OREANDA-NEWS  Kamaz, Russia's largest truck manufacturer, has adapted its 13-liter diesel engine for use in shipbuilding and tractor equipment, Sergey Kogogin, CEO of Kamaz, told Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"If we take diesel engines, there is not only the automotive sector, it is agricultural machinery, they are installed on diesel locomotives, they are used in the energy sector as distributed energy, electric generators. Last year, we carried out a "warming up", that is, adaptation for use on ships of this 13-liter engine," said the head of the concern.

He stressed that earlier in the world, the Volvo Penta engine was mainly used for these purposes, but now Kamaz has replaced it with imports.