Macau's cross-border vehicular traffic in February rose by 120.9 percent year-on-year to 303,539 trips, of which light automobile trips (285,558) and heavy truck trips (16,439) increased by 137.5 percent and 30.9 percent respectively, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
Macau confirmed its first COVID-19 case on January 22 last year. The local economy was severely affected by the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic last year. Cross-border travel restrictions with the Chinese mainland have been gradually eased since late last year.
In the first two months of this year, according to a DSEC statement last week, cross-border vehicular traffic (667,596 trips) and gross weight of containerised cargo by land (3,931 tonnes) increased by 18.8 percent and 19.1 percent year-on-year respectively.
Macau's cross-border vehicular traffic passes through several Macau-Zhuhai land border checkpoints as well as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge checkpoint.
Meanwhile, the number of licensed motor vehicles in Macau totalled 244,313 at the end of February, up by 1.5 percent year-on-yearThe number of light automobiles (111,606) and heavy motorcycles (103,171) grew by 1.8 percent and 3.2 percent year-on-year respectively.
As vehicle registration services were suspended for a period in February last year, the new registration of motor vehicles in February this year rose by 110.3 percent year-on-year to 917, of which heavy motorcycles (445) and light automobiles (435) increased by 131.8 percent and 95.9 percent respectively.
In the first two months, the new registration of motor vehicles increased by 62.6 percent year-on-year to 2,194.
The number of traffic accidents in February totalled 919, with 280 persons injured. In the first two months, there were 2,117 traffic accidents, which caused 676 injuries, the bureau said.
