Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 203,443 at the end of September 2011, a year-on-year increase of 5%, of which 54% (109,936) were motorcycles and 39% (79,495) were light private cars. New registration of motor vehicles went up by 10% year-on-year to 13,260 in the first three quarters of 2011, with motorcycles and light private cars accounting for 55% and 38% respectively. In the first nine months of 2011, number of traffic accidents rose by 6% year-on-year to 10,393 cases, resulting in 4,056 victims and 8 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic by land between Macao and Mainland China increased by 9% year-on-year to 3,057,501 vehicle trips in the first three quarters of 2011, of which vehicle traffic through the Border Gate accounted for 82%. Commercial flight movements at the Macao International Airport increased marginally by 1% year-on-year to 26,397 in the first nine months of 2011, with Mainland China and Taiwan, China (each of 33%) as well as Thailand (10%) being the major routes. Helicopter flights between Macao and Hong Kong (11,887) and between Macao and Mainland China (2,700) recorded increases of 7% and 9% respectively. Passenger transport by sea between Macao and Hong Kong totalled 91,805 ferry trips in the first nine months of 2011, up by 2% year-on-year. Concurrently, ferry trips between Macao and Mainland China decreased by 5% year-on-year to 18,591. In the first three quarters of 2011, seaborne container throughput totalled 73,879 TEU or 54,711 containers handled, up by 11% and 14% respectively year-on-year. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo decreased by 4% year-on-year to 128,802 tonnes, with 3,126 tonnes of transshipment goods. Gross weight of containerized cargo by land decreased by 25% to 26,044 tonnes, including 8,016 tonnes of transit goods. In the first nine months of 2011, outward air cargo (18,144 tonnes) and inward air cargo (7,280 tonnes) fell by 23% and 31% respectively; meanwhile, transit air cargo decreased by 23% year-on-year to 3,659 tonnes. At the end of September 2011, number of mobile telephone users increased by 17% from a year earlier to 1,291,617, whereas fixed-line telephone users decreased slightly by 1% to 166,725. As regards internet services, number of subscribers reached 204,548 and the cumulative duration of usage totalled 382 million hours in the first nine months of 2011, up by 25% and 24% respectively.
