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HE SAID THE USE OF PARKING BAYS ON THE EAST APRON EXTENSION FOR TURNING ROUND AIRCRAFT DURING THE DAY AND BETWEEN 11 PM AND 6 AM WOULD BE MINIMISED. IT IS INTENDED THAT THESE BAYS WOULD MAINLY BR USED FOR INACTIVE AIRCRAFT PARKING.

LED BY THE BOARD CHAIRMAN, MR WONG HANG-FAI, THE GROUP OF 30 DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS TOURED THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTRE AND TOWER AS WELL AS THE AIR PASSENGER TERMINAL BUILDING TO UNDERSTAND THE CAPACITY OF THE AIRPORT IN HANDLING BOTH PASSENGER AND AIR CARGO TRAFFIC.

AT THE SAME TIME, THEY WERE BRIEFED ON THE WORK OF THE SAFETY REGULATIONS DIVISION WHICH DEALT WITH FLIGHT OPERATION STANDARDS AND AIRWORTHINESS OF AIRCRAFT AND THE TECHNICAL AND PLANNING DIVISION WHICH HANDLED EQUIPMENT INSTALLATION AND 'THE CALIBRATION OF INSTRUMENT GUIDING SYSTEMS.

BEEN

THEY WERE ALSO TOLD THAT LANDING RIGHTS WERE HANDLED BY THE AIR SERVICES DIVISION AND THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT HAD STEADILY INCREASING AS THE FLEET OF REGISTERED AIRCRAFT OWNED BY HONG KONG AIRLINES HAD GROWN TO 35 BOEING 7475, 19 TRISTARS AND FIVE AIRBUS 3208.

THE MEMBERS SUPPORTED THE IDEA FOR FURTHER EXPANDING AIRPORT FACILITIES TO INCREASE TRAFFIC FLOW, ΤΟ MAINTAIN HONG KONG'S VITAL RCONOMIC POSITION.

THEY WERE ALSO TAKEN AROUND THE AIRPORT FIRE STATION BY THE SENIOR DIVISIONAL OFFICER (AIRPORT), MR CHUNG KUN-YBUNG AND WERE BRIEFED ON THE OPERATION OF THE AIRPORT FIRE CONTINGENT WHICH RANGED FROM ATTENDING TO AIRCRAFT GROUND INCIDENTS AND FUEL SPILLAGES ON THE PARKING APRON TO HANDLING AMBULANCE CALLS.

SHIPPING AND CARGO STATISTICS OF OCEAN-GOING VESSELS FOR 1992

IN 1992, 26,052 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 134.7 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AN OF 4,874 (OR 23%) IN NUMBER AND OF 15.6 MILLION NRT (OR CAPACITY OVER 1991.

INCREASK 13%) IN

THIS INFORMATION IS CONTAINED IN THE "HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT, 1992" PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

IN 1992,

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS WAS 58.4 MILLION TONNES, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 10% OVER 1991.

ANALYSING INCOMING SHIPS BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+1,599), SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (+993) AND OIL TANKERS (+546); WHILE A MAJOR DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF LOG/TIMBER CARRIER (-73).

/ANALYSING INCOMING