Truck deals as Shacman GM, TSS tours Dangote refinery

Shacman Trucks GM and Transit Support Services Ltd (TSS); assemblers of the brand in Nigeria with its officials visited the Dangote group; the biggest and most consistent buyer of trucks brand in the country. It also undertook a tour to the refinery at Ibeju-Lekki, a business district of Lagos. This follows the visit of Tian Chao, the general manager of Shaanxi Heavy Duty Automobile Import & Export Co. Ltd who was an official visit to the Nigerian market.

Tian expressed happiness that over 400 units of SHACMAN trucks were deployed in the refinery construction where they proved their ruggedness and reliability.

He commended Dangote group for their trust and support for the brand saying that Shaanxi Automobile will also provide an overall solution based services on the whole product life cycle and the whole process of customer operation.

The general maager assured that Shacman would continue to do its best in contributing to the refinery project by providing quality and affordable vehicles to support the smooth completion of the project”
“We will join forces with TSS to continue to do a better job in after-sales service and parts support, and innovate business model to create greater value for our customers” Tian said.

On his part, Abdul Dantata, executive director in charge of logistics and distribution, Dangote Group, welcomed the officials of Shacman and TSS and thanked them for the visit and assured them that the group would continue to patronise the truck brand.

“Patronage of Shacman trucks was based on their quality, we hope it will continue and you will continue to give us the best, we will continue to give more business support to the brand. Being in the middle between Shacman and Dangote group, TSS have given much support to both companies, hence we will continue to patronize the brand” He said.

Thanking Abdul Dantata, executive director of Dangore group for the warm reception, Frank Nneji, chairman of TSS a subsidiary of ABC Transport plc, said that  TSS e will continue to give all the support the is required.

Nneji said Shacman believes that the business does not end with selling the trucks, rather it continues with following the trucks through its life span and we will continue to respond very swiftly to calls with to its support even at very short notices.

Shacman GM promised to consistently support TSS to provide more quality services to the customers and assured that TSS engineers will continue to be trained on the products; he also said that more units of trucks and spare parts will be available in Nigeria for a good price advantage to customers.

‘’Now customers won’t have to wait for months to get their orders and they will no longer patronize fake spare parts dealers. Plans are also on-going between the two organisations to build a CKD assembling plant in Nigeria’’. He said.

Being the biggest customer, Dangote Group has since the entrance of the brand into the market through TSS Limited afive years ago bought over 2,000 units of the brand. It recently placed an order for about 350 units assembled at the ANAMMCO plant in Enugu. Its heavy and medium duty trucks and road tractors are one of the biggest trucks manufacturing company in China.

 

MIKE OCHONMA