A model poses with a Nissan Patrol Y62 at the DT Dobie showroom in Nairobi on September 3, 2013. PHOTO | FILE
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DT Dobie has already delivered a consignment of the Volkswagen, Jeep, and Nissan vehicles to CRBC, which is building the standard gauge railway from Mombasa to Nairobi.
Motor dealer DT Dobie has got a big boost from sale of 81 pick-ups and saloon cars to construction company China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) for Sh250 million.
DT Dobie has already delivered a consignment of the Volkswagen, Jeep, and Nissan vehicles to CRBC, which is building the standard gauge railway from Mombasa to Nairobi.
“The total value of the order is Sh250 million,” said DT Dobie’s chief executive Zarak Khan in an interview.
The Nissan pick-ups sold to CRBC represent the stocks being phased out by the auto dealer, which lost the Nissan franchise to Crown Motors last year.
The CRBC order signals the growing importance of major infrastructure projects to auto dealers who stand to supply a wide array of vehicles including passenger cars and trucks to contractors.
The railway project will see CRBC source at least 40 per cent of the materials from Kenyan firms—including vehicles— according to the local content rule agreed with the government.
The Chinese conglomerate now joins logistics firms that have benefited dealers like DT Dobie and General Motors East Africa with single bulk orders worth hundreds of millions of shillings.
CRBC is expected to complete construction of the 609-kilometre railway by 2017 at an estimated cost of Sh345 billion, a move that will boost speed and reliability of railway transport.
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