age?

I am not big fan of what BNP did in many respect but I am showing fool like you how wrong you are on your following statement.

eastwatch said:

"BD started to import from India only its Bazaz-made CNG-run 3-wheelers when BNP was the ruling party. One BNP minister Huda was its monopoly importer. He sold the item @ 500,000 Taka per unit, and became a multi-millionaire.

BNP speaks anti-India but acts pro-India. BNP govt should have asked BAZAZ to manufacture its CNG wheelers in Bangladesh. Only now, the AL govt is askling the same to India and China. I am here to praise this decision."

 

[eastwatch]

I am not big fan of what BNP did in many respect but I am showing fool like you how wrong you are on your following statement.

Learn some basic manners before you answer my posts. And do not make personal attack. Show your maturity, instead. Your excuse in the above post is not acceptable.

 

[babanomi]

BD started to import from India only its Bazaz-made CNG-run 3-wheelers when BNP was the ruling party. One BNP minister Huda was its monopoly importer. He sold the item @ 500,000 Taka per unit, and became a multi-millionaire.

BNP speaks anti-India but acts pro-India. BNP govt should have asked BAZAZ to manufacture its CNG wheelers in Bangladesh. Only now, the AL govt is askling the same to India and China. I am here to praise this decision.

u meant BAJAJ right...??

 

[jha]

BAJAJ should be a world leader in 3 wheeler..It has swarmed the indian roads ..
Lately Mahindra and APE have also started picking up sales...

Best option would be to form a JV with BAJAJ ala Maruti-Suzuki and manufacture it locally. However it depends on the policy of present as well as coming government..

 

[hillman32]

I wish all the best to BD brothers and sisters.

I am sure they will grow up into a power in order to share the responsibility with Pakistan in keeping India within limits so that all smaller Countries could live independently n honorably.

 

[PRACTICAL PATRIOT]

I wish all the best to BD brothers and sisters.

I am sure they will grow up into a power in order to share the responsibility with Pakistan in keeping India within limits so that all smaller Countries could live independently n honorably.

some people dont just leave a single chance to express their insecurity.

btw if you havent noticed in article the BD is seeking partners for this project from INDIA and china. so its allowing INDIAN business expansion in bangladesh rather than containing INDIA.

 

[takeiteasy]

In India during the 60's to 80's public limited companies like KEL ,ALLWYN manufactured auto rickshaws before Bajaj monopolized the 3 wheeler taxi market.

even scootters like Lambretta(now collectors item) were made and sold by public limited companies who bought dyes from Innocenti,Italy to cater Indian Buyers..during the end 50's to 80s

It can be a good Idea for Bangladesh to invest in a public limited company formed with know-how shared from known 3 wheeler companies(like Piaggio,Bajaj etc)

 

[idune]

Learn some basic manners before you answer my posts. And do not make personal attack. Show your maturity, instead. Your excuse in the above post is not acceptable.

Shouldn't you be telling that to yourself first?? See what you posted befor. Your playing innocent game is too old now, give it up.

Why do you make fool of yourself by posting a 6 year old news printed the daily New Age?