Iraq’s Baraq Al Qima truck assembly plant kickstarts operations

Iraq’s Abbasid Shrine has inaugurated the Baraq Al Qima truck assembly plant in partnership with China’s automobile firm Shacman, according to a statement. The project’s first phase aims to assemble nearly 400 trucks per year, with future phases on track to add six different truck models.

What we know so far: The plant produced the Shacman X3000 truck as a first product and has plans to ramp up production to 1.4k trucks per year, the statement notes.

The details: The X3000 trucks can operate for over 2 mn kms without major repairs and contain an electric system designed to provide efficiency and reliability for the transport of goods and delivery of services, according to their website.

There’s more: The project also aims to launch maintenance and sales centers to ensure the availability of spare parts and after- sales services, the statement notes.