REUTERS
Production of motor vehicles in Ukraine rose by 91.8% in January-April 2017 year-over-year (y-o-y), to 2,064 units, according to the Ukravtoprom Association.
In particular, production of passenger cars grew by 107.5%, to 1,700 units, while the output of commercial vehicles shrank by 38.8% y-o-y, to 153 units. At the same time, the number of buses produced over the period under review soared by 19 times, to 220 units.
In April 2017 alone, Ukraine produced 621 vehicles, which was 107.7% up y-o-y and 9.6% down from March 2017.
Passenger cars whose output almost quadrupled in April 2017 y-o-y, to 570 units accounted for the lion's share of total vehicle output. Ukravtoprom reported that only Eurocar plant was producing cars.
Production of buses in April 2017 fell by 37% from March 2017, to 51 units.
However, there were no reports about trucks manufactured in April this year. As Ukravtoprom claims, truck manufacturer AutoKrAZ, for unexplained reasons, had not provided statistics on truck production since August last year.
Read alsoKorean Daewoo mulling over assembly of electric cars in UkraineAs UNIAN reported earlier, the production of vehicles in Ukraine soared by 86% in January-March 2017 y-o-y, to 1,443 units, whereas it fell by 36% in 2016 from 2015, to 5,200 vehicles, according to Ukravtoprom.
UNIAN memo. The largest manufacturers of cars and buses in Ukraine are UkrAVTO Corporation (Zaporizhia automobile building plant), Bogdan Corporation, Eurocar plant, AIS Corporation (KrASZ), Etalon Corporation (Chernihiv and Boryspil automobile plants).