Motorcyclists sit in traffic in Macau, China, on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Las Vegas Sands Corp., the worldís largest casino operator, reported second-quarter sales and profit that missed analystsí forecasts, as gambling revenue slowed in Macau, the worldís No. 1 market. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
Registration of motor vehicles in the first three quarters of this year went up by 17.4 percent year-on-year to 11,828, according to data released yesterday by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The bureau attributes the surge to the increase in the registration of “heavy motorcycles.”
Despite the increase in new registration of vehicles, at the end of September 2017, the total number of licensed motor vehicles dropped by 3 percent year- on-year to 241,411.
The number of traffic accidents in the first three quarters of 2017 rose slightly by 0.8 percent year- on-year to 11,087 cases, resulting in 3,547 injured persons and six deaths.
DSEC also indicated that cross- border vehicle traffic decreased by 6.8 percent year-on-year to 3,585,103 in the first three quarters of 2017. Passenger ferry movements between Macau and mainland China and between Macau and Hong Kong edged down by 0.3 percent to 104,429 trips.
In the first three quarters of the year, commercial flight movements went slightly down by 1.1 percent year-on-year to 40,337. Flight movements to and from mainland China and the Republic of Korea grew by 2.6 percent and 78.5 percent respectively, while movements to and from Thailand and Taiwan dropped by 28.5 percent and 11.4 percent respectively.
Air cargo increased by 16.2 percent year-on-year to 26,503 tonnes.
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