At the end of September, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 314,867, up by 0.2 per cent over the previous quarter.

At the end of September, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 314,867. Of these, 79.4 per cent were passenger cars, 14.5 per cent were commercial vehicles, five per cent were motorcycles, while buses and minibuses accounted for less than one per cent.

New licences issued during the period under review amounted to 4,026. The majority of new licences (3,125 or 77.6 per cent of the total) were issued to passenger cars, followed by goods carrying vehicles with 464. Newly-licensed ‘new’ motor vehicles amounted to 1,876, or 46.6 per cent of the total, and newly licensed ‘used’ motor vehicles totalled 2,150.

In the third quarter this year, 40 vehicles were exported. Garaged vehicles amounted to 2,163, while scrapped vehicles totalled 2,602.

As at the end of the third quarter, 193,319 vehicles or 61.4 per cent of the total, had petrol engines. Vehicles with diesel engines totalled 121,090, or 38.5 per cent of the total.

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