Press TV - Iran has delivered as many as 30 hybrid vehicles to Senegal to be used in the country�s taxi fleet.

The ceremony for handing over the taxicabs was held at the Blaise Diagne International Airport in western Senegal. It was joined by Senegal�s Minister of Air Transport and Development of Airport Infrastructures, Maimouna Ndoye Seck.

The project for making the vehicles was leveraged by the Bank of Africa pan-African banking conglomerate.

The vehicles are of the Samand LX make manufactured by Iran�s biggest carmaker Iran Khodro (IKCO).

Last month, it was reported that Iran Khodro had exported a first consignment of its Dena Plus cars to Senegal to be used in the African country�s police fleet.

The report said the exports would take place through IKCO�s joint venture company with the Senegalese government, known as SenIran. Senegal also re-exports the company�s cars to Guinea and Nigeria.

IKCO also exports vehicles to Russia, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Egypt, Algeria, and Bulgaria.