At the end of 2014, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 335,249, up by almost one per cent over the previous quarter, the National Statistics Office said today.
Of these, 79.3 per cent were passenger cars, 12.8 per cent were goods-carrying vehicles, 5.5 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 4,782. The majority of new licences (3,858 or 80.7 per cent of the total) were issued to passenger cars, followed by motorcycles (449 or 9.4 per cent of the total).
Newly-licensed ‘new’ motor vehicles amounted to 2,015, (42.1 per cent of the total) whereas newly licensed ‘used’ motor vehicles totalled 2,767 (57.9 per cent of the total).
In the fourth quarter last year, 48 vehicles were exported. Garaged vehicles amounted to 2,090, while scrapped vehicles totalled 702.
As at the end of December last year, 203,180 vehicles, or 60.6 per cent of the total, had petrol engines. Vehicles with diesel engines reached 131,005, or 39.1 per cent of the total.