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Transport Roads The 1 944 km of roads (as at end-2004) carry 532 872 licensed vehicles, or about 274 vehicles per kilometre Bridges Longest: Tsing Ma suspension bridge (main span 1 377 metres) and the cable-stayed Ting Kau Bridge (two main spans totalling 923 metres) Air movements 2004—237 308 flights; 36.29 million passengers; 3.09 million tonnes of freight Shipping movements 2004—35 900 ocean vessel arrivals; 35 470 departures; port cargo throughput 220.9 million tonnes Container throughput 2004—21.98 million TEUs Notes: figures presented on this page refer to those released up to end-March 2005 # provisional figures † less than 0.005 million