Daimler India, a subsidiary of German multinational automotive major Daimler AG, is adding a new production line later this year to produce 6.5 tonne-8.6 tonne trucks for the export markets.
Daimler India managing director and CEO Erich Nesselhauf on Tuesday said the company would start shipping out the products from the new production line in the last quarter of the current calendar year, particularly to the Middle East.
The company had exported 4,000 units from India on top of 13,100 trucks it had sold in the domestic market last year.
In the next three years the ratio of exports and domestic sales of