Transport and communications statistics for September 2016 statistics for September 2016

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that new registration of motor vehicles decreased by 40.1% year-on-year to 979 in September 2016. In the first three quarters of 2016, new registration of motor vehicles dropped by 31.7% year-on-year to 10,078, with that of motorcycles (5,785) and light automobiles (3,785) falling by 25.3% and 41.9% respectively. Total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 249,013 at the end of September, up by 1.2% year-on-year; motorcycles and light automobiles accounted for 52.3% and 44.6% of the respective total. There were 1,119 traffic accident cases in September and number of casualties totalled 328. In the first three quarters of 2016, number of traffic accidents decreased by 6.4% year-on-year to 11,000 cases, resulting in 3,346 casualties and 8 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic totalled 413,763 trips in September 2016, down by 1.0% year-on-year. In the first three quarters of 2016, cross-border vehicle traffic rose slightly by 0.7% year-on-year to 3,846,929 trips, of which vehicle traffic through the Border Gate took up 76.8%. Passenger ferry movements between Macao and Mainland China and between Macao and Hong Kong decreased by 3.8% year-on-year to 11,496 trips in September, while movements in the first three quarters (102,930 trips) dropped by 6.1%. Commercial flight movements at the Macao International Airport totalled 4,124 in September 2016, down slightly by 0.2% year-on-year. In the first three quarters of 2016, commercial flight movements increased by 5.4% year-on-year to 40,778 trips; flight movements to and from Thailand and Taiwan rose by 14.5% and 13.7% respectively, while movements to and from Mainland China dropped by 4.6%. Helicopter flight movements between Macao and Mainland China and between Macao and Hong Kong decreased by 10.1% year-on-year to 1,082 trips in September, and movements in the first three quarters (8,017 trips) fell by 24.0%. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo dropped by 49.0% year-on-year to 12,822 tonnes in September 2016. Seaborne container throughput totalled 10,916 TEU, equivalent to 7,537 containers handled, down by 10.8% and 8.6% respectively year-on-year. In the first three quarters of 2016, gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo decreased by 32.6% year-on-year to 134,309 tonnes, of which 50.9% passed through Inner Harbour (68,300 tonnes); seaborne container throughput (95,765 TEU) and containers handled (65,764) fell by 14.8% and 13.3% respectively. Gross weight of containerized cargo by land decreased by 52.9% year-on-year to 1,239 tonnes in September. In the first three quarters of 2016, gross weight of containerized cargo by land dropped by 2.8% year-on-year to 17,608 tonnes, of which cargo through the Checkpoint of Cotai (15,357 tonnes) accounted for 87.2%. The Macao International Airport handled 2,674 tonnes of air cargo in September 2016, rose by 1.1% year-on-year. In the first three quarters of 2016, inward air cargo (4,691 tonnes) decreased by 13.4% year-on-year while outward air cargo (13,339 tonnes) increased by 17.3%; inward air cargo from Taiwan (56.5% of total) dropped by 19.8% whereas outward air cargo to Taiwan (46.8% of total) went up by 30.3%. Transit air cargo (4,770 tonnes) rose by 3.4% year-on-year in the first three quarters. At the end of September 2016, number of fixed-line telephone subscribers decreased by 7.3% year-on-year to 137,463. Number of mobile telephone subscribers rose by 4.4% to 1,895,968, of which stored-value GSM card subscribers (1,199,678) accounted for 63.3%. Number of internet subscribers increased by 9.6% year-on-year to 357,105. In the first three quarters of 2016, the cumulative duration of fixed broadbard internet usage grew by 10.7% year-on-year to 870 million hours.