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322,960 licensed vehicles on the island
By end 2013, Malta’s stock of licensed motor vehicles reached 322,960.
20 January 2014, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
At the end of 2013, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 322,960, up by 0.5 per cent over the previous quarter.
According to the National Statistics Office, the absolute majority - 79.3% - were passenger cars, 14.4% were commercial vehicles, 5.2% were motorcycles, while buses and minibuses accounted for less than one per cent.
New licences issued during the period under review amounted to 4,075. The majority were issued to passenger cars (3,248 or 79.7 per cent), followed by goods-carrying vehicles with 418. Newly-licensed 'new' motor vehicles amounted to 1,672, or 41.0 per cent, and newly licensed 'used' motor vehicles totalled 2,403.
In the fourth quarter last year, 46 vehicles were exported. Garaged vehicles amounted to 2,382, while scrapped vehicles totalled 1,788.
As at the end of December, 196,425 vehicles, or 60.8 per cent, had petrol engines. Vehicles with diesel engines reached 125,822, or 39.0 per cent.
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On such a small, crowded island it shows up the inadequacy of the public transport system, which went from bad to disastrous when Wistinu and his "Wolves of Pieta" team managed it.
