DOCSLIB.ORG

Hong Kong: the Facts

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Hong Kong: the Facts The Port Hong Kong is fortunate in having a sheltered natural harbour, metres to enable ultra large container vessels to access Kwai which provides good access and a safe haven for vessels Tsing container terminals at all tides which helps maintain calling at the port from around the world. Hong Kong as one of major ports of Southern China. The port has always been a key factor in the Hong Kong handled 18.0 million TEUs in 2020, development and prosperity of Hong Kong, which is making it one of the world’s busiest container ports. Of the strategically located on the Far East trade routes and is in the total container throughput, some 14.5 million TEUs were geographical centre of the now fast-developing Asia- Pacific handled at Kwai Tsing Container Terminals, while about 3.5 Basin. million TEUs were handled in mid-stream and other wharves. In terms of tonnage of shipping using its facilities, cargo handled and the number of passengers carried, Hong Cross-boundary Ferry Services: In 2020, the Hong Kong is one of the major ports of the world. Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal in Sheung Wan, the China Ferry Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui and the Tuen Mun Ferry Terminal Administration: Responsibility for administering the port is in Tuen Mun provided ferry services to Macao and 11 ports in vested in the Director of Marine. The Port Operations the Mainland. About 80 vessels, mostly high-speed Committee advises the director on all matters affecting the passenger craft such as jetfoils and catamarans, operated efficient operations of the port of Hong Kong, except those from these terminals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the under the purview of the Pilotage Advisory Committee and cross-boundary ferry services have been suspended since the Local Vessels Advisory Committee. early 2020. The Marine Department ensures that conditions exist to enable ships to enter the port, work their cargoes and Government Fleet: The government fleet, with more than leave as quickly and as safely as possible. It is concerned 900 vessels, serves 14 government departments such as the with many aspects of safety and pollution prevention Hong Kong Police Force, the Customs and Excise standards for all classes and types of vessels, from the Department, and the Fire Services Department. Of these, the largest container vessels to the smallest passenger-carrying Marine Department manages 82 vessels for its port sampans. It also maintains aids to navigation and mooring operations and serving other government departments which buoys for sea-going ships, manages three cross-boundary do not have their own fleets. These vessels include patrol ferry terminals and six public cargo working areas. The launches, purposely built conveyance launches, pontoons Department’s website (https://www.mardep.gov.hk/) provides and some specialised vessels such as hydrographic survey a wide range of information on the port and the Hong Kong launches and explosive carriers. Apart from the above Shipping Register. Government vessels, in 2020, the Marine Department has The Hong Kong Maritime and Port Board was also deployed 33 vessels provided under contract by private established on April 1, 2016. Chaired by the Secretary for operators to provide conveyance launches and tugboat Transport and Housing, the Board provides a high-level services. platform for closer collaboration among the Government, the The Government Dockyard is responsible for the industry and relevant stakeholders to set the direction for the design, procurement and maintenance of all vessels owned long-term development of Hong Kong Port, shipping and the by the Government. It occupies a site of 9.8 hectares on respective maritime services. Stonecutters Island and has an 8.3-hectare protected water basin as an operational base for vessels operated by the Shipping: Hong Kong continues to flourish as a hub port Marine Department, the Hong Kong Police Force, the serving the South Asian Pacific region and acting as an Customs and Excise Department, and the Fire Services important entrepot for the Mainland of China and a Department. The dockyard has 10 covered docking sheds, transshipment port in the region. At present, transshipment four movable canopies and 30 open-yard docking spaces for cargo accounted for around 60% of our container throughput. repair and maintenance of vessels. The dockyard also has a During 2020, a total of 88 000 sea-going vessels and ship-lift system and three ship travel hoists capable of shifting river-trade vessels arrived