Volvo lands contracts worth 30 million dollars in Iraq
AFP, October, 2004
STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Swedish truck and construction equipment group Volvo said that it had landed contracts from the US government worth about 30 million dollars (24.4 million euros) to deliver construction equipment to Iraq.
Volvo Construction Equipment has agreed to deliver more than 200 units of construction equipment, including 120 wheel loaders, to the Iraqi government over the next two years to help with the reconstruction of the war-torn country, the company said in a statement.
The equipment will be manufactured and assembled at Volvo plants in Sweden, Canada, Germany, Poland and the United States, and shipped to the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra starting next ...