Car manufacturing in Donetsk region fell by 41.6% in 2015, foreign currency revenues from export fell by 2.8 times

​Export reduction to Russia was not covered by the growth of supplies to other countries though recently the necessity of entering new sales markets was evident.

The fall in the industry of the Donetsk region caused by the destructions of the production, transport and energy infrastructure as a result of military actions was accompanied by  the worsening of the sectoral production structure and export by means of reduction of absolute volumes and specific weight of car manufacturing on which the technical progress and modernization of other sectors depend.

The total volume of car manufacturing products sale in the region in Jan-July 2015 made up 4.0 bln grivnas or 4.1% of the regional volume of sold industrial products (in 2012 – 10.3%).

The foreign currency revenue from the export of cars, equipment, transport facilities made up $113.9 mln in Jan-July 2015 but fell by 2.8 times against Jan-July 2014, and specific weight of the car manufacturing products in the regional export of all goods made up 5.15 against 10.8% in Jan-July 2013.