Hong Kong. vessels of up to 750 tonnes to dry docks. An on-line computerised information system is employed to co-ordinate Containerisation: The Kwai Tsing Container Terminals, the maintenance activities and support services to maximise located in the north-western part of the harbour, has nine maintenance efficiency and vessel availability. container terminals with 24 berths along about 7 794 metres of deep water frontage. It covers a total terminal area of about Dry Docks and Slipways: There are extensive facilities for 279 hectares which includes container yards and container repairing, maintaining, dry-docking and slipping of all types of freight stations. The nine container terminals have a total vessels in Hong Kong. Two large shipyards, located off the handling capacity of over 20 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent west coast of Tsing Yi Island, operate three floating dry docks. units) a year. The navigation depth of the Kwai Tsing port The largest has a lifting capacity of up to 46 000 tonnes. basin and the approaching channel have been dredged to 17 There are also a number of smaller shipyards, which carry promptly initiate and co-ordinate actions required to facilitate out repairs to vessels. safe navigation in the port. Vessels conveying dangerous goods in the waters Port Facilities and Services: The Marine Department of Hong Kong are to strictly comply with the International operates and maintains 15 mooring buoys for sea-going Maritime Dangerous Goods Code. The required dangerous vessels. Of these eight are suitable for ships up to 183 metres goods manifests submitted for these vessels are recorded in in length, three for ships up to 160 metres and four for ships the Marine Department’s Dangerous Goods Information up to 137 metres. Among all these mooring buoys, six of System. them are typhoon mooring buoys to which ships can remain Fire-fighting and rescue vessels operated by the secured during tropical cyclones. This improves efficiency Fire Services Department are kept in a state of operational and reduces operational costs of vessels as additional preparedness at all times. The pollution control vessels of the movements can be avoided during adverse weather Marine Department’s contractor are on 24-hour standby to conditions. deal with oil spills. In addition to the three Immigration and Quarantine To facilitate transfer of cargoes between vessels Anchorages designated for visiting vessels to complete port and shores, and cargoes to and from Pearl River ports, the formalities, there are eight dangerous goods and 13 Marine Department provides and manages six public cargo general-purpose anchorages providing temporary berthing working areas in various parts of Hong Kong with a total berth spaces for vessels. The areas and water depths of the length of 4 852 metres. anchorages differ and serve different sizes and draughts of Bulk handling facilities for coal and oil are provided ships calling at Hong Kong. at the power generating stations at Tap Shek Kok in Castle The Marine Department maintained more than 570 Peak and at Po Lo Tsui on Lamma Island. modern marine aids to navigation in Hong Kong waters to To ensure navigational safety, the Hydrographic guide visiting ships to and from their berths. The aids to Office (HO) of the Marine Department is responsible for navigation are constantly improving the reliability and surveying Hong Kong waters and producing nautical charts efficiency to ensure greater safety. All fairway buoys are lit for mariners. In compliance with the standards of the and fitted with radar reflectors. Traffic Separation Schemes International Hydrographic Organization, the HO promulgates are implemented in the East Lamma Channel and Tathong fortnightly Notices to Mariners to update the bilingual nautical Channel to facilitate traffic management and enhance charts as well as the Electronic Navigational Charts. It also navigational safety. broadcasts continually on 289 kHz Differential Global The Marine Department’s VHF radio network Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) correction signal for provides comprehensive marine communication coverage mariners using DGNSS receiver to more accurately fix the throughout the harbour and its approaches. The department’s position. Tidal Stream Prediction Service for Hong Kong Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) maintains waters and the real-time tidal information of several tide direct contact with emergency response services, which gauges along the coastline are available on the HO’s website include the Government Flying Service, Marine Police and at https://www.hydro.gov.hk/eng/services.php. Fire