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La producción de vehículos en España aumenta un 1,2% de enero a mayo de 2011Spain vehicle production increased 1.2% from January to May 2011
June 23, 2011
According to data published by
Anfac, Spanish Association of manufacturers of cars and trucks, production of vehicles in Spain recorded in the month of may a 3.3% increase, with a total of 228.622 vehicles produced in Spanish factories. With this result, the period enero-mayo shows an increase of 1.2% with almost 1.1 million vehicles manufactured. The behavior of the Spain production is lined with the evolution of the market of the European Union, while registrations of passenger cars in the period enero-mayo show a slight decline of 0.8%, two of the main destinations of our exports such as France and Germany, showing two separate growths of the 4.4 and 13.1 per cent, respectively. We must highlight the good behaviour of the production of commercial vehicles which recorded an increase of 27.6 per cent in the month of may, totaling 219.692 units and 21.5 per cent growth in the cumulative period.
As for exports, the weakness of the internal market Spanish, makes exports of vehicles to continue increasing and bringing in the period enero-mayo in a share of 88.4% of the total production, i.e., more than five points over the same period of the previous year. In the period enero-mayo have exported a total of 963.587 vehicles with an increase of 6.9%. Of the total number of vehicles exported, 752.982, i.e., 78 per cent correspond to cars.