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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1982
APART FROM COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES, THE TRANSPORT SECTOR INCURRED $16 961 MILLION ON OPERATING EXPENSES. THE LATTER INCLUDED CONSUMPTION OF FUELS, WATER, ELECTRICITY AND OTHER MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES AGENCY FEES, COMMISSIONS AND PAYMENTS TO OTHER TRANSPORT ESTABLISHMENTS SUCH AS FREIGHT CHARGES, CHARTER HIRE FOR TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT, PAYMENTS FOR MISCELLANEOUS SHIPPING SERVICES AND COST OF AIRLINE TICKETS SOLD RENTS AND RATES FOR LAND AND BUILDINGS INTEREST ON OPERATING LOANSI PAYMENTS TO OUTWORKERS AND OTHER EXPENDITURES. MOST TRANSPORT GROUPS SPENT SEVERAL TIMES MORE ON OPERATING EXPENSES THAN ON COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES. IN PARTICULAR, OPERATING EXPENSES OF +OPERATORS OF SEA-GOING VESSELS+ ($3 106 MILLION) WERE 55 TIMES MORE THAN THE IR COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES ($56 MILLION). FOR TRAVEL AGENTS AND AIRLINE TICKET AGENTS+ AND +AIR FREIGHT FORWARDING SERVICES+ OPERATING EXPENSES WERE ALSO VERY MUCH HIGHER THAN COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES AS THE FORMER INCLUDED COST OF AIRLINE TICKETS SOLD, COST OF TOURS, AND FREIGHT CHARGES.
+TRAVEL AGENTS AND AIRLINE TICKET AGENTS+ ACCOUNTED FOR THE LARGEST SHARE OF BUSINESS RECEIPTS IN THE TRANSPORT SECTOR. AT $3 948 MILLION, IT AMOUNTED TO 18 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL. BUSINESS RECEIPTS OF OPERATORS OF SEA-GOING VESSELS+ AND AIR TRANSPORT+, AT $3 207 MILLION AND $3 036 MILLION RESPECTIVELY, EACH MADE UP 14 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL, WHILE AIR FREIGHT FORWARDING SERVICES+ ACCOUNTED FOR $2 456 MILLION OR 11 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL. IN THE CASE OF +TRAVEL AGENTS AND AIRLINE TICKET AGENTS+, BUSINESS RECEIPTS INCLUDED THE SALES OF AIRLINE TICKETS WHICH WERE THE GROSS RECEIPTS FROM CUSTOMERS FOR AIRLINE TICKETS SOLD INSTEAD OF JUST THE COMMISSIONS EARNED.
AVERAGE BUSINESS RECEIPTS PER ESTABLISHMENT VARIED WIDELY AMONG DIFFERENT TRANSPORT GROUPS. THE LOWEST WERE FOUND IN +SCHOOL HIRED CAR SERVICE+ AND NEW TERRITORIES TAXIS+, AND THE HIGHEST IN +OPERATORS OF SEA-GOING VESSELS+, +TRAMWAYS, THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY AND PUBLIC BUSES AND AIR TRANSPORT+. THE MOST IMPORTANT TRANSPORT GROUPS IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS, NAMELY +LAND FREIGHT TRANSPORT BY TRUCK+ +URBAN TAXIS+ AND +PUBLIC LIGHT BUSES+ HAD BUSINESS RECEIPTS PER ESTABLISHMENT OF $127 000, $138 000 AND $82 000 RESPECTIVELY.
OF THE $5 377 MILLION OF GROSS ADDITIONS TO FIXED ASSETS OF THE TRANSPORT SECTOR DURING 1980, OVER THREE QUARTERS WERE ACQUIRED BY +TRAMWAYS, THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY AND PUBLIC BUSES+, +SH IPOWNERS OF SEA-GOING VESSELS AND CONTAINER TERMINALS AND +AIR TRANSPORT+,
THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT IS IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING A REPORT ON THE 1980 SURVEY, WHICH WILL CONTAIN A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS AS WELL AS A DESCRIPTION OF THE SURVEY METHODOLOGY.
ENQUIRIES ABOUT THE 1980 SURVEY MAY BE DIRECTED TO THE TRANSPORT STATISTICS SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (TEL. NO. 3-661045).
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