Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 208,037 at the end of March 2012, a year-on-year increase of 5%, of which motorcycles (111,717) and light private cars (82,098) accounted for 54% and 39% respectively. New registration of motor vehicles decreased by 3% year-on-year to 4,190 in the first quarter of 2012, with motorcycles and light private cars sharing 51% and 44% of the total. In the first quarter of 2012, number of traffic accidents rose by 7% year-on-year to 3,620 cases, resulting in 1,298 victims and 2 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic by land between Macao and Mainland China increased by 8% year-on-year to 1,051,932 vehicle trips in the first quarter of 2012, of which vehicle traffic through the Border Gate accounted for 83%. Commercial flight movements at the Macao International Airport increased by 4% year-on-year to 8,846 in the first quarter of 2012, with Mainland China (38% of total); Taiwan, China (28%) and Thailand (11%) being the major routes. Helicopter flights between Macao and Hong Kong (3,243) and between Macao and Mainland China (758) decreased by 18% and 20% respectively. Passenger ferry transport between Macao and Hong Kong totalled 28,265 ferry trips in the first quarter of 2012, down by 8% year-on-year. Concurrently, passenger ferry transport between Macao and Mainland China increased by 15% year-on-year to 6,791 ferry trips. In the first quarter of 2012, seaborne container throughput totalled 27,016 TEU or 19,737 containers handled, up by 16% and 15% respectively year-on-year. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo increased by 31% year-on-year to 50,153 tonnes, with 1,494 tonnes of transshipment goods. Gross weight of containerized cargo by land rose by 1% to 9,482 tonnes, including 3,010 tonnes of transit goods. In the first quarter of 2012, outward (3,816 tonnes) and inward air cargo (1,745 tonnes) fell by 24% and 30% respectively year-on-year. Transit air cargo decreased by 9% year-on-year to 891 tonnes. At the end of March 2012, number of mobile telephone users increased by 15% from a year earlier to 1,419,073, whereas fixed-line telephone users decreased by 1% to 165,444. As regards internet services, number of subscribers reached 213,445 and the cumulative duration of usage totalled 153 million hours in the first quarter of 2012, up by 18% and 30% respectively.
