Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that new registration of motor vehicles decreased by 44.9% year-on-year to 932 in March 2016. In the first quarter of 2016, new registration of motor vehicles dropped by 27.6% year-on-year to 4,001, with that of motorcycles (2,241) and light private cars (1,299) falling by 23.4% and 42.1% respectively. Total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 249,215 at the end of March 2016, up by 3.0% year-on-year; motorcycles and light private cars accounted for 52.0% and 41.2% respectively of the total. Traffic casualties totalled 408 in March, with 3 being killed. Number of traffic accidents in the first quarter increased by 2.7% year-on-year to 3,874 cases, resulting in 1,200 casualties and 4 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic totalled 432,917 trips in March 2016, up slightly by 0.4% year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2016, cross-border vehicle traffic edged down by 0.3% year-on-year to 1,258,172 trips, of which vehicle traffic through the Border Gate took up 77.5%. Passenger ferry movements between Macao and Mainland China and between Macao and Hong Kong decreased by 4.7% year-on-year to 11,602 trips in March, while movements in the first quarter (34,578 trips) dropped by 3.7%. Commercial flight movements at the Macao International Airport totalled 4,516 in March 2016, up by 5.8% year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2016, commercial flight movements increased by 8.0% year-on-year to 13,709 trips, with movements to and from Mainland China, Thailand and Taiwan rising by 1.1%, 24.0% and 15.5% respectively; meanwhile, flight movements to and from Vietnam decreased by 21.1%. Helicopter flight movements between Macao and Mainland China and between Macao and Hong Kong declined notably by 41.0% year-on-year to 630 trips in March, while movements in the first quarter (2,371 trips) fell by 36.8%. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo dropped by 26.5% year-on-year to 17,315 tonnes in March 2016. Seaborne container throughput totalled 10,928 TEU, equivalent to 7,413 containers handled, down by 20.6% and 20.3% respectively year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2016, gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo decreased by 24.3% year-on-year to 47,740 tonnes, of which 54.9% (26,212 tonnes) passed through Ka Ho Harbour; seaborne container throughput (31,575 TEU) and containers handled (21,303) dropped by 11.1% and 11.0% respectively. Gross weight of containerized cargo by land rose by 23.8% year-on-year to 1,914 tonnes in March. In the first quarter of 2016, gross weight of containerized cargo by land surged by 63.4% year-on-year to 6,957 tonnes, of which cargo through the Checkpoint of Cotai (5,945 tonnes) soared by 85.2%. The Macao International Airport handled 2,838 tonnes of air cargo in March 2016, up by 30.0% year-on-year, owing to a 49.4% growth in outward air cargo (1,669 tonnes). In the first quarter of 2016, inward air cargo (1,470 tonnes) decreased by 13.4% year-on-year while outward air cargo (4,168 tonnes) increased by 21.5%; inward air cargo from Taiwan (59.2% of total) dropped by 16.9% whereas outward air cargo to Taiwan (40.1% of total) rose by 11.9%. Transit air cargo (1,527 tonnes) increased by 12.0% year-on-year in the first quarter. At the end of March 2016, number of fixed-line telephone subscribers decreased by 5.6% year-on-year to 143,488. Number of mobile telephone subscribers increased by 1.9% to 1,883,544, of which stored-value GSM card subscribers (1,209,173) accounted for 64.2%. Number of internet subscribers increased by 10.8% year-on-year to 344,917. In the first quarter of 2016, the cumulative duration of internet usage (288 million hours) rose by 13.7% year-on-year.
