Recently however, some companies were trying to introduce Russia to remanufactured German and Japanese auto transport. The comparatively low cost and long service life of remanufactured equipment attracts customers among regional administrations concerned about urban public transport, heads of service stations, farmers, and individual customers. Over 50 percent of road construction machines, agricultural cars and machines, municipal transport and technological equipment have exceeded designed service life and need extensive repairs. The Russian fleet is aging rapidly and is on the verge of wearing out. Eleven major shipyards that specialize in building and repairing merchant vessels operate at low efficiency and high costs.
Russian carriers are reluctant to send vessels to overhaul and repair to domestic yards.
Faced with declining business, the Russian yards are searching for ways to generate foreign exchange and are increasingly devoting their repair and building capacities to foreign orders to manufacture and repair vessels. The exhibition focuses on used equipment, technologies for repair and modernization, and services in the distribution of used equipment. The exhibition primarily features manufacturing, packaging and construction equipment, and automotive parts and services. The exhibition conducted in December 1998 had few foreign participants but quite a few domestic companies that offered used Western machinery and technology for repairs and rehabilitation of used equipment.