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| Nissan starts work on St Petersburg site | |
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| Construction work has started on Nissan's Russian car assembly plant, with completion due in early 2009. Nissan is spending $200 million on the plant, which will build the Teana and the X-Trail models, with capacity at present scheduled to be 50,000 vehicles a year. The site will employ 750 people. The St Petersburg plant will have assembly, paint, trim and chasis lines. Corporate strategy vice-president Carlos Tavares said the plant was "the next significant step twoards global expansion under the Nissan Value-Up campaign". Nissan expects Russia to overtake the UK as the biggest sales area for its cars in Europe in 2007.
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