Services Department. The MRCC operates 24-hour a The Director of Marine is the Pilotage Authority. day throughout the year and is equipped with Global Maritime Pilotage is compulsory for ships of 3 000 gross tonnage or Distress and Safety Systems for maritime distress alert over in general and gas carriers of any gross tonnage. monitoring. It co-ordinates assistance to any vessels in Quarantine and immigration facilities are available distress within the Hong Kong Search and Rescue Region in on a 24-hour basis. Advance immigration clearance and radio the South China Sea. pratique may be obtained by certain vessels on application. A comprehensive Vessel Traffic Service (VTS), with radar surveillance and tracking capabilities as well as a fully Hong Kong Shipping Register: Hong Kong is an integrated data handling sub-system, covers all navigable international maritime centre.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Hongkong a Study in Economic Freedom
    HongKOng A Study In Economic Freedom Alvin Rabushka Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace Stanford University The 1976-77 William H. Abbott Lectures in International Business and Economics The University of Chicago • Graduate School of Business © 1979 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. ISBN 0-918584-02-7 Contents Preface and Acknowledgements vn I. The Evolution of a Free Society 1 The Market Economy 2 The Colony and Its People 10 Resources 12 An Economic History: 1841-Present 16 The Political Geography of Hong Kong 20 The Mother Country 21 The Chinese Connection 24 The Local People 26 The Open Economy 28 Summary 29 II. Politics and Economic Freedom 31 The Beginnings of Economic Freedom 32 Colonial Regulation 34 Constitutional and Administrative Framework 36 Bureaucratic Administration 39 The Secretariat 39 The Finance Branch 40 The Financial Secretary 42 Economic and Budgetary Policy 43 v Economic Policy 44 Capital Movements 44 Subsidies 45 Government Economic Services 46 Budgetary Policy 51 Government Reserves 54 Taxation 55 Monetary System 5 6 Role of Public Policy 61 Summary 64 III. Doing Business in Hong Kong 67 Location 68 General Business Requirements 68 Taxation 70 Employment and Labor Unions 74 Manufacturing 77 Banking and Finance 80 Some Personal Observations 82 IV. Is Hong Kong Unique? Its Future and Some General Observations about Economic Freedom 87 The Future of Hong Kong 88 Some Preliminary Observations on Free-Trade Economies 101 Historical Instances of Economic Freedom 102 Delos 103 Fairs and Fair Towns: Antwerp 108 Livorno 114 The Early British Mediterranean Empire: Gibraltar, Malta, and the Ionian Islands 116 A Preliminary Thesis of Economic Freedom 121 Notes 123 Vt Preface and Acknowledgments Shortly after the August 1976 meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, held in St.
    [Show full text]
  • The Guangzhou-Hongkong Strike, 1925-1926
    The Guangzhou-Hongkong Strike, 1925-1926 Hongkong Workers in an Anti-Imperialist Movement Robert JamesHorrocks Submitted in accordancewith the requirementsfor the degreeof PhD The University of Leeds Departmentof East Asian Studies October 1994 The candidateconfirms that the work submitted is his own and that appropriate credit has been given where referencehas been made to the work of others. 11 Abstract In this thesis, I study the Guangzhou-Hongkong strike of 1925-1926. My analysis differs from past studies' suggestions that the strike was a libertarian eruption of mass protest against British imperialism and the Hongkong Government, which, according to these studies, exploited and oppressed Chinese in Guangdong and Hongkong. I argue that a political party, the CCP, led, organised, and nurtured the strike. It centralised political power in its hands and tried to impose its revolutionary visions on those under its control. First, I describe how foreign trade enriched many people outside the state. I go on to describe how Chinese-run institutions governed Hongkong's increasingly settled non-elite Chinese population. I reject ideas that Hongkong's mixed-class unions exploited workers and suggest that revolutionaries failed to transform Hongkong society either before or during the strike. My thesis shows that the strike bureaucracy was an authoritarian power structure; the strike's unprecedented political demands reflected the CCP's revolutionary political platform, which was sometimes incompatible with the interests of Hongkong's unions. I suggestthat the revolutionary elite's goals were not identical to those of the unions it claimed to represent: Hongkong unions preserved their autonomy in the face of revolutionaries' attempts to control Hongkong workers.
