KamAZ may cut its workweek to four days starting June 1 as heavy truck sales in Russia fall, the company’s press service told the Russian business news outlet RBC.

Any military requires a lot of trucks to supply the front. So the biggest Russian truck maker cutting production is quite intressting.

  • 5715@feddit.orgEnglish
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    9 days ago

    AFAIK, KamAZ was the backbone of the Soviet economy, if that’s still true for the Russian economy, then they’re not exactly booming.

    • Melchior@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      The ones to watch are honestly Gazprom, Lukoil and Rosneft in the oil and gas sector, Russian Railways, Rostec in military production and the large banks Sberbank and VTB Bank.

      KamAZ is intressting as its products are also civilian. We know car production has fallen off a cliff after the invasion. So KamAZ failing would basically kill Russian civilian vehicle production. Not that they only built civilian vehicles though.

      • 5715@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        I meant it more infrastructure-wise, because they, along Russian Railways, haul the Russian goods. A reduction in utility vehicle production, I assume, equates to reduced growth plans, because almost every good (besides pipelines) requires utility vehicles (similar to the cost ripple effect for fuel costs).