TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1985
ON THE QUESTION OF A HONG KONG SHIPPING REGISTER TO REPLACE THE BRITISH REGISTER, MR HIGGINSON SAID THIS SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED BY ABOUT 1990 SO THAT A RESPECTED, SEPARATE AND AUTONOMOUS REGISTER+ WAS IN PLACE WELL BEFORE 1997.
REFERRING TO CIVIL AVIATION PLANS, MR HIGGINSON SAID
CURRENT EXPANSION WORK AT KAI TAK, KNOWN AS STAGE V, WAS AIMED AT INCREASING THE HOURLY CAPACITY OF THE TERMINAL BUILDING TO A LEVEL WHICH BROADLY MATCHED THE RUNWAY CAPACITY OF 30 AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS AN HOUR.
STAGE V, DUE TO BECOME OPERATIONAL BY MID-1988, WOULD CATER FOR 5 300 PASSENGERS PER HOUR ONE WAY, WHICH WAS EQUIVALENT TO AN ANNUAL TOTAL OF ABOUT 18 MILLION PASSENGERS, THE LEVEL OF PASSENGERS FOR 1984 WAS ALMOST 10 MILLION, MR HIGGINSON ADDED.
WHILE PASSENGER TRAFFIC LAST YEAR PUT HONG KONG SEVENTH IN WORLD RANKING, THE GROWTH IN AIR FREIGHT WAS EVEN MORE EXCITING, HE SAID.
+ IN 1984-85, 27 PER CENT OF HONG KONG'S TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND 21 PER CENT OF TOTAL IMPORTS BY VALUE WERE SHIPPED BY AIR, HE SAID.
THIS RANKED HONG KONG ELEVENTH IN THE WORLD IN TERMS OF TOTAL CARGO THROUGHOUT AIRPORTS.
URBCO EXPANDS POLICY OF BILINGUALISM
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THE URBAN COUNCIL TODAY TOOK ANOTHER STEP IN ITS POLICY OF BILINGUALISM WHEN ITS STANDING COMMITTEE AGREED THAT COMMITTEE MINUTES SHOULD BE TRANSLATED INTO CHINESE.
SUCH TRANSLATION WILL BEGIN WITH THE MINUTES OF THE FORTNIGHTLY MEETINGS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ITSELF, SAID A COUNCIL SPOKESMAN.
THEN, BY STAGES AS EXPERT STAFF BECOME AVAILABLE, THE MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL'S 13 SELECT COMMITTEES WILL ALSO BE TRANSLATED.
+THIS WILL FURTHER EXPAND THE COUNCIL'S LONG-STANDING POLICY OF BILINGUALISM,+ SAID THE SPOKESMAN.
+SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AT THE COUNCIL'S OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS, AND AT ALL MEETINGS OF ITS SELECT COMMITTEES.
AS WITH ALL ACTIVITIES OF THE COUNCIL, WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THE MOST EFFICIENT AND LEAST EXPENSIVE WAYS OF GRADUALLY INTRODUCING THE TRANSLATION OF THE COUNCIL'S IMPORTANT WORK INTO CHINESE.+
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