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Concerning bus services, the bus journey time was slightly longer. While this may be the result of the modification of the traffic management at Sham Tseng, however, there were a number of vehicle breakdown incidents this morning which also affected traffic flow.
Hence, it is too early to assess the impact of the scheme modification to bus operation at this stage.
More detailed surveys will be carried out in the coming two weeks when motorists are fully aware of the revised traffic arrangements.
The modification shall be experimented for no more than six weeks. The situation will be closely monitored by the Transport Department and an assessment of the modification shall be made after obtaining traffic data in the first three weeks.
End/Monday, June 12, 1995
Hong Kong's external trade statistics for April
The Census and Statistics Department today (Monday) released detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for April.
The value of re-exports continued to increase notably, by 13% over a year earlier to $84.6 billion in April.
Comparing April 1995 with April 1994, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+24%), France (+21%), China (+17%), South Korea (+16%). Taiwan (+13%), Japan (+13%), the Netherlands (+11%), the United States (+8.5%), the United Kingdom (+5.3%) and Germany (+1.9%).
Changes in the value of Hong Kong's re-exports to ten main destinations are shown in Table 1.
The value of re-exports in the first four months of 1995 was $324.6 billion, 19% higher than that in the same period in 1994.