Electricity and gas
5.13
1982.
Electricity consumption in the third quarter of
1983, at 4 351 million kilowatt hours, was 13% higher than
While industrial
the amount of electricity
and by commercial users
respectively. Electricity
in the third quarter of
consumption increased by 12%,
consumed by domestic users
increased by 16% and 13%
exports to China
to China amounted to 104 million kilowatt hours,
equivalent to 2% of
2% of the total electricity consumption in Hong Kong. Town gas consumption was 16% higher in the third quarter of 1983 than in the third quarter of 1982.
Domestic consumption and commercial consumption rose by
13% and 21% respectively.
Activity in selected tertiary services sectors
5.14
Continuing the recent trend, the numbers of passenger journeys on the Mass Transit Railway and on the
two bus companies increased steadily by 2.7% and 7.3%
respectively in the third quarter compared with the same
period a year earlier, while those on the ferries
decreased by 5.4%. Due no doubt to the opening of the
double-tracked electric service, the number of
of passenger journeys on the Kowloon Canton Railway increased by 133%
over this period. There were no other significant
developments in the public transport sector. For private
transport, the number of newly registered private cars
showed a further drop, from 3 069 in the third quarter of
1982 to 1 734 in the third quarter of 1983. The total number of private cars registered at the end of September
1983, at 204 717, was 5% less than at the end of September
1982.
5.15
As regards cargo movements, the weight of
outward cargo carried by sea was 36% higher, and by air
was 35% higher, in the third quarter of 1983 than in the
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