Dongfeng commercial vehicles in Nigeria's first batch of CKD assembly heavy trucks off the assembly line!

On August 16th, Nigerian time, in a cheering, Dongfeng commercial vehicle in Nigeria's first batch of CKD (full bulk) assembly Dongfeng Tianlong VL heavy truck - Dongfeng Tianjin VR card officially off the assembly line!

More than 300 people including representatives of the Nigerian Ministry of Transport, transportation industry associations, logistics companies, local media, Dongfeng commercial vehicle staff, and factory employees witnessed this important moment.

Offline ceremony

This is a milestone achievement of the Dongfeng commercial vehicle in the development of the Nigerian market. It is also another important measure for Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle's comprehensive layout of the overseas market development strategy to actively respond to the “One Belt, One Road” initiative.

Nigeria is rich in petroleum mineral resources and has the largest port in West Africa. Its unique geographical and resource advantages make it the second largest economy in Africa.

Actively responding to the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, Nigeria also hopes to cooperate with China in many aspects such as infrastructure construction, trade and investment, industrial park construction, agricultural industry cooperation and cultural integration.

Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle's first batch of CKD heavy trucks in Nigeria

Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle accurately captured this good opportunity and set its sights on this market early to develop a practical market development plan.

Global deployment and localized operation are the concepts that Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle has always adhered to.

In 2017, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles sent a group of experienced overseas business development frontline personnel to Nigeria. With its excellent product quality and mature after-sales service system, it quickly found a local network partner with great strength.

Dongfeng commercial vehicle assembly workshop in Nigeria

In order to promote the coordinated development of the two parties, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles has fully utilized the local resource advantages, changed the original export form, and extended the output of simple products to the “technology + product” output of CKD mode, realizing the localized production of Dongfeng commercial vehicles in Nigeria. , laid the foundation for subsequent deep cooperation.

During the high-temperature service inspection period, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle received the technical support of CKD loading technology in Nigeria, and immediately arranged the manufacturing technical team to go to the local area to guide the factory personnel to carry out on-site loading.

Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Technical Support Team and local workers

Local network partners said that the spirit of innovation and hard work of Chinese employees has strengthened their confidence in the future development of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles in Nigeria. (This article is from Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle)