Cross-border vehicle traffic hikes 71% in March

Macau’s cross-border vehicle traffic in March hiked by 71.2% year on year to 573,022 trips. The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service showed that the gross weight of port containerized cargo went up 24.2% year on year to 18,214 tonnes last month. With an increase in the demand for air passenger transport services, arriving and departing commercial flights soared by 161% year on year to 2,519 trips in March. The report showed that traffic accidents last month decreased 0.9% year on year to 1,055, with one person killed and 357 injured.