Car rental market 2012

Ukrainian Union of Lessors having the leading rental companies as its members conducted the regular rental market research.

The biggest market players such as BLS, Avis, Europcar,  Sixt, Aro Cars and Hertz provided data for statistical reporting.

The results of the research show that almost all companies have increased their fleet last year. Overall, the fleet of the rental companies increased by more than 18%. Sixt is still the leader. At the end of 2012 there were 603 cars in the fleet of the company, it is by 43% more than in 2011. The second largest fleet belongs to Avis – 324 cars, the third to Budget Rent a Car – 204 cars. The triplet of the leaders remains unchanged for the last several years.

As in the previous period, Avis has the biggest quantity of the rental days – 81,822 days, which is by 22.5% more than in 2011.

Як і прогнозували експерти Асоціації в другій половині року відбулося сезонне зниження розміру автопарку  на 20%, при цьому, у 2013 році прогноз зростання ринку оцінюється у 25%.

As it was predicted by the Association experts there was a seasonal decrease of the fleet size by 20% in the second half of the year, while the 2013 forecast of the market growth is estimated at 25%.