Scania, Europe’s third-biggest truck maker, said on Monday it had sold 533 trucks to the Dutch army, its biggest military order outside Sweden, for an undisclosed sum, according to Reuters.
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The Swedish group reportedly said it won the contract to supply the four-axle, specially modified eight-wheeled trucks, through its wholly owned Dutch unit Beers Bedrijfsauto b.v., against what is said was fierce competition from Europe’s leading truck makers.
Delivery of the vehicles will start in 2004 and be completed by 2006, Reuters said.
A Scania spokesman told the news agency its buses sold for around one million crowns ($US131,500) each but with the special modifications and dimensions, that figure could not be used as a benchmark for the military contract.
“The sum allocated by the Dutch government to the army for the total project is €172.5 million but that’s not the value of the contract for Scania – that’s the amount for the total project,” spokesman Bo Ostlund told Reuters while giving no further details on the contract value.
