Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicates that at the end of March 2005, there were 144,708 licensed vehicles in Macao, of which 51% (73,570) were motorcycles and 45% (64,919) were light vehicles. New registration of vehicles in the first quarter of 2005 increased 15% year-on-year to 4,121 and the majority were motorcycles (58%) and light vehicles (39%). In the first quarter of 2005, there were 3,063 cases of traffic accident, an increase of 4% over the same period of 2004, resulting in 957 casualties, among which 2 persons were killed. Traffic flow by land between Macao and Mainland China increased 15% to 721,022. The Border Gate was the major passage with 78% of the total and the Checkpoint of CoTai recorded 157,711 vehicles. In this quarter, arrivals and departures of commercial flight at the Macao International Airport totalled 9,915 flights, a jump of 23% over the same period of 2004. Taiwan, China and Mainland China were the major routes that accounted for 53% and 36% of the total commercial flights to/from Macao. At the Outer Harbour, 3,487 helicopter flights were recorded (-21% year-on-year) between Macao and Hong Kong and 583 flights were recorded between Macao and Mainland China. Passenger transport by sea between Hong Kong and Macao increased 9% to 19,576 ferry trips compared with the first quarter of 2004; passenger ferry trips between Macao and Mainland China dropped 4% to 2,634. Number of cargo vessel departures was 3,024 with a total capacity of 682,000 net registered tons, among which 2,150 vessels (71%) were flying the Chinese flag. In the first quarter of 2005, total seaborne container throughput was 23,057 TEUs, or 17,030 seaborne containers handled, which fell 9% and 6% compared with the same period of 2004. Number of container flow by land expanded 53% year-on-year to 2,485. In addition, gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo in the first two months of 2005 increased 19% over the same period of 2004 to 43,119 tonnes, of which 16,538 tonnes were transshipment goods. Meanwhile, containerized cargo by land rose 65% to 17,150 tonnes, including 14,424 tonnes of transshipment goods. Compared with the first quarter of 2004, total weight of outward cargo handled at the Macao International Airport surged 11% to 20,974 tonnes in the first quarter of 2005 whereas inward cargo decreased 1% to 6,125 tonnes. At the end of March 2005, there were 173,627 fixed telephone lines and 458,799 mobile telephone and stored value GSM card users. Besides, number of internet subscribers increased to 80,154 and total hour of usage reached 15.86 million hours, up 19% and 39% over the first quarter of 2004.
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