(a)
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25% of all ocear-going ships arriving in Fong Kong have, as its last or its next port of call, a port in China;
(b)
19%
of
all ocean-going ships arriving in Forg Kong are registered in China. In 1986, 2,200 Chinese registered ships visited Rorg Korg ter times the number which visited in 1977;
(c)
16 million tons of cargo or 25% of the total throughput of
Hong Kong has come from or is going to China: as imports,
exports or as transhipment trade;
(d)
about half of the China trade (8 million tons) coming through Hong Kong is carried in the river by some 80,000 river trade
vessels. Most through the Ma Wan Channel;
(e)
of the 11 million passenger journeys between Hong Kong and ports in the Pearl River, two millior are to and from ports ir China; and
(f)
about half the Cosco fleet visits For Kong annually for maintenance at the Yu Lian Shipyard.
From these facts, it is clear that the port of Hong Kong plays an important function in the transportation of goods to and from China and the Pearl River and, in turn, that the continued growth of the Chinese and in particular the Guangdong economy is beneficial to the development of the port of Hong Kong.