Following an agreement signed between General Motors and Russian vehicle maker Gaz at the beginning of 2011, the companies have officially rolled their first Chevrolet Aveo off the line this week at the Gaz assembly plant in Nizhny Novgorod.
Assembly is being carried out from complete knockdown (CKD) kits shipped from GM Korea by Maersk to the Ust-Luga Container Terminal near St Petersburg. As Automotive Logistics News reported in January, transport of the containerised kits from there is being handled by Ruscon, the Russian logistics and intermodal operator subsidiary of Global Container Service, which is providing a block train service (read more here).
