Transportation

Single-plate cars can travel northbound no more than thrice per month

Under new arrangements, each single-plate vehicle from Macau will only be accepted for northbound travel at most three times per month, the government announced.

The new arrangements took effect Oct. 1. Current successful applications will follow existing regulations.

From the same date, all applications must be submitted on the Northbound Travel for Macau Vehicles app, which can be downloaded from iOS App Store and Google Play.

Applications will be accepted on first-come-first-served basis, between 30 days and 10 p.m. the day before departure date. As there are quotas, applications will stop being accepted once quotas are met. Residual quotas will be released afterwards.

The remaining new requirement is that new applications for departures in the same month will only be accepted after the departure of the most imminent booking within the same calendar month.

However, bookings for subsequent months will be accepted, despite complying with this “use before new booking” requirement.

The ban on applications due to dishonored bookings will also be tightened. Also, any unused successful booking will equate to the ban on application for departures within the same month. For example, an unused booking on Nov. 1 will mean the suspension of applications for that particular applicant for departures within the rest of November. AL

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