Volvo has increased its exports to almost every region in the world this year, but a sharp fall in the number of trucks being sold into the huge North American market brought the overall figure down by 8%.
Deliveries to Europe were up 16% to 18,228 for January-April compared with the same period last year. The biggest increase was in Eastern Europe, with sales up 67% to 5,073 vehicles. But deliveries to North America were down 54% to 5,308 from 11,647 in 2006. Volvo says this "is fully
attributable" to new US emissions standards.
Elsewhere the news was all good with rises in sales to South America (32%), the Middle East (16%) and Asia (10%). Overall Volvo's global deliveries were down from 33,007 to 30,423 in 2006 Volvo sold more than 105,000 trucks worldwide.
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