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Sales surge in Sudan
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Exports to Africa and the Middle East helped Commercial Vehicle Auctions to stage its best sale of the year — and there's more to come.
xports have underpinned a strong year at ('VA with fresh export markets soaking up more stock in the run up to Christmas e main reason for this, acCording to CVA's Charlie Wri ht, is a sudden increase in demand from Sudan. Its government has relaxed import regulations in the run-up to the festive period and Sudanese buyers are making the most of it.
At the last sale they picked up 20 trucks, mainly MAN F2000 22.403s and iveco EuroStar 400E38s. New -nand bigger trucks attract lowe import duty in Sudan, and operators can defer payment until their imported vehicles are earning their keep. Part of the reason for the surge in demand is Sudan's new-found oil income, which is funding the rebuilding of its infrastructure.
The rise in export sales helped boost turnover at CVA's most recent sale to11.47m with 65% of the 430 lots finding new homes."In the past year export has really come on," says Wright. "Everybody in the trade, plant and trucks, have said if it wasn't for export the job would be dead." With the eastern European market well established, markets like Cyprus slowing up and Tanzania struggling ---to source 3-Series Scanias,the new really helped. •