Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that the total number of licensed vehicles was 183,596 at the end of March 2009, a year-on-year increase of 4%, of which 54% (98,430) were motorcycles and 39% (71,815) were light private cars. New registration of vehicles decreased by 27% year-on-year to 3,890 in the first quarter, with motorcycles and light private cars accounting for 69% and 26% respectively. In the first quarter of 2009, the total number of traffic accidents dropped by 3% year-on-year to 3,017 cases, resulting in 998 victims and 2 of them were killed. Traffic flow by land between Macao and Mainland China decreased by 11% to 870,010 vehicle trips, and the Border Gate was the major passage that took up 83% of the total. Commercial flight movements at the Macao International Airport decreased by 27% year-on-year to 9,328 in the first quarter of 2009. Taiwan, China; Mainland China and Thailand were the major routes that accounted for 39%, 24% and 11% of the total commercial flights to/from Macao. Helicopter flights between Macao and Hong Kong dropped by 14% year-on-year to 3,531, whereas those between Macao and Mainland China rose by 14% to 760. Passenger transport by sea between Macao and Hong Kong totalled 21,721 ferry trips, and that between Macao and Mainland China was 5,128 trips, down by 3% and 1% respectively from the first quarter of 2008. The financial tsunami has driven down the merchandise exports and imports of Macao. Total seaborne container throughput in the first quarter of 2009 was 21,491 TEUs or 15,810 containers handled, down by 26% and 23% respectively from the same period of 2008. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo fell sharply by 40% year-on-year to 45,297 tonnes, with 3,503 tonnes of transshipment goods. Meanwhile, gross weight of containerized cargo by land dropped by 36% to 15,171 tonnes, including 4,046 tonnes of transit goods. Outward air cargo fell sharply by 52% year-on-year to 4,752 tonnes in the first quarter of 2009. Taiwan, China; and Mainland China were the main destinations that accounted for 80% and 8% of the total respectively. Concurrently, inward air cargo decreased by 54% to 2,192 tonnes, with those from Taiwan, China taking a predominant share of 85%. In addition, transit air cargo dropped significantly by 81% over the first quarter of 2008 to 2,880 tonnes. At the end of March 2009, the number of mobile telephone users rose by 19% from a year earlier to 985,760, whereas fixed-line telephone users decreased by 2% to 174,421. As regards internet services, number of subscribers reached 128,087 and the cumulative duration of usage totalled 75.2 million hours in the first quarter of 2009, up by 4% and 37% respectively.
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