Haulmark Trailers will provide and support 973 lightweight trailers to the Australian Defence Force under a A$70m contract.

Under the contract, Haulmark will supply new-generation vehicular systems, which will replace the current trailer capability for defence, according to Minister for Defence Materiel and Science Greg Combet.

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The systems are specifically designed to operate in conjunction with the G Wagon vehicles, which are being acquired from Mercedes Benz Australia.

Combet said the contract was part of the A$6.6bn LAND 121 Project Overlander, a multiphase project to upgrade the army’s vehicles.

Deliveries will run until February 2015.

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