FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1994
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HK'S CONTAINER THROUGHPUT INCREASES SUSTAINED
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HONG KONG HANDLED MORE THAN 3.1 MILLION TWENTY-FOOT EQUIVALENT MONTHS THIS YEAR, UNITS (TEUS) OF CONTAINERS DURING THE FIRST FOUR
A 20.1 PER CENT INCREASE REPRESENTING
SAME OVER THE
PERIOD LAST YEAR, THE DIRECTOR OF MARINE, MR IAN DALE, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).
DALE
ANNOUNCING THE LATEST CONTAINER THROUGHPUT STATISTICS, MR SAID THE TERRITORY'S MONTHLY CONTAINER THROUGHPUT INCREASES SHOWED SUSTAINED DEMAND, AND HONG KONG'S ABILITY TO MEET WITH IT.
"THE KWAI CHUNG CONTAINER TERMINALS HANDLED 2,085,769 TEUS
WHEN RECORDED A STEADY 28 PER CENT GROWTH
COMPARED WITH CONTAINERS HANDLED IN THE CORRESPONDING TIME IN 1993, MR DALE NOTED.
AND
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THE STREAM SECTOR SHOWED A SLIGHT DECREASE OF 1.8 PER CENT HANDLED 833,487 TEUS IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS.
AND
CENT
MR DALE SAID: "RIVER TRADE ACHIEVED A HUGE 54 PER ALTHOUGH THIS WAS FROM A SMALL BASE LINE OF 171,530 TEUS FOR THE PERIOD LAST YEAR.
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MR DALE SAID THERE WAS EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE GROWTH IN HONG KONG'S CONTAINER THROUGHPUT WOULD CONTINUE.
SURGE,
SAME
STEADY
"BUT WITHOUT NEW HANDLING FACILITIES COMING ON LINE ON EFFECT OF SCHEDULE THE SITUATION COULD WELL CHANGE BY LATE 1995. THE THIS ON THE PORT MUST NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED," HE SAID.
THE FOLLOWING IS STATISTICS IN TEUS:
THE TABLE FOR THE
COMPARATIVE
CONTAINER
FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1993
FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF
1994
INCREASE PERCENTAGE
KWAI CHUNG CONTAINER TERMINALS
1,630,115
2,085,769
28.0 PER CENT
STREAM AND ELSEWHERE
RIVER TRADE
TOTAL
848,438
171,530
2,649,527
833,487
-1.8 PER CENT
264,097
54.0 PER CENT
3,183,148
20.1 PER CENT
556 NOTE: TO AVOID DOUBLE COUNTING, FIGURES ARE ADJUSTED DOWNWARDS BY
205 TEUS IN TEUS IN 1993 AND
1994 RESPECTIVELY HANDLED BY TERMINAL VESSELS CONTRACTED TO WORK IN THE STREAM.
NOTE TO EDITORS:
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