As at the end of June, the stock of licensed motor vehicles as provided by Transport Malta stood at 301,605. Of these, 76.4 per cent were private vehicles, while commercial vehicles accounted for 15.7 per cent.

New licences

New licences issued during the second quarter of 2010 amounted to 4,159. Private vehicles accounted for 3,281 new licences, or 78.9 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 1,445 new licences, followed by vehicles in ‘Class 5’ (1801-2000 cc) with 543. Newly-licensed ‘new’ motor vehicles amounted to 1,520, or 36.5 per cent of the total. A total of 2,639 ‘used’ motor vehicles were newly licensed during the quarter under review.

Exported, scrapped and garaged

In the quarter under review, 40 vehicles were exported. Scrapped vehicles numbered 1,096, of which 53.9 per cent were ‘Class 1’ vehicles (<1300 cc). Garaged vehicles (see definition in methodological notes) amounted to 2,279 or 66.7 per cent of the total vehicles which were no longer on the road in the period under review.

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