December, 2014

The launch of the second phase of Nissan automotive assembly plant in St. Petersburg

On Tuesday December, 9, an opening ceremony was held in St. Petersburg to launch the second phase of Nissan plant in St. Petersburg. The plant total area is 165 hectares. Body shop, shop of plastic products, painting and final assembly shop occupy 60 ha of territory. The number of models produced will be increased from three to five. These days Nissan plant produces Nissan Teana, Nissan Murano, Nissan Pathfinder and Nissan X-Trail models. In the year 2015 Nissan Qashqai cars will be added. At the construction stage of the second phase of Nissan plant VTN-Agency provided Nissan with logistics and customs clearance services including obtaining of Federal Customs Service (FCS) of the Russian Federation classification decisions for production machinery.