Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 243,966 at the end of June 2015, up by 4.9% year-on-year; motorcycles and light private cars accounted for 51.9% and 41.4% respectively. New registration of motor vehicles in June decreased notably by 24.5% year-on-year to 1,337, with that of motorcycles and light private cars dropping by 22.2% and 36.0% respectively; new registration of motor vehicles in the first half year of 2015 increased by 2.3% year-on-year to 10,046. Traffic accident casualties totalled 388 in June, with 2 being killed. In the first half year of 2015, number of traffic accidents totalled 7,617 cases, up by 1.3% year-on-year, resulting in 2,675 casualties and 9 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic totalled 418,469 trips in June 2015, up by 2.9% year-on-year. In the first half year of 2015, cross-border vehicle traffic increased by 4.9% year-on-year to 2,530,799 trips; vehicle traffic through the Border Gate (1,953,526 trips) shared 77.2%. Passenger ferry movements between Macao and Hong Kong and between Macao and Mainland China totalled 72,677 in the first half year, an increase of 3.9% year-on-year, with the Ferry Terminal at the Outer Harbour sharing 66.7% of the total (48,452 trips). The Macao International Airport had 4,129 commercial flight movements in June 2015, up by 7.8% year-on-year. In the first half year of 2015, commercial flight movements increased by 8.7% year-on-year to 25,480, with movements to and from Mainland China, Taiwan and Thailand rising by 4.9%, 2.8% and 7.2% respectively. Meanwhile, helicopter flight movements between Macao and Hong Kong and between Macao and Mainland China totalled 1,210 in June, down significantly by 23.6% year-on-year; helicopter flight movements in the first half year of 2015 decreased by 9.2% year-on-year to 7,046. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo surged by 26.5% year-on-year to 22,725 tonnes in June 2015 and increased by 8.3% to 133,077 tonnes in the first half year of 2015. Seaborne container throughput totalled 12,665 TEU in June, equivalent to 8,690 containers handled, up by 7.3% and 7.0% respectively year-on-year; seaborne container throughput (74,340 TEU) and containers handled (50,010) in the first half year of 2015 increased by 7.9% and 3.9% respectively. Gross weight of containerized cargo by land fell by 31.4% year-on-year to 2,111 tonnes in June and decreased by 15.7% to 10,148 tonnes in the first half year of 2015. The Macao International Airport handled 2,263 tonnes of air cargo in June 2015, up by 5.2% year-on-year. In the first half year of 2015, inward air cargo (3,486 tonnes) and outward air cargo (7,364 tonnes) increased by 10.1% and 3.1% respectively year-on-year. Taiwan remained the major origin and destination of air cargo; inward air cargo from Taiwan (59.8% of total) surged by 27.6% year-on-year while outward air cargo to Taiwan (40.1% of total) decreased by 3.4%. Transit air cargo increased by 17.3% year-on-year to 3,109 tonnes. At the end of June 2015, number of fixed-line telephone subscribers decreased by 3.5% year-on-year to 150,640. Number of mobile telephone subscribers increased by 10.5% to 1,864,955, of which stored-value GSM card subscribers shared 64.2%. As regards internet services, number of subscribers totalled 316,593 and the cumulative duration of usage in the first half year of 2015 reached 518 million hours, up by 11.2% and 12.0% respectively year-on-year.
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