The Worldwide Industrial Truck Statistics (WITS) organization tracks
quarterly and monthly statistics on lift truck sales and its report is compiled by six trade groups based in North America, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Europe and China.
According to the 2018 WITS figures, global orders increased by 10.25%and world shipments by 11.68%.
Additional highlights of the 2018 WITS figures include:
• The Americas region improved
slightly from 2017’s high, with 328,610
orders, and showed a 4.12% increase.
• The Oceania region showed the
largest increase in orders (19.69%) and
shipments (24.7%).
• Europe produced double-digit
growth in orders (11.42%) and shipments (10.38%).
