Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 241,955 at the end of March 2015, up by 5.2% year-on-year; motorcycles and light private cars accounted for 51.9% and 41.4% respectively. In the first quarter of 2015, new registration of motor vehicles increased by 11.3% year-on-year to 5,523, of which new registration of motorcycles accounted for 53.0%. Number of traffic accidents totalled 3,771 cases, up by 1.0% year-on-year, resulting in 1,377 casualties and 5 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic reached 1,261,713 trips in the first quarter of 2015, up by 6.0% year-on-year; vehicle traffic through the Border Gate (970,632 trips) shared 76.9%. Passenger ferry movements between Macao and Hong Kong and between Macao and Mainland China totalled 35,900, an increase of 2.4% year-on-year, with the Ferry Terminal at the Outer Harbour sharing 66.5% of the total (23,875). The Macao International Airport had 12,696 commercial flight movements in the first quarter of 2015, an increase of 9.8% year-on-year. Movements to and from Mainland China and Taiwan increased by 4.0% and 3.9% respectively, while those to and from Vietnam (806) rose by more than 3-fold. Helicopter flight movements between Macao and Hong Kong and between Macao and Mainland China (3,749) increased slightly by 0.3% year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2015, seaborne container throughput totalled 35,531 TEU, equivalent to 23,937 containers handled, up by 15.6% and 9.8% respectively year-on-year. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo increased by 10.7% to 63,141 tonnes; meanwhile, gross weight of containerized cargo by land decreased by 13.7%, at 4,270 tonnes. Outward air cargo increased by 5.1% year-on-year to 3,430 tonnes; meanwhile, inward air cargo decreased by 1.8% to 1,698 tonnes. Taiwan remained the major origin and destination of inward and outward air cargo, accounting for 61.7% and 43.6% of the respective total. Transit air cargo increased by 15.3% year-on-year to 1,363 tonnes. At the end of March 2015, number of fixed-line telephone subscribers decreased by 3.3% year-on-year to 151,951. Meanwhile, number of mobile telephone subscribers increased by 11.1% to 1,847,745, of which stored-value GSM card subscribers shared 64.6%. As regards internet services, number of subscribers totalled 311,283 and the cumulative duration of usage reached 253 million hours in the first quarter of 2015, up by 13.1% and 11.8% respectively year-on-year.
