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TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

Rail, Water, Land and Air Transportation Statistics
1999-2005

Item	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Registered Motor Vehicles	3,701,173	3,865,862	4,187,673	4,292,272	4,760,593	5,059,753
Cars	763,834	726,044	745,795	739,170	793,353	784,437
Utility vehicles	1,387,878	1,488,998	1,652,036	1,685,896	1,788,565	1,791,284
Buses	33,886	31,686	33,915	31,347	34,998	30,968
Trucks	248,345	253,568	257,747	255,478	267,930	266,854
Motorcycles/Tricycles	1,236,236	1,337,980	1,470,376	1,552,570	1,847,350	2,157,707
Trailers	26,589	23,699	23,734	23,840	23,117	23,917
Diplomatic	3,391	2,698	2,904	2,816	4,197	3,284
Exempt	1,014	1,189	1,166	1,155	1,083	1,302

Total Cargo Throughput (in metric tons)	149,836,156	147,850,999	149,457,449	146,655,873	157,367,181	155,250,027
Domestic	76,914,255	75,091,645	79,554,834	79,431,913
Foreign	72,164,629	71,978,669	69,520,194	66,854,035
Transit Cargo	757,272	780,685	382,421	369,925

Total Passenger Traffic	44,371,866	43,656,418	49,116,643	51,718,640
Disembarking	22,771,366	22,382,413	25,186,221	26,582,126
Embarking	21,600,500	21,274,005	23,930,422	25,136,514

Railway Movement 2
Passengers Carried ('000)	3,878.3	5,105.7	4,357.1	3,900.4
Passenger Revenues ('000 pesos)	82,126.0	97,631.0	85,662.8	82,552.0

No. of Registered Airports	172	157	174	163
National	85	87	87	85
Private	87	70	87	78

¹ Includes tricycles.
² Total for both the Philippine National Railways and the Metro Manila Rail Commuter.

Sources:

1. Rail Transport: Philippine National Railways
2. Land Transport: Land Transportation Office
3. Water Transport: Philippine Ports Authority
4. Air Transport: Philippine Air Lines

Number of Licensed Radio Stations, by Type of Station
1999-2004

Type of station	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
TOTAL	219,333	193,774	227,856	197,854	184,944
Government /1	20,958	22,037	24,461	26,895	9,579
Private	198,375	171,737	203,395	170,959	175,365
Broadcast radio stations	588	363	-	613	742
Broadcast AM	281	355	305	306	314
Broadcast FM	304	537	304	304	426
Broadcast SW	3	49	3	3	2
Television stations	76	194	64	79	97
Fixed point to point stations	10,165	7,474	2,171	2,659	3,748
Commercial CP	1,367	826	-	564	763
Non-commercial CV	8,798	3,463	2,171	2,095	2,985
Coastal station	840	949	935	986	877
Aircraft radio station	573	618	622	628	637
Land base radio station	6,966	4,348	8,591	6,531	5,832
Land mobile radio station	15,997	6,602	16,674	16,676	11,170
Citizens band radio station	32	29	32	32	29
Amateur radio stations	35,177	21,588	34,694	32,814	31,416
Radio training stations	150	334	304	303	288
Fixed aeronautical stations	92	77	88	85	71
Ship stations	3,882	3,844	4,069	4,131	3,628
Maritime portable stations	-	-	-	-	-
Repeater stations	947	678	1,077	1,098	1,079
TV relay/translator	98	69	101	102	76
Portable	37,688	40,343	45,166	47,752	49,418
Radio navigation	25	23	25	25	23
Special stations/Earth stations	1	1	1	1	54
Cellular Base	348	626	1,133	1,209	1,445
PRS Base	8,659	7,153	8,806	8,461	6,787
Cellular Mobile	23,920	28,025	28,025	-	-
PRS Mobile	6,095	4,265	6,029	5,967	5,387
PRS Port	17,826	16,141	18,185	17,765	12,357
PRS ML/P	249	320	224	224	-
PRS M SRA	-	-	-	-	-
TVRO	320	217	345	375	458
TVRO License	13	18	78	81	97
CATV	654	1,162	689	669	637
STL/Remote Control	-	-	-	-	26
BC AUX Transmitter	14	10	17	17	14
Remote Pick-up/BC(HF/SSB)	-	-	-	-	-
GPRS/Mobile/GPRS/Base/GPRS/PORTA	5,297	1,714	973	5,348	3,724
Portable (CO)	2,006	2,332	2,556	2,715	13,065
Land ML (CO)	185	209	219	232	867
Paging Station	-	-	-	-	30
Paging Base	55	55	52	54	5
Paging Subscriber	6,780	6,780	6,780	-	-
VSAT Subscriber	-	-	5	-	-
VSAT Service	7	10	7	7	-
VSAT Station	61	150	40	52	50
Fishing	682	1,771	776	1,945	1,607
Civic Action	791	496	821	810	644
Trunk Base	21	150	21	21	20
Dealers/Supplier	117	178	91	104	35
Service Centers	49	9	49	50	11
SRA	174	174	-	179	5,400
Trunk RPTR	2	5	2	2	3
Others	-	-	-	10,157	13,511

Type of Station	2004
Total	194,537
Government	8,630
Private	185,907
Aeronautical	74
Aircraft	632
Aircraft (GPS)	13
Amateur	31,035
Citizen's Band	4
Civic Action Groups	637
Coastal	896
Dealers/suppliers	67
Fishing Vessel	1,741
Fixed (Pt to Pt, CO)	832
Fixed (Pt. To Pt) (CV)	1,893
Fixed (VHF/UHF) (CV)	17
Fixed /Land Based (FX/FB) (CO)	1,463
Fixed/Base Porta (FX/P)	12
Fixed/Land Base (Fx/FB) (CV)	2,158
FX/CP	442
FX/CV	3,249
Land Base (FB) (CO)	4,479
Land Base (FB) (CV)	2,360
Land Base (FX) (CO)	5
Land ML	10,875
Land ML (CO)	81
Mobile (CO)	1,637
Mobile (CV)	4,907
Mobile Porta (MLP) (CV)	2,081
Portable	26,848
Portable (CO)	14,268
Portable (CV)	27,024
Pt. To Pt. (Co, CV, CP)	1,806
Radio Navigation	23
Radio Training Station	280
Repeater	539
Rptr. (CO)	43
Rptr. (CV)	495
Service Centers	17
Ship	3,755
GPRS	3,608
Land Base	362
Mobile	306
Portable	1,963
SRA	5,480
Land Base	1,426
Mobile	1,433
Portable	2,621
PRS	24,797
Land Base	6,824
Base/Porta (FB/P)	68
Mobile	5,552
Portable	12,292
Cellphone (Dealer/SVC)	61
Broadcast	2,085
TVRO Commercial	460
TVRO Non-Commercial	81
CATV	641
AM BC	312
FM BC	422
SW BC	2
TV (VHF)	81
TV (UHF)	9
TV X-lator/Relay	76
LMDS/MMDS BC	-
Pay TV	1
DTU/DTH	-
BC Auxilliary	35
STL	22
Rptr.	-
Land Base	2
Mobile	-
Portable	-
CCAD	3,187
Earth Station	15
Paging Base	32
VSAT Station	54
Trunk Base	20
Trunk Rptr.	3
Broadband	-
Cellular Base Station	2,558
Fixed (Pt. To Pt.) (CP)	502
FX/FB (GPS)	3

¹ - Excludes radio stations operated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Source: National Telecommunications Commission.


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