Both new light and heavy commercial vehicles continued to flood across New Zealand wharves last month, but the used heavy vehicle market has softened year on year say the New Zealand Customs December 2014 motor vehicle statistics.
New light commercial vehicles (under 3500kg) numbered 1,637 units for the month of December 2014 while there were 258 new heavy commercials (over 3500kg) unloaded from car carriers around the country.
For the year to 31 December 2014, there were 26,011 new light commercial vehicles (under 3500kg) brought across the wharves, a substantial increase on 18,758 units imported during the previous year.
New heavy commercial vehicles (over 3500kg) tallied 3731 units for 2014 as opposed to 2701 in 2013.
Used light commercial vehicles (under 3500kg) finished strongly, there were 5422 units imported in 2014 as opposed to 4288 units in 2013.
However used heavy commercial vehicles (over 3500kg) were slightly down on 2013, 861 vehicles came into New Zealand in 2014 as opposed to 910 in the previous corresponding period.
Unsurprisingly the greatest majority of new commercial vehicles were sourced from Thailand (18,567), followed by vehicles sourced from Japan (5195), Germany (1500), Korea (1105), Australia (824), Turkey (651), USA (631), and China (477).
Japan was the biggest source of used commercial vehicles with a tally of 5750 units for the year to December 31, 2014, followed by Australia (239), Great Britain (183) and the USA (82).