    [Show full text]
  • Laying of the Report the Report of the Director of Audit on the Accounts Of
    P.A.C. Report No. 51 – Part 4 Report of the Public Accounts Committee on the Reports of the Director of Audit on the Accounts of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the year ended 31 March 2007 and the Results of Value for Money Audits (Report No. 49) [P.A.C. Report No. 49] Laying of the Report The Report of the Director of Audit on the Accounts of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the year ended 31 March 2007 and his Report No. 49 on the results of value for money audits were laid in the Legislative Council on 28 November 2007. The Committee's Report (Report No. 49) was subsequently tabled on 20 February 2008, thereby meeting the requirement of Rule 72 of the Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council that the Report be tabled within three months of the Director of Audit's Report being laid. 2. The Government Minute The Government Minute in response to the Committee's Report No. 49 was laid in the Legislative Council on 21 May 2008. A progress report on matters outstanding in the Government Minute was issued on 29 October 2008. The latest position and the Committee's further comments on these matters are set out in paragraphs 3 to 46 below. Management of the government fleet (Paragraphs 3 to 4 of Part 3 of P.A.C. Report No. 49) 3. The Committee was informed that: Management of in-house maintenance work and staff - based on the assessment made by the upgraded Government Fleet Information System ("GFIS"), which was capable of comparing the cost-effectiveness of services provided by individual in-house maintenance workshops against those provided by private contractors, the Marine Department ("MD") planned to outsource a forward-base workshop in early 2009 to tie in with the staff natural wastage profile; Administration of maintenance contracts - the MD had started a pilot scheme to test the merits of using a term contract for maintenance services for government vessels.
    [Show full text]
  • For Information Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs
    CB(1) 516/05-06(01) For Information Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs Legislative Council Panel on Planning, Lands and Works Information Note on Overall Sewage Infrastructure in Hong Kong Purpose This note informs members on the policy behind and progress of sewage infrastructure planning and implementation in Hong Kong. Policy Goals for the Provision of Sewage Infrastructure 2. The policy goals for the provision of sewage infrastructure are the protection of public health and the attainment of the declared Water Quality Objectives for the receiving water environment. The latter are set so as to ensure our waters are of a sufficient quality to sustain certain uses which are valued by the community. These include, variously, abstraction for potable supply, swimming, secondary contact recreation such as yachting, and the ability to sustain healthy marine and freshwater ecosystems. The Sewerage Planning Process 3. The sewerage planning process entails the systematic review of the sewerage needs in each sewerage catchment with the aim of drawing up a series of Sewerage Master Plans (SMPs) devised so as to ensure the above policy goals will be met. A total of 16 SMPs covering the whole of Hong Kong were completed between 1989 and 1996 (Annex 1). The SMPs started with those covering areas where waters were close to or exceeded their assimilative limits, were highly valued, or where excessive pollution had resulted in environmental black spots. For example, Hong Kong Island South SMP covering sensitive beach areas and Tolo Harbour SMP covering nutrient loaded Tolo Harbour were among the earliest conducted SMPs. Each study made recommendations for the appropriate network of sewers, pumping stations and treatment facilities for the proper collection, treatment and disposal of sewage generated in the catchment, with the aim of catering for the present and future development needs.
