In February 2020, Africa’s largest Indigenous Industrial Conglomerate, the Dangote Group, invested about N63 billion in a local automaker with an assembling plant in Enugu with the purchase of 3,500 trucks while going into a long-term partnership with them. The automaker, which goes by the name Transit Support Services Limited thus went into a long-term agreement with Dangote Group and has already supplied 3,500 Shacman trucks to the company from its Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company assembly plant in Emene Enugu State.

Fasttrack to April of 2021, news broke that Dangote Group has taken delivery of another set of 400 Shacman trucks from Transit Support Services Limited and assembled in the former ANAMMCO plant in Enugu. Bringing the total number of trucks bought by the Dangote Group from Transit Support Services Limited to about 4,000 units since the entry of the brand into the country in 2016. It is thus clear that Dangote-Shacman partnership has led to the resuscitation of the ANAMMCO plant in Enugu.

Dangote has thus emerged as the biggest customer of the Enugu-based auto assembler in a partnership that has resulted in the provision of more jobs for many youths; rejuvenation of the Onne Port in Rivers State and the attendant economic benefits.

Going by the words of the Transit Support Services Limited, with the partnership deal and commitments to quality, Dangote Group, has opened the floor for a flurry of economic activities around the Automotive industry in the South Africa

In essence, Dangote Group has since the entrance of Shacman vehicles into the Nigerian market through Transit Support Services Limited as Shacman Nigeria six years ago, bought over 3,500 units of the brand- a major rally, it must be said.