Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that the total number of licensed motor vehicles reached 213,992 at the end of September 2012, a year-on-year increase of 5%, of which motorcycles (114,170) and light private cars (85,420) accounted for 53% and 40% respectively. New registration of motor vehicles edged down by 1% year-on-year to 13,128 in the first three quarters of 2012, with motorcycles and light private cars each sharing 47% of the total. In the first nine months of 2012, number of traffic accidents rose by 6% year-on-year to 10,981 cases, resulting in 3,956 victims and 12 of them were killed. Cross-border vehicle traffic by land between Macao and Mainland China increased by 8% year-on-year to 3,293,805 vehicle trips in the first three quarters of 2012, of which vehicle traffic through the Border Gate accounted for 84%. Commercial flight movements at the Macao International Airport increased by 7% year-on-year to 28,246 in the first nine months of 2012, with Mainland China (37% of total); Taiwan, China (28%) and Thailand (13%) being the major routes. Helicopter flights between Macao and Hong Kong (11,110) and between Macao and Mainland China (2,514) each went down by 7% year-on-year. Passenger ferry between Macao and Hong Kong totalled 84,929 ferry trips in the first nine months of 2012, down by 7% year-on-year. Passenger ferry between Macao and Mainland China increased by 8% year-on-year to 20,023 ferry trips. In the first three quarters of 2012, seaborne container throughput totalled 87,615 TEU or 64,600 containers handled, up by 19% and 18% respectively year-on-year. Gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo increased by 19% year-on-year to 153,911 tonnes, with 4,731 tonnes of transshipment goods. Gross weight of containerized cargo by land decreased by 8% to 23,952 tonnes, including 8,486 tonnes of transit goods. In the first nine months of 2012, outward (11,948 tonnes) and inward air cargo (4,689 tonnes) fell by 34% and 36% respectively year-on-year. Transit air cargo decreased by 4% year-on-year to 3,512 tonnes. At the end of September 2012, number of mobile telephone users increased by 19% from a year earlier to 1,532,619, whereas fixed-line telephone users decreased by 2% to 163,449. As regards internet services, number of subscribers reached 224,663 and the cumulative duration of usage in the first nine months of 2012 totalled 493 million hours, up by 10% and 29% respectively year-on-year.
