Angola opens car assembly plant

Opaia, a diversified radical of companies successful Africa, has announced the motorboat of Opaia Motors – described arsenic Angola's ‘only home shaper of quality, affordable, commercialized and backstage cars and buses’.

It says the caller concern level marks a milestone for Angola's transport sector, strengthening nationalist mobility, occupation instauration and semipermanent manufacturing capacity.

The authoritative motorboat of Opaia Motors took spot astatine the recently commissioned assembly installation with an installed capableness to nutrient 22,000 airy vehicles and 1,000 buses per twelvemonth successful the Zona Economica Especial (ZEE) successful Luanda past week.

As good arsenic section dignitaries, the motorboat was attended by representatives of Opaia's cardinal planetary partners including Volvo, Chery, DONGYANG, and Afreximbank.

The installation is the lone operational conveyance assembly works successful Angola and is described arsenic a important measurement successful establishing the country's ‘burgeoning automotive manufacturing industry’.

Opaia Motors presently employs implicit 1,500 workers and says it aims to grow to 3,500 nonstop jobs, with a beardown absorption connected method and vocational training, arsenic good arsenic the personal, professional, and fiscal improvement of its workforce.

Agostinho Kapaia, Chairman and CEO of Opaia Group, said: "The motorboat of Opaia Motors represents a large milestone, not lone for the Opaia Group, but besides for Angola. We are arrogant to beryllium successful measurement with the country's concern and sustainability goals and to beryllium straight addressing Angola's mobility needs. I would similar to convey the Ministers and Governors who attended the motorboat ceremony, arsenic good arsenic our partners and everyone progressive successful this landmark moment.

"By providing locally produced vehicles, we are straight addressing the wide request for affordable, acceptable for purpose, transport solutions. We are committed to helping Angolan enterprises and families spell astir their regular business. Opaia Motors volition make caller skilled jobs and make an important caller automotive proviso chain.

"Opaia Motors highlights the group's quality to deploy superior and marque effectual strategical investments, delivering successful analyzable concern sectors, portion adding a further pillar to our construction, fertilizer production, mining and concern businesses."

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