{"id":36816,"date":"2018-01-19T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T09:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/volkswagen-to-start-by-assembling-5000-cars-per\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T11:58:38","slug":"volkswagen-to-start-by-assembling-5000-cars-per","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/volkswagen-to-start-by-assembling-5000-cars-per\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen to start by assembling 5000 cars per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in a press conference yesterday, the Managing Director of Volkswagen in South Africa, Thomas Schafer said that they are ready to implement agreements that they signed with the Government of Rwanda back in December, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the implementation will take place in three phases; the first was to introduce their company in Rwanda, which is \u2018Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda\u2019. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe have a place where we can assemble 5000 cars per year. We expect different models like VW Polo, VW Passat and VW Teramont (SUV),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that they chose to invest in Rwanda as a country that is politically stable, don\u2019t tolerate corruption, fast-growing economy, many youth and people willing to own cars.<\/p>\n<p>He said they plan to provide jobs to 1000 people in the first phase after training about the company\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>Schafer said that in the second phase, they will provide 150 cars that will be used by a community located in the same place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis system, people in the same community like a company or the ministry can book the car by using an application, use it and pay according to kilometers used,\u201d he explained<\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda Development Board (RDB)Chief Executive Officer, Clare Akamanzi said Volkswagen\u2019s project is among government\u2019s targets to spur investment in the country. She said, tangible changes have been earmarked in the past ten years.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn 2007 our investment was $800 million but at the end of 2017 we had registered $1.675 billion and this indicates that we have doubled our investment in last ten years. But Volkswagen\u2019s decision indicates new investment trend in Rwanda,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23773 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/volkswag.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda Development Board (RDB) Chief Executive Officer, Clare Akamanzi  and the Managing Director of Volkswagen in South Africa, Thomas Schafer addressing the media in Kigali yesterday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23774 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/volkswagen.jpg\" alt=\"The Managing Director of Volkswagen in South Africa, Thomas Schafer and Rwanda Development Board (RDB) Chief Executive Officer, Clare Akamanzi \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23772 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/thomas.jpg\" alt=\"The Managing Director of Volkswagen in South Africa, Thomas Schafer\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German manufacturer of automobile, Volkswagen has announced that they are set to invest $20 million in the first phase of car assembling project in Rwanda where they will be assembling 5000 cars per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36816"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36816"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}