Australasian Bus & Coach – May 2019

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BUSWORLD EXHIBITION EVENT

T

he brand new event

‘Busworld Southeast Asia’

was the “place to be for all

Southeast Asian bus lovers”,

whom attended to check

out the latest designs of buses and

coaches, components and spare parts,

combined with attending presentations

at the conference organised by Busworld

Academy.

Held March 20-22, 2019, it welcomed

the biggest and most popular bus

and coach builders in the region:

Mercedes-Benz, Volvo Buses via

its importer Wahana Inti Selaras,

and among others the Indonesian

bodybuilders New Armada and

Laksana.

According to aficionados, the

exhibition was splendid. The exhibitors

had made a great effort to design and

build their booths and the whole venue

looked very attractive, Busworld states.

Premiere products included the

brand new Mercedes-Benz OF 917

coach, and a double decker coach with

Adi Putra body on a Volvo B11R chassis.

As a demonstrator Laksana had built a

bus quite similar to the Volvo 7900 on a

B8R chassis, Busworld states. 

Making its debut in Jakarta, Indonesia, the first Busworld Southeast

Asia exhibition at the JIexpo centre attracted around 6,900 unique

visitors and was a huge success.

BUSWORLD

SOUTHEAST

ASIA, 2019