Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 206,349 at the end of 2011, a year-on-year increase of 5%, of which motorcycles (111,198) and light private cars (81,014) accounted for 54% and 39% of the total respectively. New registration of motor vehicles went up by 11% year-on-year to 17,702 in 2011, with motorcycles and light private cars sharing 53% and 40% respectively. For the whole year of 2011, number of traffic accidents rose by 7% year-on-year to 14,102 cases, resulting in 5,517 victims and 12 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic by land between Macao and Mainland China increased by 8% year-on-year to 4,135,910 vehicle trips in 2011, of which vehicle traffic through the Border Gate accounted for 82%. Commercial flight movements at the Macao International Airport increased by 2% year-on-year to 35,404 in 2011, with Mainland China (34% of total); Taiwan, China (32%) and Thailand (9%) being the major routes. Helicopter flights between Macao and Hong Kong (16,299) and between Macao and Mainland China (3,671) recorded increases of 7% and 6% respectively. Passenger transport by sea between Macao and Hong Kong totalled 120,854 ferry trips in 2011, down by 445 year-on-year. Concurrently, ferry trips between Macao and Mainland China decreased by 3% year-on-year to 25,206. For the whole year of 2011, seaborne container throughput totalled 101,989 TEU or 75,129 containers handled, up by 12% and 14% respectively year-on-year. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo increased by 3% year-on-year to 182,959 tonnes, with 4,667 tonnes of transshipment goods. Gross weight of containerized cargo by land decreased by 23% to 35,093 tonnes, including 10,534 tonnes of transit goods. In 2011, outward air cargo (24,950 tonnes) and inward air cargo (9,826 tonnes) fell by 23% and 28% respectively, with that to and from Taiwan, China sharing 78% each. Meanwhile, transit air cargo decreased by 24% year-on-year to 4,748 tonnes. At the end of 2011, number of mobile telephone users increased by 21% from a year earlier to 1,353,194, whereas fixed-line telephone users decreased by 1% to 166,310. As regards internet services, number of subscribers reached 209,223 and the cumulative duration of usage totalled 528 million hours in 2011, up by 23% and 25% respectively.
