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Japan exported 638,384 new cars, trucks and buses around the world in March2008.
Top 20 destinations for Japan’s export of new motor vehicles in March 2008.
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Sales of new cars, trucks and buses in Japan hit a 26-year low of 5.31 million units in fiscal year 2007, down 5.3 percent from a year earlier, according to May issue of Japan Automotive News in Tokyo.
This second consecutive decline represents a drop of more than 30 percent from the fiscal year 1990 peak of 7.8 million units.
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Japan’s export of used vehicles in March 2008 increased 31.8 percent to 133,354 units from a year earlier.
Japan exported 110,409 used cars, 22,036 used trucks and 909 used buses in March around the world.
Major destinations of Japan’s export of used vehicles in March.
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Cuba is spending $2 billion to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3000 modern buses to run in and around the capital.
First comes, the stink of diesel, then a metallic roar, and finally a tower of black smoke that tells you the “camello” the camel has reached your stop in Havana. These hulking 18-wheeled beasts, iron mutants made of two Soviet-era buses welded together on a flatbed and pulled by a separate cab, have long been Havana’s public transport nightmare bumpy, hot and jammed with up to 400 passengers at a time.
But their gradual disappearance is a telling sign of change in the twilight of the Fidel Castro age.
The last “camello” is expected to go out of service in Havana in April.
The camello, so named for its humped front and rear sections, is being eclipsed by 3000 new city buses from China as government under Castro’s brother, Raul, resuscitates a public transportation system on the brink of collapse.
“I think we should build a monument to the camello,” said retiree Salvador Carrera, a camello passenger. “It has been an extraordinary thing.”
The capital aside, camellos are far from extinct. The government has an island-wide fleet of more than 1,000, and those from Havana could be used to augment bus service elsewhere, transportation employees say. “We can carry up to 400 people. The bus cannot, “lamented conductor Estela Doira.”I’m happy, also sad, because the camello handles a lot more than the bus. “The camello was born in response to fuel shortages in the early 1990’s, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Cuba lost its annual $6 billion in subsidies.
The economy has since recovered thanks to heavy borrowing for China and nearly 100,000 barrels of oil a day for Venezuela.
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The decision by the Fiji government to ban the import of motor vehicles which are more than five years old is a good initiative but cars have become expensive, says the Consumer Council of Fiji chief executive Premila Kumar. Ms Kumar said the council has received many complaints from consumers regarding the second-hand car dealers. She claimed that second- hand car dealers sold cars that were more than 15- years - old. ” They sell it at exorbitant prices and consumers end up paying more on repairs, ” Mrs. Kumar said. Her comments come as a second- hand car dealers association stated that the business of members would collapse unless the interim Government stepped in to help them. The 22- member industry has seen five members close shop since November. Fiji Motor Traders Association president Ajay Lal said the five - year age ban was not necessarily the sole reason for the slump in sales of used cars. “There are close to 2,000 second - hand vehicles available in dealers’ display yards ready for sale but the question is, where is the customer? “There are less and less people in the market for used cars due to the general state of the market,” Mr. Lal said. Mr. Lal said the general age of cars imported into Fiji was very old & probably averaging 13 years.
