{"id":62077,"date":"2017-01-06T00:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T06:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62077"},"modified":"2017-01-05T17:50:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:50:36","slug":"boi-says-they-have-signed-agreement-for-volkswagen-assembly-plant-but-ranil-says-volkswagen-has-not-invested-in-kuliyapitiya-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/06\/boi-says-they-have-signed-agreement-for-volkswagen-assembly-plant-but-ranil-says-volkswagen-has-not-invested-in-kuliyapitiya-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"BOI SAYS THEY HAVE SIGNED AGREEMENT FOR VOLKSWAGEN ASSEMBLY PLANT BUT RANIL SAYS Volkswagen has not invested in Kuliyapitiya plant:"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a BOI website that boasts about Volkswagen investments in Sri Lanka. BOI even held a sham conference and signed a sham agreement! Now VW has clearly stated they have no investment in Sri Lanka and have not yet planned any.<\/span><\/h3>\n

http:\/\/www.investsrilanka.com\/news\/story\/4094\/BOI-SIGNS-AGREEMENT-FOR-VOLKSWAGEN-ASSEMBLY-PLANT-SRI-LANKA-ENTERS-THE-ERA-OF-MODERN-AUTOMOBILE-INDUSTRY%E2%80%9D<\/p>\n

BOI SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR VOLKSWAGEN ASSEMBLY PLANT \u2013 SRI LANKA ENTERS THE ERA OF MODERN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY<\/h3>\n

\"BOI<\/p>\n

\n

A ground breaking agreement was signed by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka with M\/s Senok Automobile (Pvt) Ltd and Volkswagen AG to set up in Kuliyapitiya an assembly plant for Volkswagen Automobiles.<\/p>\n

The agreement was signed by Mr. Upul Jayasuriya Chairman of BOI and Mr. Noel Selvanayagam, President of Senok Automobile (Pvt) Ltd.<\/p>\n

Under this agreement which is a BOI Section 17 agreement, the investor will assemble vehicles in the 1000 cc to 2000 cc category.\u00a0 These vehicles will be diesel powered and include passenger cars, Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV), Multi Utility Vehicles (MUV) or commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n

Initially these vehicles would be marketed locally for a period of 3 years and thereafter the vehicles manufactured will be exported to overseas markets.<\/p>\n

There is also a potential for export \u00a0vehicles which would be petrol\/electric\/ hybrid vehicles to be built without the concessions that have been given for assembling diesel vehicles.\u00a0 The total value of this project will be an investment of US$26.5 million of which 21.5 million will be invested in fixed assets within a period of 24 months.<\/p>\n

As Volkswagen is currently the world leader in Automobile manufacture, recently overtaking Toyota of Japan, this project is a very high profile one and a statement about Sri Lanka\u2019s growing attractiveness as a destination for investment.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0BOI is very keen to attract other leading automobile manufacturers into the country as the industry creates opportunities for the creation of local component manufacturers that can supply the building of a complex product such as passenger car.\u00a0 It is estimated that the assembly plant will be operational within a period of 30 months.<\/p>\n

Volkswagen is a leading German automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany.\u00a0\u00a0 The Company was founded in 1937 and produces cars, trucks and buses.\u00a0 The company revenue was Euro 197 billion in 2013.\u00a0 It is best known for Iconic models such as\u00a0 Beetle, Golf and Passat.<\/p>\n

The uniqueness of the project would be the inflows of German advanced automobile technology into the country and creating of job opportunities for the local youth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a BOI website that boasts about Volkswagen investments in Sri Lanka. BOI even held a sham conference and signed a sham agreement! Now VW has clearly stated they have no investment in Sri Lanka and have not yet planned any. http:\/\/www.investsrilanka.com\/news\/story\/4094\/BOI-SIGNS-AGREEMENT-FOR-VOLKSWAGEN-ASSEMBLY-PLANT-SRI-LANKA-ENTERS-THE-ERA-OF-MODERN-AUTOMOBILE-INDUSTRY%E2%80%9D BOI SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR VOLKSWAGEN ASSEMBLY PLANT \u2013 SRI LANKA ENTERS THE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}