The National Statistics Office has advised that Transport Malta has released the latest Transport Statistics Publication, which refers
to the year 2020.
The publication provides a collection [1] of detailed statistics on air, sea and road transport.
In the publication, for Gozo, the salient points are; relating to road transport, it was noted that the Gozo and Comino district registered the highest number of vehicles per 1,000 residents
at 1,179.
While with sea transport – the average rate of passengers and vehicles per trip crossing between Malta and Gozo amounted to 130 and 53 respectively.
General salient points:
Air Transport
… passenger traffic at the MIA decreased by 76.0% when compared to 2019.
… UK and Italy remained the two most popular destinations in terms of total passengers’ movement, registering decreases in
passengers’ movement over 2019 by 79.9% and 76.8% respectively.
Sea Transport
… the stock of vessels registered under the Maltese flag amounted to 8,168.
… cruise liner embarkations from Malta and landings in Malta both decreased by 99.9% over 2019.
… the average rate of passengers and vehicles per trip crossing between Malta and Gozo amounted to 130 and 53 respectively.
… Passengers carried between Valletta and The Three Cities totalled 179,249 (-68.7%), while those carried between Valletta and Sliema
totalled 227,589 (-75.0%).
Road Transport
… the number of reported traffic accidents decreased by 24.5% over 2019, with 34.7% of these accidents recorded in the Northern
Harbour district.
… traffic casualties decreased by 28.4% over 2019.
… injuries sustained by 10 drivers, one passenger and one pedestrian proved fatal. … the stock of licensed motor vehicles increased
at an average net rate of 13 vehicles per day.
… passenger cars accounted for 76.6% of total licensed motor vehicles but motorcycle/e-bicycle/pa-bicycle registered the largest
increase at 6.1% over 2019.
… 59.3% of total licensed motor vehicles had petrol engines.
… alternative powered motor vehicles registered an increase of 26.5% over 2019.
… newly licensed motor vehicles amounted to 19,480, or 27.3 per cent less than 2019.
… 58.50% of newly licensed motor vehicles were used.
… the number of licensed motor vehicles per 1,000 residents went up to 780 from 773 in 2019.
… The Gozo and Comino district registered the highest number of vehicles per 1,000 residents at 1,179, whereas the Northern Harbour
registered the lowest ratio with 618 vehicles per 1,000 residents.
… a total of 172 vehicles were stolen, a decrease of 31.2% over 2019.
… a total of 217,360 traffic-related contraventions were issued by the police, wardens and Transport Malta. Speed cameras’
contraventions totalled 43,269 or an average of 118 per day.
… 36.6% of total driving licence holders were aged between 40 and 59 years.
… Public Transport commuters totalled 33,778,974, a decrease of 41.2% over 2019.
… total distance travelled by all licensed vehicles in Malta was estimated to be almost 2,500 million km.
… passenger cars were driven the most with 1,878 million km or 77.0% of the total distance travelled.
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