    [Show full text]
  • List of Electors with Authorised Representatives Appointed for the Labour Advisory Board Election of Employee Representatives 2020 (Total No
    List of Electors with Authorised Representatives Appointed for the Labour Advisory Board Election of Employee Representatives 2020 (Total no. of electors: 869) Trade Union Union Name (English) Postal Address (English) Registration No. 7 Hong Kong & Kowloon Carpenters General Union 2/F, Wah Hing Commercial Centre,383 Shanghai Street, Yaumatei, Kln. 8 Hong Kong & Kowloon European-Style Tailors Union 6/F, Sunbeam Commerical Building,469-471 Nathan Road, Yaumatei, Kowloon. 15 Hong Kong and Kowloon Western-styled Lady Dress Makers Guild 6/F, Sunbeam Commerical Building,469-471 Nathan Road, Yaumatei, Kowloon. 17 HK Electric Investments Limited Employees Union 6/F., Kingsfield Centre, 18 Shell Street,North Point, Hong Kong. Hong Kong & Kowloon Spinning, Weaving & Dyeing Trade 18 1/F., Kam Fung Court, 18 Tai UK Street,Tsuen Wan, N.T. Workers General Union 21 Hong Kong Rubber and Plastic Industry Employees Union 1st Floor, 20-24 Choi Hung Road,San Po Kong, Kowloon DAIRY PRODUCTS, BEVERAGE AND FOOD INDUSTRIES 22 368-374 Lockhart Road, 1/F.,Wan Chai, Hong Kong. EMPLOYEES UNION Hong Kong and Kowloon Bamboo Scaffolding Workers Union 28 2/F, Wah Hing Com. Centre,383 Shanghai St., Yaumatei, Kln. (Tung-King) Hong Kong & Kowloon Dockyards and Wharves Carpenters 29 2/F, Wah Hing Commercial Centre,383 Shanghai Street, Yaumatei, Kln. General Union 31 Hong Kong & Kowloon Painters, Sofa & Furniture Workers Union 1/F, 368 Lockhart Road,Pakling Building,Wanchai, Hong Kong. 32 Hong Kong Postal Workers Union 2/F., Cheng Hong Building,47-57 Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon. 33 Hong Kong and Kowloon Tobacco Trade Workers General Union 1/F, Pak Ling Building,368-374 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong HONG KONG MEDICAL & HEALTH CHINESE STAFF 40 12/F, United Chinese Bank Building,18 Tai Po Road,Sham Shui Po, Kowloon.
    [Show full text]
  • Long-Term Evolution of the Chinese Port System (221BC-2010AD) Chengjin Wang, César Ducruet
    Regional resilience and spatial cycles: Long-term evolution of the Chinese port system (221BC-2010AD) Chengjin Wang, César Ducruet To cite this version: Chengjin Wang, César Ducruet. Regional resilience and spatial cycles: Long-term evolution of the Chinese port system (221BC-2010AD). Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Wiley, 2013, 104 (5), pp.521-538. 10.1111/tesg.12033. halshs-00831906 HAL Id: halshs-00831906 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00831906 Submitted on 28 Sep 2014 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Regional resilience and spatial cycles: long-term evolution of the Chinese port system (221 BC - 2010 AD) Chengjin WANG Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Beijing 100101, China [email protected] César DUCRUET1 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) UMR 8504 Géographie-cités F-75006 Paris, France [email protected] Pre-final version of the paper published in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 104, No. 5, pp. 521-538. Abstract Spatial models of port system evolution often depict linearly the emergence of hierarchy through successive concentration phases of originally scattered ports.
    [Show full text]
  • Guide to Shipping Register and Shipping Tax Regime in Hong Kong Contents
    Guide to Shipping Register and Shipping Tax Regime in Hong Kong Contents The Hong Kong Shipping Register 1 Taxation of Shipping Profits in Hong Kong 8 Schedule 12 The Hong Kong Shipping Register Until 3 December 1990, the United Kingdom Merchant Shipping Acts (the “Acts”) (except for the Merchant Shipping Act 1988) applied to registration of ships and to mortgages of ships in Hong Kong. A ship registered at the Port of Hong Kong was, therefore, a British ship. Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty on 1 July 1997 and became a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. Section VIII of Annex I to the Sino- British Joint Declaration which relates to the transfer of sovereignty states that: “The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall maintain Hong Kong’s previous systems of shipping management and shipping regulation, including the system for regulating conditions of seamen. The specific functions and responsibilities of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in the field of shipping shall be defined by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on its own. Private shipping businesses and shipping-related businesses and private container terminals in Hong Kong may continue to operate freely. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be authorised by the Central People’s Government to continue to maintain a shipping register and issue related certificates under its own legislation in the name of ‘Hong Kong, China’.” The Hong Kong Government appointed a Steering Committee in 1987 to advise the Government on the establishment of an independent shipping registry. The result was enacted as the Merchant Shipping (Registration) Ordinance (Cap 415) (the “Ordinance”), which came into effect on 3 December 1990.
