Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 229,999 at the end of March 2014, up by 5% year-on-year, of which motorcycles and light private cars accounted for 52% and 41% respectively. New registration of motor vehicles increased by 2% year-on-year to 4,962 in the first quarter of 2014. In the first quarter of 2014, number of traffic accidents totalled 3,733 cases, up by 9% year-on-year, resulting in 1,192 casualties and 5 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic totalled 1,189,846 vehicle trips in the first quarter of 2014, up by 6% year-on-year; vehicle traffic through the Border Gate shared 81%. Meanwhile, passenger ferry between Macao and Hong Kong and between Macao and Mainland China totalled 35,068 ferry trips, an increase of 44 trips year-on-year; ferry traffic through the Outer Harbour accounted for the largest number of 23,669 ferry trips. Commercial flight movements at the Macao International Airport increased by 9% year-on-year to 11,567 in the first quarter of 2014, of which flight movements to and from Mainland China accounted for 40%. Helicopter flights between Macao and Hong Kong and between Macao and Mainland China totalled 3,736, down by 19% year-on-year, attributable to a 18% decrease in flights between Macao and Hong Kong. Seaborne container throughput totalled 30,736 TEU in the first quarter of 2014, equivalent to 21,795 containers handled, up by 2% and 1% respectively year-on-year. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo (57,275 tonnes) and containerized cargo by land (4,985 tonnes) increased by 30% and 13% respectively year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2014, outward air cargo decreased by 4% year-on-year to 3,262 tonnes; meanwhile, inward air cargo increased by 27% to 1,730 tonnes, mainly due to increase in air cargo from Japan and Mainland China. Taiwan remained the major origin and destination of inward and outward air cargo, accounting for 48% and 41% of the respective total. Transit air cargo decreased by 3% year-on-year to 1,182 tonnes. At the end of March 2014, number of fixed-line telephone users decreased by 3% year-on-year to 157,155. Meanwhile, number of mobile telephone users increased by 7% to 1,662,547. As regards internet services, number of subscribers totalled 275,221 and the cumulative duration of usage reached 226 million hours in the first quarter of 2014, up by 16% and 17% respectively year-on-year.
