Registrations of new commercial vehicles (trucks and special vehicles) in Ukraine in April 2025 decreased by 6% compared to the same month in 2024, to 982 units, according to UkrAvtoprom on its website.
Compared to March 2025, demand for such vehicles decreased by 1.4% (14 vehicles).
According to the report, MAN was the leader of the month with 128 vehicles registered (in April 2024, it was tenth in the ranking with 40 vehicles).
Citroen rose to second place with 118 units (last year it had 41 cars and was in ninth place), and last year’s leader Renault came in third with a nearly 2.3-fold decrease in registrations to 113 units.
The top five also included Peugeot with 78 units (74 units in April 2024) and Ford with 75 units (51 units).
“Since the beginning of the year, 3,820 new vehicles have been added to the Ukrainian fleet of trucks and special-purpose vehicles, which is 2% less than in the same period last year,” UkrAvtoprom reports.
As reported, in April 2024, the market for new commercial vehicles grew by 12.7% compared to April 2023, to 1,049 units, and in January-April, the market grew by 24%, to 3,193 thousand units.
According to UkrAvtoprom, 12,900 new commercial vehicles were registered in Ukraine in 2024, which is 14% more than a year earlier.
Imports of trucks to Ukraine in January-November 2024 increased by 28.8% in monetary terms compared to the same period in 2023, to EUR834.6 million, according to statistics from the State Customs Service.
According to the data released on Monday, most of the trucks were imported from Poland – for EUR169.25 million (or 20.28% of the total import structure of such vehicles), which is 89% more than a year earlier.
Cars worth EUR103.82 million (12.4%) were imported from France, which is 25% more than in January-November 2023, and EUR90.18 million from the United States. A year earlier, the top three truck exporting countries were Poland (13.8% of total truck imports), Korea (13.5%) and France (12.8%).
Imports from other countries increased by 21.5% to EUR 471.3 million during this period.
At the same time, according to statistics, in November, Ukraine imported trucks worth EUR75.8 million, compared to EUR59.4 million in the same month last year.
Over 11 months, Ukraine exported trucks worth EUR 2.9 million, mainly to Moldova (37.4% of exports of such vehicles), Poland (15.18%) and Kazakhstan (12.6%), while a year earlier, their exports amounted to EUR 3.87 million, mainly to Armenia (32.3%), Romania (25.7%) and Turkey (16.4%).
Japan has handed over new trucks to Kherson’s utility companies, said Roman Mrochko, head of the city’s military administration. “We received the new Japanese equipment under the Grant Agreement for the Emergency Recovery Program between the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the government of Ukraine,” Mrochko said in a telegram on Saturday.
He noted that Kherson really needs such equipment and thanked international partners for their help.
More than two thousand trucks are standing in line at three directions of the Ukrainian-Polish border due to the ongoing blockade organized by Polish carriers, the spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Andriy Demchenko, said on a national telethon on Sunday morning.
“Three directions remain blocked: Rava-Ruska – Hrebenne, Krakovets – Korchova, Shehyni-Medyka… As of this morning, there are about 2,150 trucks in the queues in these three directions heading to Ukraine in Poland. Most of them are in front of Shehynia-Medica. There is traffic, but it is not as intense as it was before November 6 or November 23, when the blocking of Shehynia began,” the spokesman said.
At the same time, Demchenko emphasized that the Yahodyn-Dorohusk direction, which was unblocked on December 11, is experiencing heavy traffic of freight transport.
“Over the past day, about 1,500 trucks crossed this direction in both directions. Most of them were heading towards Ukraine. This is a very high rate of border crossing. Because the same number of trucks, even less, crossed the border before the blockade,” said the spokesman.
Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) has announced the arrival of a batch of trucks to Poland by rail from Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian and Polish parties have agreed on all issues of transportation and customs and border procedures. The trucks will continue to their destination by road,” UZ said on its Telegram channel on Sunday.
The company emphasized that the next shipments are planned to be regular and involve more modernized platforms in transportation.
UZ reminded that it had organized a container train between Ukraine and Poland to transport trucks. It runs on the route Sknyliv (Ukraine) – Slavków (Poland). To order the transportation of a truck by a container train from Ukraine, you need to contact the Liski Transport Service Center branch of Ukrzaliznytsia JSC, and in the opposite direction – UZ Cargo Poland.
As reported, UZ sent the first container train with trucks to Poland on December 7. In this way, Ukrainian exporters tried to solve the problem of crossing the Ukrainian-Polish border, which had been blocked by Polish carriers for a month.
The Union of Road Hauliers of Slovakia (UNAS) has announced its decision to resume blocking truck traffic through the Slovak border crossing point Vysne Nemecke-Uzhhorod on Monday, December 11, according to the UNAS Facebook page on Sunday.
“The Union of Road Carriers of Slovakia (UNAS) decided on 10.12.2023 to extend the protest at the Vysne Nemecke/Uzhhorod border crossing from 11.12.2023 from 15:00 until further notice,” the statement reads.
The carriers warn that they will “block the entry to the territory of the Slovak Republic for freight transportation. Personal transportation will not be restricted in any way.”
“This decision was made by the Presidium based on an assessment of the information received and its impact on the Slovak road transport market. We join the protests organized in Poland from 06.11.2023 and from 11.12.2023 also in Hungary,” UNAS said.
