MACAO, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Macao's cross-border vehicle traffic in July grew 9.4 percent year-on-year to 454,059 trips, the special administrative region's statistic service said on Tuesday.
The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) showed that the vehicle trips passing through the Cotai Checkpoint rose 7.5 percent to 139,350, whereas those going through the Border Gate dropped 1.8 percent to 277,053.
The DSEC report added that there were 34,393 trips crossing the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in July.
In the first seven months of 2019, cross-border vehicular traffic increased 7.8 percent year-on-year to 3,059,062 trips.
Commercial flights at the Macao International Airport totaled 6,483 trips in July, up 19.5 percent year-on-year. Trips to and from Chinese mainland (2,736) and China's Taiwan region (1,134) showed respective increases of 32.4 percent and 0.7 percent.
Inbound and outbound commercial flights in the first seven months grew 19.4 percent year-on-year to 42,115 trips.
The licensed motor vehicles in Macao totaled 238,383 at the end of July 2019, up 152 year-on-year. Light automobiles (108,258) and heavy motorcycles (98,136) increased 0.9 percent and 1.8 percent respectively.
New registration of motor vehicles in July went up 0.8 percent year-on-year to 1,130. In the first seven months of 2019, however, new registration of motor vehicles declined 20.6 percent year-on-year to 6,844.
The number of traffic accidents grew 8.0 percent year-on-year to 1,167 in July, and the number of injuries totaled 327. In the first seven months, there were 7,337 traffic accidents, and the number of victims totaled 2,442 and 5 of them were killed.
