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Marine Department do not have control on transportation by container trucks on land.
Following the accident, Fire Services Department, Transport Department and Marine Department held discussions to examine possible improvement measure to handle similar problems in future. Transport Department would formulate and add advisory guidelines in the Code of Practice for the safe transport of vehicles. It will advise that the fuel tanks of all vehicles and motor cycles must be drained before they are packed and carried by vehicles. They would also issue, in two months' time, a summary pamphlet on Safe Loading of Vehicles with an advisory paragraph on safe transport of vehicles. Fire Services Department will also arrange meetings with people involved in the trade to ensure that they are well aware of the fire safety precautions that should be taken.
Bank loans
Following is a question by the Hon Huang Chen-ya, and a written reply by the Secretary for Financial Services, Mr Rafael Hui, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Will the Government inform this Council of the average and largest percentages, in terms of number and amount, of the following categories of loans out of all loans granted by the banks in the territory, as well as the standard deviation of percentages, in each quarter of the past year:
(a)
personal property mortgage loans;
(b)
company residential property mortgage loans;
(c)
commercial property mortgage loans;
(d)
borrowings by property developers; and
(e)
other property related loans?