As at the end of March, the stock of licensed motor vehicles as provided by Transport Malta stood at 300,308. Of these, 76.4 per cent were private vehicles, while commercial vehicles accounted for 15.8 per cent.
New licences
New licences issued during the first quarter of 2010 amounted to 3,786. Private vehicles accounted for 2,992 new licences, or 79.0 per cent of the total. In the reference period, the majority of new licences were issued to private vehicles falling within ‘Class 1’ (<1300 cc), accounting for 1,360 new licences, followed by vehicles in ‘Class 5’ (1801-2000 cc) with 501. Newly-licensed ‘new’ motor vehicles amounted to 1,280, or 33.8 per cent of the total. A total of 2,506 ‘used’ motor vehicles were newly licensed during the quarter under review.
Exported, scrapped and garaged
In the quarter under review, 17 vehicles were exported. Scrapped vehicles numbered 1,148, of which 53.2 per cent were ‘Class 1’ vehicles (<1300 cc). Garaged vehicles amounted to 2,312, or 66.5 per cent of the total vehicles which were no longer on the road in the period under review.