Sales of truck tractors from China grew 100 times

According to the results of four months of 2023, 10.5 thousand new truck tractors were sold in Russia, which is 44% more than in the same period last year. This is reported by experts of agency "AUTOSTAT" with reference to the data of JSC "PPK"*.

At the same time, tractors from China accounted for 66% of the total sales volume, which is almost 7 thousand units. And this is 100 times higher than the result of a year ago (68 units). The main reason for such a sharp growth is the emergence of new players from China in the Russian truck market. Thus, for the last four months, 4.5 thousand SITRAK truck tractors were sold (43% of the total). Meanwhile, a year ago they were not in our market. The same applies to Foton (948 units) and Dongfeng (453 units). At the same time, sales of Shacman/Shaanxi truck tractors grew quite significantly (31 times to 902 units).

But sales of domestic vehicles in this segment, on the contrary, decreased. For KAMAZ, the fall was 46% (down to 1.7 thousand units), for Ural - 54% (down to 112 units). In addition to them, sales volumes of European and American tractors decreased - in the range from 34% to 87%. On the other hand, one cannot fail to note the growth in sales of Belarusian MAZ (by 2.5 times to 715 units).

Such a transformation of the truck tractor market is associated with the departure of leading foreign brands from Russia (due to the sanctions policy), when the vacant niche was occupied by companies from China. Also, we must not forget that last year Russian automakers experienced problems with components, which also accelerated the arrival of “Chinese”. In addition, the tractor market in our country is also growing due to an increase in the freight turnover of vehicles within the country, also due to import substitution of transportation.

* JSC "PPK" ("Passport Industrial Consulting") is a joint venture of JSC "Electronic Passport" and LLC "AUTOSTAT".