Transport statistics | Number of new motor vehicles falls

The number of new motor vehicles decreased 3.5 percent year-on-year to 19,653, with that of light private cars (7,947) falling by 11.5 percent.
According to statistics released yesterday by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 249,339 at the end of 2015, up by 3.8 percent year-on-year. Motorcycles and light private cars accounted for 52 and 41.3 percent respectively.
The number of traffic accidents registered during the year dropped by 1.4 percent year-on-year to 15,804 cases with 5,306 casualties, 15 of which were fatal.
Cross-border vehicle traffic for the whole of 2015 increased 3.9 percent year-on-year to 5,131,997 trips. Traffic through the Cotai checkpoint (1,114,288 trips) rose by 15.2 percent.
Passenger ferry movements totaled 145,385 trips, up 3.2 percent year-on-year, with trips via the Provisional Ferry Terminal in Taipa (36,858 trips) rising by 9.1 percent.
For the Macau International Airport, commercial flight movements increased 8.3 percent year-on-year to 52,182 trips. Flights to and from mainland China (38 percent), Taiwan (23.9 percent) and Thailand (12.8 percent) took the lead, while movements to and from Japan and Vietnam soared 35 and 25.9 percent respectively, over last year.
The airport handled 7,410 tonnes of inward air cargo, an increase of 11.1 percent year-on-­year, while outward air cargo (16,278 tonnes) edged down by 0.4 percent. Taiwan remained the major origin and destination for air cargo.

mobile users still on the rise

There were 146,138 fixed-line telephone subscribers at the end of 2015, a 4.9 percent drop from the previous year. Mobile telephone subscribers numbered 1,896,097 – a 2.1 percent increase – while the number of Internet subscribers was up 11 percent year-on-year to 338,899. For the whole of 2015, the cumulative duration of Internet usage (1.06 billion hours) rose 11.7 percent year-on-year.