The first consignment of buses assembled in Turkey has arrived in Tajikistan.

Tajikistan has purchased 40 Isuzu buses assembled in Turkey for Dushanbe and they have moved to Tajikistan through the territories of Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Tajikistan plans to purchase 24 more Anadolu Isuzu buses from Turkey in the summer.

The Dushanbe administration will give a news conference on this subject today evening   

Recall, Dushanbe authorities intend to remove fixed-route minivans from the city streets in the first half of 2017.

They are expected to replace them with buses and trolleybuses; private taxies will also remain in the city.

According to Dushanbenaqliyotkhizmatrason (public transport service), 3,616 minivans are currently running in the city.  2,973 of them are working contractually and the remaining 643 belong to unitary municipal enterprises.

Meanwhile, only 153 of 417 buses and 72 of 116 trolleybuses existing in Dushanbe are currently running in the city. 

Anadolu Isuzu (officially Anadolu Isuzu Automotive Industry & Trading A.Ş.) is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey and a joint venture between Anadolu Group from Turkey, and Isuzu Motors and Itochu Co. from Japan.  Its main fields of operation are the production and marketing of light duty trucks and midibuses.  Since the establishment of the company in 1984, more than 80,000 commercial vehicles have been produced in accordance with the Isuzu Motors license agreement.  Anadolu Isuzu is the first Turkish-Japanese joint venture in the automotive sector.

In 1999 Anadolu Isuzu has moved to the new Gebze Şekerpınar facilities, in the Cayırova district of Kocaeli Province. The new facilities were established over a land of 230.000 m2 where the company employs nearly 750 people. The facilities include two separate plants for truck and bus manufacturing. The midibus manufacturing plant alone covers an area of 21.750 m2 and has a production capacity of 4000 midibuses per year.

Anadolu Isuzu is considered one of the leading medium-sized bus and coach manufacturing companies in Europe.