Busworld Russia is held once every two years in even-numbered years, alternating with the Comtrans exhibition of ITEMF.
In 2018, this specialized exhibition of buses and coaches in Russia is hosting 72 exhibitors from 14 countries on an exhibition area of more than 9,000 m2, which doubles the exhibition surface in comparison to the previous edition in 2016.
The exhibition has a very interesting and vast range of bus and coach builders showing their latest developments.
The Russian bus and coach industry is well represented by KAMAZ, NEFAZ, GAZ Group Russian Buses, GAZ Group Commercial Vehicles, Volgabus, August Air Conditioning Plant, Webasto, PC Transport Systems, Spetcavtoinzhiniring, FESTO RF, Bus Motors and many others. From Belarusia Minsk Automobile Plant and MZKT (Neman Bus) will show their vehicles.
The Portugese manufacturer CaetanoBus – who just announced a collaboration with Toyota in building their first fuel cell bus – will be presenting their vehicles at Busworld Russia too. Other European bus and component manufacturers are: MAN Truck and Bus, Hidral Gobel (Italy), VOITH (Germany), Actia Automotive (France), Finn Lamex Safety Glass Oy (Finland), Camozzi (Italy), Hubner and others.
The Chinese OEM’s are also well represented with brands like King Long, Yutong, Higer, Zhong Tong, Ankai, JVS, Taichang Bus Air Conditioner CO., Jointech Vehicle System Co., Ltd. etc.
And last but not least visitors can meet up with a lot of Turkish manufacturers like Anadolu Isuzu, Etka-D, Celik Conta Otomotiv and many others.
In this second edition, a special business program was developed in the form of several events.
First of all people can participate to the ‘Eurasian Bus Seminar UITP / Busworld’ on 24 October 2018. The objective of the seminar is to hold an active dialogue to determine the main trends and developments of the public transport sector, affecting bus and e-bus production and operation.
On 23, 24 and 25 October visitors can attend the ‘Busworld Academy and TAMA (Transport Association Of The Moscow Agglomeration) Business Programme’ that will address the following topics: ‘Bus and the City’, ‘Bus and Tourism’ and ‘Safety and Maintenance’. On 25 October there is a special session about autonomous buses.
In the evening of 23 October, the 18th ceremony of the Russian jury competition ‘The Best Commercial Vehicle of the Year in Russia’ is hosted in Crocus Expo, where the winners are announced during an entertaining show.
The Official Opening Ceremony of the exhibition will take place on 23 October 10.30 a.m. in the Busworld halls.
The international bus and coach exhibition Busworld Russia powered by Autotrans is supported by: the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, the Association of Russian Automakers, the Russian Motor Transport Union, ROSAVTOTRANS, the Association of European Businesses, the Transport Association of the Moscow Agglomeration and the Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development of Moscow.
It promises to be a very interesting exhibition, well worth a visit. After the exhibition there will be a full report on the show and the products that were on display and the events that took place.
