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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1988

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SHIPPING POLICY SHOULD MEET CHANGES: SES

* * * * *

GOVERNMENT'S SHIPPING POLICY MUST EVOLVE IN THE LIGHT

CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES AND ADVICE FROM

SECRETARY (WEDNESDAY).

FOR ECONOMIC

SERVICES,

OF BOTH

THE THE SHIPPING COMMUNITY,

CHAN, SAID TODAY

ANSON MRS

MEETING LUNCH A

OF THE BALTIC AND HOW SKIPPING

SHB WAS SPEAKING AT INTERNATIONAL MARITIME COUNCIL ON HONG KONG'S SHIPPING POLICY AND

INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL

MEMBERS

THE OF

IT AFFECTED

COMMUNITIES.

MRS CHAN

DEVELOPMENT

STUDY

CURRENT

PORT

AND AIRPORT

INFORMATION

AND

AND EXTENT OF

COULD CAPACITY

STAY

FUTURE

AHEAD

PORT

OF

THAT THE OUT POINTED

WOULD PROVIDE ESSENTIAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE LOCATION, NATURE FACILITIES SO THAT HONG KONG'S TRADE DEMANDS.

PER

PORT

YEARS OF "GIVEN HONG KONG'S GDP GROWTH KATES FOR THE LAST TWO

MORE MODERATE 6

CENT AND EVEN ASSUMING 11.2 PER CENT AND 13.

THIS IS A 'CHANGING FUTURE, GROWTH RATES

FORESEEABLE IN THE

WOULD CIRCUMSTANCE' OF VERY CONSIDERABLE PROPORTIONS, AND ONE THAT WE IGNORE ONLY AT OUR PERIL," SHE SAID.

REVIEW

ITS

THE GOVERNMENT ΤΟ THE OTHER FACTOR WHICH CAUSED POLICIES WAS ADVICE FROM THE SHIPPING COMMUNITY, MRS CHAN SAID, NOTING THAT A NETWORK OF PORT ADVISORY COMMITTEES WAS PROVIDING SUCH ADVICE.

INCLUDING

OF

SHIPOWNERS

THESE COMMITTEES COMPRISED REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL ASPECTS

HONG KONG THE THE SHIPPING COMMUNITY, ASSOCIATION, THE HONG KONG LINER SITPPING ASSOCIATION, THE GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE HONG KONG SHIPPERS COUNCIL.

CONTAINER

THE OPERATORS, HONG KONG CONTAINER LEASING COMPANIES

TERMINAL THREE THE CONTAINER TRACTORS ASSOCIATION, THE REPAIRER ASSOCIATION AND THE CONTAINER REPRESENTED, MRS CHAN SAID.

HONG KONG

HONG KONG AND DFPCT WERE ALSO

DEVELOPED SHE SAID

GOVERNMENT THE THAT SHIPPING STRATEGY AIMED AT CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH TRADE COULD BEST PROSPER.

HAD

A

FIVE-POINT

HONG

KONG

AMONG THESE

COMPONENTS

OF CO-ORDINATION THE PROVISION OF MOVEMENTS WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL WATERS, FACILITIES FOR THE LOADING AND UNLOADING OF SEABORNE FREIGHT PROVISION OF SHIPPING SUPPORT SERVICES.

WERE THE

SHIPPIN ADEQUATE AND THE

THE

THE GOVERNMENT WOULD ALSO PROVIDE AN EFFICIENT SERVICE FOR

NECESSARY TC FACILITATE REGISTRY OF SHIPS IN HONG KONG, MODIFIED AS THE TRANSITION IN 1997 WITH A MINIMUM OF CHANGE.

MEANWHILE,

GOVERNMENT

WOULD

STIPULATF

AND

ENFORC EQUIPMENT, MANNING FOR LOCAL OPERATIONS

THE INTERNATIONALLY AGREED STANDARDS OF CONSTRUCTION, AND OPERATION OF VESSELS LICENSED IN HONG KONG OR REGISTERED IN HONG KONG FOR WORLD-WIDE WERATIONS, SIR ADDED.

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