Nissan plant in St. Petersburg may start the production of Chinese cars

The plan, under which the former Nissan plant in St. Petersburg will operate, includes the involvement of a Chinese automaker through KAMAZ. One of the considered partners from the PRC is the automaker FAW. At what stage the negotiations are and what other Chinese companies are being considered is unknown. The Ministry of Industry and Trade has not commented on this information yet. "I doubt that the plant will remain mothballed for a long time.

First of all, the authorities will be interested in this, and I think that the conditions under which it will be possible to let one of the Chinese or even Iranian manufacturers into the plant will be quite attractive. Another thing is that no matter who of the manufacturers enters the plant, he will be forced to rebuild completely the production line - it is unlikely that conditional FAW or Chery will be able to produce their line on Nissan equipment," the Marketing and IT Director of the Group of Companies "Petrovsky" Sergey Novoselsky informed AUTOSTAT agency.

Recall that on October 11th, Nissan's executive committee approved the sale of its Russian assets to FSUE NAMI, subordinated to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. The deal involves the sale of 100% of Nissan's assets in Russia (managed by the legal entity Nissan Manufacturing Rus) to NAMI for the implementation of future passenger car production projects.