Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 246,452 at the end of September 2015, up by 4.3% year-on-year; motorcycles and light private cars accounted for 52.0% and 41.3% respectively. New registration of motor vehicles in September increased slightly by 12 year-on-year to 1,635; new registration of motor vehicles in the first three quarters (14,757) decreased by 2.4% year-on-year due to a 12.6% decline in that of light private cars. Traffic accident casualties totalled 394 in September, with 1 being killed. In the first three quarters, number of traffic accidents (11,747 cases) edged up by 0.1% year-on-year, resulting in 4,010 casualties and 10 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic totalled 418,089 trips in September 2015, up by 4.7% year-on-year. In the first three quarters, cross-border vehicle traffic (3,819,356 trips) increased by 4.6% year-on-year, with 77.5% crossing the Border Gate. Passenger ferry movements between Macao and Hong Kong and between Macao and Mainland China in the first three quarters (109,618 trips) increased by 3.8% year-on-year, with the Ferry Terminal at the Outer Harbour sharing 66.4% of the total. The Macao International Airport had 4,131 commercial flight movements in September 2015, up by 5.6% year-on-year. In the first three quarters, commercial flight movements (38,702 trips) increased by 9.1% year-on-year, with movements to and from Mainland China, Taiwan and Thailand rising by 5.8%, 3.7% and 16.6% respectively. Meanwhile, helicopter flight movements between Macao and Hong Kong and between Macao and Mainland China totalled 1,204 in September, up significantly by 64.0% year-on-year; helicopter flight movements in the first three quarters (10,553 trips) decreased by 3.7% year-on-year. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo increased by 35.8% year-on-year to 25,163 tonnes in September 2015. Seaborne container throughput totalled 12,241 TEU, equivalent to 8,249 containers handled, up by 17.4% and 16.3% respectively year-on-year. In the first three quarters, gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo (199,290 tonnes) increased by 11.0%, of which 58.7% passed through Ka Ho Harbour; seaborne container throughput (112,396 TEU) and containers handled (75,815) increased by 9.2% and 6.1% respectively. Gross weight of containerized cargo by land totalled 2,632 tonnes in September and 18,112 tonnes in the first three quarters, down by 18.7% and 15.8% respectively year-on-year. The Macao International Airport handled 2,646 tonnes of air cargo in September 2015, up by 4.2% year-on-year. In the first three quarters, inward air cargo (5,415 tonnes) and outward air cargo (11,376 tonnes) increased by 16.1% and 4.2% respectively year-on-year. Taiwan remained the major origin and destination of air cargo; inward air cargo from Taiwan (61.0% of total) and outward air cargo to Taiwan (42.1% of total) rose by 34.9% and 3.0% respectively year-on-year. Transit air cargo increased by 14.5% year-on-year to 4,614 tonnes. At the end of September 2015, number of fixed-line telephone subscribers decreased by 4.1% year-on-year to 148,307. Number of mobile telephone subscribers increased by 7.6% to 1,816,020, of which stored-value GSM card subscribers shared 62.8%. As regards internet services, number of subscribers totalled 325,920, up by 10.2% year-on-year. The cumulative duration of usage in the first three quarters (786 million hours) rose by 11.9% year-on-year.