    [Show full text]
  • Costs and Benefits of Shore Power at the Port of Shenzhen
    WHITE PAPER DECEMBER 2015 COSTS AND BENEFITS OF SHORE POWER AT THE PORT OF SHENZHEN Haifeng Wang, Ph.D., Xiaoli Mao, and Dan Rutherford, Ph.D. www.theicct.org [email protected] BEIJING | BERLIN | BRUSSELS | SAN FRANCISCO | WASHINGTON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report was commissioned by the China Environment Forum (CEF) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as part of its Choke Point: Port Cities initiative, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The authors thank Irene Kwan and Simon Ng for their technical support and Tim Leong for his critical review of the work. The authors also especially thank Shenzhen Human Settlements and Environmental Committee and the Port of Oakland for their review and recommendations for the report. ABOUT THE CHINA ENVIRONMENT FORUM (CEF) Since 1997, the China Environment Forum (CEF) has been the “go-to” resource for convening policy, business, research, and NGO practitioners on the most pressing energy, water, and pollution problems facing China. Through meetings, publications, and exchanges, they play a unique nonpartisan role in creating multistakeholder dialogues around China’s energy and environmental challenges, identifying new areas of collaboration. CEF’s work is frequently featured in mainstream media, including: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, BBC News, The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Foreign Policy. For additional information: International Council on Clean Transportation 1225 I Street NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 USA [email protected]
    [Show full text]
  • A Competitive Analysis of Port of Hong Kong: from External to Internal Zihua Liu1, Dong Yang2* and Y
    Liu et al. Journal of Shipping and Trade (2020) 5:7 Journal of Shipping https://doi.org/10.1186/s41072-020-00062-2 and Trade ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open Access A competitive analysis of port of Hong Kong: from external to internal Zihua Liu1, Dong Yang2* and Y. N. Eppie Ng2 * Correspondence: dong.yang@ polyu.edu.hk Abstract 2Shipping Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, This paper aims to analyse the competitive equilibrium of Hong Kong international Hong Kong SAR, China port after the cooperation among terminal operators. To achieve our research Full list of author information is objective, a comprehensive analysis framework is proposed. We assume that the port available at the end of the article services provided by Shenzhen and Hong Kong have heterogeneity, thus apply Cournot price competition model to understand the external competition. We find that the heterogeneity level can affect the demand of Hong Kong international port. For different heterogeneity levels, different competitive equilibriums among terminal operators of Hong Kong are discussed. We further apply Edgeworth model and Stackelberg Leadership Model to describe the internal competition of Hong Kong international port. Based on analysis, some recommendations are provided to the terminal operators of Hong Kong. Keywords: Terminal/port competition, Service heterogeneity, Cournot price competition, Edgeworth model, Stackelberg leadership model Introduction With the current dynamic business environment, port and container terminal opera- tors in the same region are facing keen competition from each other (Kaselimi et al. 2011). In recent years, liner shipping companies restructure and reform their shipping alliances, which significantly improves their bargaining power towards port and con- tainer terminal operators and port competition arises.
