Fees at public cargo working areas to be revised
The Government will revise fees for the services provided at the public cargo handling areas (PCWAs) from November 4, a Government spokesman said today (Wednesday).
The new fees, an increase of 20 per cent across the board, are contained in the Port Control (Cargo Working Areas) (Amendment) Regulation 1995 to be gazetted this Friday (July 14). The fees are set at a level to remove gradually government subsidy for the commercial activities and to seek to achieve a target return.
If translated into money terms, the increase will represent an average increase of $21 or 1.3 per cent in operating cost per day in the case of a lorry.
In the case of a lighter, the average daily increase will be about $60 or 1.6 per cent of the overall cost.
"Cargo handling operations at the PCWAS are commercial in nature and there is no reasons the operators should receive public subsidy," the spokesman said.
End/Wednesday, July 12, 1995
Destruction of 20,000 pirated music CDs
The acting Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Mr Lawrence Li, will this (Wednesday) afternoon preside at the destruction of 20,000 pirated music compact discs (CDs) forfeited by orders of the court.
The CDs to be destroyed are samples of pirated and infringing goods seized by Customs last year under the Copyright Ordinance.
Up to June this year, officers of the Customs Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau (IPIB) conducted 692 raids against copyright piracy.
During these raids, 102,954 pirated music CDs, 101,087 CD-Roms and 14,154 video CDs were seized with a total retail value of about $11.55 million.