Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Aug 24 /Trend D.Azizov/
German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has supplied 25 buses to Tashkent, the country's administration told Trend on Friday.
The supply of buses is being carried out as a result of a purchase agreement signed between the Tashgortransservis Association and German EvoBus GmbH Mercedes-Benz (bus division of Daimler-Chrysler).
According to a representative of the city administration, a reception, transmission and presentation of the new Mercedes-Benz Conecto Low Floor model buses which have been built to the Euro-3 standard, was held the previous day.
According to the agreement, the remaining buses will arrive in Tashkent before the end of October.
A renovation project of the passenger transport system in Tashkent, providing for the purchase of 100 new Mercedes-Benz buses for a total of $18.9 million was approved by the decision of President Islam Karimov in January.
Project funding is provided by the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of Uzbekistan.
The first Mercedes-Benz Conecto Low Floor buses of Euro-3 standard appeared in Tashkent in 2008.
Currently 400 Mercedes-Benz low floor buses operate in Tashkent. The purchase of buses for a total of 120 million euros is being carried out through a loan from German banks guaranteed by the government of Uzbekistan. All of these buses with a length of over 12 metres and load capacity of more than eight tons are of the Mercedes-Benz Conecto model.