A drop of 3.8 per cent in industrial turnover was registered between April and June this year when compared to the first three months of this year, the National Statistics Office said.

The decline was due to decreases in all the main industrial groupings, with the exception of the energy sector, which rose by 4.1 per cent.

Working-day adjusted industrial turnover dropped by 6.8 per cent when compared to the second quarter of last year.

Meanwhile, figures just published by the EU’s statistics office showed that, in July, Malta had the third largest drop in industrial production among member states with a fall of 3.9 per cent when compared to the same month of 2015.

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