July 2, 2014. The commander of Vietnam’s National Defense Ministry’s Engineering Corps took an interest in the vehicles made at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) that were shown to him by Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s Deputy Director-General Valeriy Platonov, ChTZ Director-General Viktor Voropayev, and Tractorozavodsky Technological Park’s Daughter Companies & Affiliates Director Dmitri Shkyrdin during their business trip to Vietnam, the corporation’s press service reports.

The military authorities were shown the entire range of the corporation’s road-building vehicles, including those made at ChTZ, the corporation’s member enterprise. During their second meeting with the ministry’s top officials (the need to have such a meeting was agreed upon in the course of the business visit), the plant representatives will get down to specific details. The military engineers demonstrated being determined and intent upon building up on their cooperation. The tractor manufacturers’ proposals are now being considered by the technical experts from Vietnam’s Defense Ministry.

ChTZ has shipped 23 B12 bulldozers to Vietnam’s Engineering Corps over the last four years. Both parties are willing to and need to go on with the further shipments. Vietnam is developing and trying to help its neighbors by investing in the economies of Laos and Cambodia. Military men are supervising these investment processes, which gives an additional impulse to the negotiation process.

‘We met with Russia’s trade representative in the Republic of Vietnam Nikolai A. Kapustkin during our business trip. He gave us his expert opinion on the Vietnamese road-building vehicle market and on the logistics plans for the development of the road network. It would be no exaggeration to say that these plans are grandiose. The proposed strategy is to restore the Silk Road from Kazakhstan and Vietnam to Singapore,’ Shkyrdin said.