Greece's industrial new orders’ composite index (measuring both the domestic and external markets) jumped 16.8 percent in February this year, compared with the same month in 2010, after a decline of 6.1 percent recorded in February 2010, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Tuesday.
The statistics service, in a report, attributed this development to an 8.6 percent decline in the domestic new orders index and a 52.9 percent jump in the external market index in February.
Hellenic Statistical Authority also announced that the turnover index in the industrial sector (measuring both the domestic and external markets) grew 6.8 percent in February, from the same month last year, after an increase of 0.7 percent recorded in February 2010. The statistics service attributed this figure to a 23.6 percent increase in the mining turnover index and a 6.5 percent rise in the manufacturing index. The domestic turnover index was up 3.6 percent in February while the external market turnover index rose 14 percent in the month.
