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Transport and communications statistics for the 4th quarter of 2017


Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that total number of licensed motor vehicles as at the end of 2017 dropped by 3.6% year-on-year to 241,457, of which light motorcycles (29,352) and light automobiles (107,403) decreased by 20.7% and 3.7% respectively, whereas heavy motorcycles (96,922) rose by 3.0%. New registration of motor vehicles in the fourth quarter rose by 29.0% year-on-year to 4,975, and that for the whole year of 2017 went up by 20.6% year-on-year to 16,803 on account of an increase of 34.8% in heavy motorcycles (9,880).

There were 3,630 cases of traffic accidents in the fourth quarter of 2017 and number of victims totalled 1,167, down by 16.4% and 8.5% respectively year-on-year. For the whole year of 2017, number of traffic accidents fell by 4.1% year-on-year to 14,717 cases, resulting in 4,714 casualties and 8 of them were killed.

Cross-border vehicle traffic totalled 1,233,691 in the fourth quarter of 2017, up slightly by 0.8% year-on-year. In 2017, cross-border vehicle traffic decreased by 5.0% year-on-year to 4,818,794, with vehicle traffic through the Border Gate (72.3% of total) dropping by 9.2%. Passenger ferry movements between Macao and Mainland China and between Macao and Hong Kong went down by 4.7% year-on-year to 34,255 trips in the fourth quarter, and movements for the whole year of 2017 fell by 1.4% to 138,684 trips.

Commercial flight movements at the Macau International Airport totalled 14,505 in the fourth quarter of 2017, up by 13.0% year-on-year. For the whole year of 2017, commercial flight movements increased by 2.3% year-on-year to 54,842; flight movements to and from Mainland China and the Republic of Korea grew by 4.3% and 64.2% respectively, while those to and from Thailand and Taiwan dropped by 24.9% and 7.2% respectively. Helicopter flight movements between Macao and Mainland China and between Macao and Hong Kong went up by 5.6% year-on-year to 3,844 in the fourth quarter, and those in 2017 rose by 9.3% to 12,744.

Gross weight of containerized cargo by land and by sea in the fourth quarter of 2017 totalled 2,304 tonnes and 38,203 tonnes respectively, down by 26.7% and 15.6% year-on-year. Seaborne container throughput amounted to 35,438 TEU, equivalent to 24,439 containers handled, up by 5.3% and 5.0% respectively. For the whole year of 2017, gross weight of containerized cargo by land dropped by 33.1% year-on-year to 13,892 tonnes, of which cargo passing through the Checkpoint of Cotai (12,918 tonnes) accounted for 93.0%. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo also fell by 10.6% year-on-year to 160,483 tonnes in 2017, with 53.7% (86,139 tonnes) passing through the Inner Harbour; seaborne container throughput edged up by 0.3% year-on-year to 129,798 TEU, equivalent to 90,318 containers handled, up by 1.4%.

The Macau International Airport handled 10,990 tonnes of air cargo in the fourth quarter of 2017, up by 8.9% year-on-year. In 2017, air cargo increased by 14.0% year-on-year to 37,493 tonnes, with inward cargo (6,643 tonnes), outward cargo (23,356 tonnes) and transit cargo (7,494 tonnes) rising by 3.4%, 19.0% and 9.5% respectively. For the whole year of 2017, Taiwan was the major origin and destination of inward and outward air cargo, constituting 54.9% and 45.4% of the respective total; meanwhile, outward air cargo to Vietnam (2,987 tonnes) surged by 50.4% year-on-year.

As at the end of 2017, number of fixed-line telephone subscribers decreased by 5.3% year-on-year to 131,839. Number of mobile phone subscribers rose by 14.2% to 2,249,124, of which stored-value GSM card subscribers (1,505,863) accounted for 67.0%. Number of internet subscribers increased by 9.1% year-on-year to 396,596. In the fourth quarter of 2017, the cumulative duration of internet usage grew by 7.5% year-on-year to 319 million hours, and the duration of usage in 2017 reached 1.24 billion hours, up by 6.4%.



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