Kazakhstan produced 2,105 vehicles worth 12.1 billion tenge in January, reads a report issued by the Union of Enterprises of the Automobile Industry of Kazakhstan “KazAvtoProm”.
The volume of output in physical terms exceeded the last year’s indicator 3.6-fold.
The production of passenger cars increased 3.7-fold, reaching 2,041 units. The output of trucks (52 units) exceeded the result of a year ago 13-fold. The production of specialized auto equipment kept unchanged (2 units). The output of bus technology was reduced from 7 to 1 unit.
The sale of domestic car factories in the first month of 2018 reached 1,340 vehicles, up by 77.7% YoY (754 vehicles). The market share of enterprises of the auto industry increased to 41.2% compared to 30.5% in the same period last year.
JSC “Azia Avto” occupies the dominant position in the segment of local cars – 915 cars sold, which makes up 68.3% of the total sale of domestic cars. LLP “SaryarkaAvtoProm” sold 327 vehicles (share in the segment – 24.4%), LLP SemAZ – 56 vehicles (4.2%), KAMAZ-Engineering – 21 vehicles (1.6%) and LLP Hyundai Trans Auto 21 vehicles (1.6%).
The share of the auto industry in the GDP structure in January amounted to 12.1 billion tenge (with an increase of 2.4-fold over the year), which exceeded the similar figures of the pharmaceutical and light industry 2-fold. Investments of enterprises of the auto industry in fixed assets reached 11.6 million tenge. (Trend/Business World Magazine)