First Fiat 500L shipload left the port of Bar to reach USA
A shipment per month. New employment in Kragujevac factory
10 May, 17:42
(ANSA) - BELGRADE / PODGORICA - The first shipload of Fiat 500L produced in Kragujevac plant (central Serbia) and directed to the U.S. market left the Montenegrin port of Bar, in the Adriatic Sea. For the time being only a ship per month will leave towards the port of Baltimore. The first load of Fiat cars for the U.S. includes 3,100 500L manufactured in the Serbian modern plant, which were transported to Bar by rail. They will arrive in Baltimore after a two-week journey across Atlantic Ocean. About 1,500 cars will be allocated every week, on board of two vessels every seven days.
Due to the increased demand for this model, at the Kragujevac plant more 500 workers have been hired in the last two months, and the whole plant currently employs 3,000 people instead of the 2,500 planned, mostly young people.(ANSA).
