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The Lantau Fixed Crossing is an essential element within the Government's Airport Core Programme and timely completion of the Kap Shui Mun Bridge and Ma Wan Viaduct is vital to the opening of the new airport.
The design-and-build contract for the Kap Shui Mun Bridge and Ma Wan Viaduct commenced in December 1992 and is scheduled for completion in May 1997.
End/Thursday, January 12, 1995
External trade figures classified by country
and commodity for November 1994
The value of re-exports in November 1994 continued to show a marked increase, by 20% over a year earlier, to $86.8 billion, according to Census and Statistics Department's statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity.
Comparing November 1994 with November 1993, increases were recorded in the value of re-exports to Singapore (+38%), Australia (+30%), Japan (+28%), China (+24%), Canada (+20%), Taiwan (+19%), the United Kingdom (+16%), the United States (+15%) and the Republic of Korea (+4.6%).
2.8%.
However, the value of re-exports to Germany decreased slightly by
The changes in the value of Hong Kong's re-exports to the 10 main destinations are shown in Table'l.
The value of re-exports in the first 11 months of 1994 was $865.9 billion, 16% higher than that in the same period in 1993.
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