    [Show full text]
  • Regional Shipping and Port Development Strategies
    CONTENTS Page SUMMARY .................................................................................................................V KEY FINDINGS ......................................................................................................VII 1. INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................1 1.1 OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE ......................................................................................1 1.2 STUDY APPROACH.............................................................................................1 1.3 MODELLING APPROACH ....................................................................................2 1.4 REPORT STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS ................................................................3 2. CHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND SHIPPING .......................4 2.1 CHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE ................................................................4 2.2 COMPETITION AND REGULATION OF LINER SHIPPING........................................5 2.3 SHIPPING LINE RESPONSE..................................................................................9 2.4 IMPLICATIONS FOR PORTS ...............................................................................11 3. CONTAINER TRADE GROWTH....................................................................13 3.1 BACKGROUND .................................................................................................13 3.2 LOOKING FORWARD ........................................................................................14
    [Show full text]
  • GEO REPORT No. 106
    SUSPENDED SEDIMENT IN HONG KONG WATERS GEO REPORT No. 106 S. Parry GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING OFFICE CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION SUSPENDED SEDIMENT IN HONG KONG WATERS GEO REPORT No. 106 S. Parry This report was originally produced in November 1999 as GEO Natural Resources Report No. NRR 1/99 - 2 - © The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region First published, November 2000 Prepared by: Geotechnical Engineering Office, Civil Engineering Department, Civil Engineering Building, 101 Princess Margaret Road, Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. This publication is available from: Government Publications Centre, Ground Floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong. Overseas orders should be placed with: Publications Sales Section, Information Services Department, Room 402, 4th Floor, Murray Building, Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong. Price in Hong Kong: HK$152 Price overseas: US$23 (including surface postage) An additional bank charge of HK$50 or US$6.50 is required per cheque made in currencies other than Hong Kong dollars. Cheques, bank drafts or money orders must be made payable to The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. - 4 - FOREWORD This report was produced as part of a literature review, which included existing field measurements, of suspended sediment data in and around Hong Kong waters. The purpose of the report was to provide an overview of the causes and levels of suspended sediments in Hong Kong waters. The report was written by S. Parry. Valuable comments were provided by P.G.D. Whiteside, Q.S.H. Kwan, N.C. Evans, W.N.
    [Show full text]
  • 拍卖物品清单编号auction List M-2/2020
    拍卖物品清单编号 AUCTION LIST M-2/2020 - 1 - Lot No. Item No. Description Quantity 批号 项目 物品详情 数量 Special Terms and Conditions applicable to Lot Nos: M-102, M-103, M-121, M-123, M-129, M-152, M- 153, M-163, M-164, M-165, M-171 & M-175. The following special terms and conditions are applicable when the lot contains item(s) which is (are) e-waste. “e-waste” having the meaning given to such term in Section 2 of the Waste Disposal Ordinance, Chapter 354 of the Laws of Hong Kong (“WDO”). Special Terms: (1) In order to participate in the auction of the said lot of item(s), the bidder must: (a) have a valid licence to use, or permit to be used, any land or premises for the disposal of waste from the Director of Environmental Protection for the type of e-waste which is the subject of the said lot under the WDO; or (b) have a valid permit for the export of e-waste from Hong Kong from the Director of Environmental Protection for the type of e-waste which is the subject of the said lot; or (c) provide the Government with an undertaking as mentioned in Special Term (2)(b) below. (2) Before participating in the auction of the said lot of item(s), the bidder must: (a) provide to the Government a copy of such licence and/or export permit which shall be valid at the auction day, or (b) provide the Government with an undertaking signed by the bidder undertaking that if he successfully bids for the said lot: (i) his operations involved in the storage, treatment, reprocessing and/or recycling of such e-waste are such that he shall not be required to obtain a licence to use, or permit to be used, any land or premises for the disposal of waste from the Director of Environmental Protection for the type of e-waste which is the subject of the said lot under the WDO; and (ii) if he exports the e-waste which is the subject of the said lot from Hong Kong, he shall ensure that he has a valid permit for the export of e-waste from Hong Kong from the Director of Environmental Protection for the type of e-waste which is the subject of the said lot.
    [Show full text]