Last month, Moscow hosted the COMTRANS International Commercial Vehicle Show organized by ITEMF Expo Company in cooperation with the Organization of Russian Motor Vehicle Manufacturers.

“The market bought in nine months what was sold throughout 2018,” said Luiz Carlos de Moraes, president of ANFAVEA, the National Association of Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers based in São Paulo.

New bus and coach registrations fell by 29.4% in the second quarter of this year, according to statistics provided by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, with 1,433 vehicles registered.

Registrations of new heavy goods vehicles rose 46.3% in the second quarter of 2019, with 15,605 units registered, according to figures issued by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

In the first half of 2019, Russia registered 45,662 new light commercial vehicles and including buses of M2 category which was 9.1% fewer than the 50,208 units registered in the same period of last year, according to statistics collated by Avtostat Info.

According to LLC Avtostat Info, in the first half of 2019 Russia registered 6,489 new buses with gross vehicle weights of 6 tonnes and above, which was 8.3% down on 7,077 units registered in the same period of 2017.

According to statistics collated by LLC Avtostat Info, 38,844 new medium and heavy-duty trucks were registered in Russia in the first half of 2019; a decrease of 6.4% on 37,212 units registered in the same period of 2018.

Claiming that almost all buses in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital, already have Voith transmissions, Anton Khapugin, Voith regional sales director said at Busworld Central Asia in Almaty at the end of June the potential for sales growth in the region for its DIWA transmissions was huge.

DAF Trucks Ltd reported it retained its dominant position in the UK truck market for the 24th year in a row, ending 2018 with registrations of 11,373 vehicles to give it a 27.2% share of the market above 6.0 tonnes gross vehicle weight; these registrations and market share was according to Robin Easton, managing director of DAF Truck UK, speaking ahead of the CV Show in Birmingham last month.

The Indonesian pickup truck market declined by almost 17% to 5,222 units in the first quarter after growing by two-thirds to 6,280 units in the same period a year earlier.

The Indonesian market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw declined by 9.4% to 39,824 units in the first quarter of 2019 from strong year-earlier sales of 43,936 units, based on www.AsiaMotorBusiness.com analysis of vehicle wholesale data.

The Vietnamese market for pick-up trucks rebounded by 23% to 5,493 units in the first quarter from 4,466 units a year earlier, with imports from Thailand recovering strongly from last year’s customs delays following the introduction of new regulations at the beginning of last year.