Trucks in may, moved to the retarder

Russian truck market in may is significantly slowed growth

In may 2018 the Russian market of trucks with GVW over 6 tons according RAMR were sold 5.9 thousand new cars, which is made in relation to the same month in 2017 +7.3 percent, so the growth rate of market of new trucks in Russia continues to slow down with the beginning of the year.

Accordingly, from January to may 2018 dispersed 30.8 thousand new trucks. The market has grown compared to the same period of 2017 to a solid 25.2 per cent. The share of trucks of the Russian brands in the market has dropped to 49.6% for the same period in 2017, up from 57%.

Sales leader of the truck market KAMAZ in January-may amounted to 10.6 thousand units (+9.3 percent), and ranked second in the truck market of Gas and 3.6 million (+12,5%). All-wheel drive trucks "Ural" have been implemented from the beginning of the year is 1.1 million (zero growth over the same period last year) – 9th place.

Accordingly, the share of technology saturated with foreign cars for five months of 2018 from 17% to 21%. In addition to the predominantly Swedish, German and Dutch equipment (by country of origin) appeared and the Japanese machine production.

The leader among the freight cars in the Russian market remains the Volvo brand, which occupies 3-e a place in absolute sales reaching 2.5 million, thanks to growth in five months 2018 by 56.3%. In the Top-5 in addition to Volvo also includes Scania with 2.2 million (+57.1%) and MAN from 1.9 million (+72,7%), showed even more impressive growth.

But the most powerful has grown the brand outside the Top 10 – they grew by almost 2.2 times to 3.7 thousand

In the structure of trucks of foreign production is dominated by semi-trailer trucks, whose share reaches 84%. A much smaller share in this segment are trucks (12%) and refrigerators (2 per cent). And only 2% are all other types of bodies. 

Three brand – Scania (29%), MAN (22%) and DAF (19%) occupied, together 78% of the market saturated with foreign cars tractors and all 100% segment of refrigerators. At the same time most of the trucks produced per abroad and sold in Russia belong to the Chinese brand: FAW, Shaanxi, HOWO, Dongfeng.