ASTANA, Kazakhstan, January 25. Kazakhstan's car production plants Hyundai Trans Kazakhstan and Hyundai Trans Almaty (subsidiaries of Astana Motors) produced 48,857 passenger cars in 2023, said the founder of Astana Motors Nurlan Smagulov, Trend reports.
He made the remark during a meeting with the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Nurlan Smagulov noted that last year 981 units of commercial vehicles were also produced.
At the same time, companies within Astana Motors paid taxes, duties, fees and other obligatory payments to the local and republican budgets in the amount of 140 billion tenge (about $312 million) for 2023. Today, Astana Motors' companies employ 6,489 people, of which 1,615 people work in production.
Meanwhile, 12,961 units of vehicles were produced in Kazakhstan in November 2023, with a total value of 162.1 billion tenge (about $352.7). This is 15.6 percent more than the same period in 2022 (11,216 units and 132.2 billion tenge, or about $287 million).
At the same time, in total, based on the results of eleven months, 136,909 units of vehicles of all types were produced in Kazakhstan worth over 1.65 trillion tenge (about $3.6 billion), which is 37.4 percent more than in the same period in 2022.