Transport | Auto sales down

New registration of motor vehicles decreased by 40.1 percent year-on-year to 979 in September 2016, according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). For the first three quarters of 2016, new registrations dropped by 31.7 percent year-­on-year to 10,078, with that of motorcycles (5,785) and light automobiles (3,785) falling by 25.3 percent and 41.9 percent respectively.
With the new registrations, the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 249,013 at the end of September 2016, up by 1.2 percent year-on-year, with motorcycles and light automobiles accounting for 52.3 percent and 44.6 percent of the respective total.
Cross-border vehicle traffic amounted to some 413,000 trips in September, down by one percent year-on-year, while in the first three quarters of the year, it rose slightly by 0.7 percent year-on-year to nearly 3.85 million trips. Vehicles passing through the border gate accounted for 76.8 percent of the total, according to the DSEC statement.