Production of passenger cars in Russia in January – May, declined by 23.8% – BBC

Production of passenger cars in Russia in January – May 2015 compared to the same period of the previous year decreased by 23.8% to 568 thousand. Cars, reports the Federal State Statistics Service ( Federal State Statistics Service ).

At the same time in May, production of cars decreased by 37.9% compared to the same month of 2014 and by 29.9% compared to April 2015.

Production of trucks the first five months of the year fell by 23.2% compared to the same period of 2014, to 46.2 thousand. units. In May issue of heavy-fell by 18.3% yoy and by 14.3% compared to the previous month.

The issue of buses in January – May decreased by 14.3% compared to the same period last year to 12.7 thousand. units. In May, production fell by 6.9% (2.3% in comparison with April).