KYIV. Jan 11 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Sales of new trucks in Ukraine in 2016 with a fully loaded weight of over 3.5 tonnes grew by 46.6%, to 2,085 units, AUTO-Consulting has reported.
The number of deals to sell trucks grew for almost all active market players and some of them managed to boost sales by dozens of times.
The leader of the Ukrainian truck market was Russia’s GAZ in 2016, boosting sales by 2.3-fold, to 349 trucks, and its market share grew from 10.7% to 16.7%. In 2015 GAZ was second in sales.
MAN was second for the first time with 15.4% of the Ukrainian market (6.8% in 2015 and fifth on the market), boosting sales by 3.3 times, to 321 trucks.
Last year leader – Belarus’ MAZ – is not third with a 19.4% fall in sales, to 312 trucks, while its market share deceased to almost 15% compared to 27.2% in 2015.
AUTO-Consulting said that it is hard to switch to Euro-5 emission standard that took effect in Ukraine early 2016 for MAZ. MAZ trucks meeting Euro-5 emission standard were started only in H2 2016 and this affected the sales figures.
Scania trucks are fourth (third in 2015) with a 19.3% rise in sales, to 179 units.
The experts said that Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, DAF, Renault boosted their sales. Only KAMAZ (eighth) posted an 18.6% fall in sales. Dealers of Ford Trucks successfully attracted MAZ consumers.
“Turkey’s Ford showed the highest growth on the market and boosted sales by over 16 times, to 104 trucks,” the analysts said.
Chinese truck sales were also stirred up. Foton was tenth (14th in 2015) leaving KrAZ behind (sixth in 2015).
The experts said that 57 KrAZ trucks were sold in Ukraine in 2016 or 32% less than a year ago.
