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TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1994

WITH MARCH 1993,

VACANCIES

IN THE

COMPARING MARCH 1994 MANUFACTURING SECTOR FELL BY 19.5%. HOWEVER, VACANCIES IN THE WHOLESALE, RETAIL AND IMPORT/EXPORT TRADES, RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS SECTOR INCREASED BY 17.9% WHILE THOSE IN THE FINANCING, INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS SERVICES SECTOR INCREASED BY 32.2%. VACANCIES ON CONSTRUCTION SITES ALSO RECORDED AN INCREASE OF 6.7% IN MARCH 1994 OVER A YEAR EARLIER.

DETAILED BREAKDOWNS OF THE ABOVE STATISTICS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE QUARTERLY REPORT OF EMPLOYMENT, VACANCIES AND PAYROLL STATISTICS, MARCH 1994 AND THE QUARTERLY REPORT OF EMPLOYMENT AND VACANCIES AT CONSTRUCTION SITES, MARCH 1994. THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE AT $24 PER COPY AND $13 PER COPY RESPECTIVELY AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GROUND FLOOR, GENERAL POST OFFICE BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, HONG KONG AND AT THE PUBLICATIONS SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ON THE 19TH FLOOR, WANCHAI TOWER, 12 HARBOUR ROAD, WAN CHAI, HONG KONG.

INCREASE IN CONTAINER THROUGHPUT CONTINUES

EQUIVALENT CENT MORE

HONG KONG HANDLED MORE THAN 2.3 MILLION 20-FOOT UNITS (TEUS) IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS YEAR, 20.5 PER THAN THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MARINE, MR IAN DALE, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

ANNOUNCING THE CONTAINER THROUGHPUT IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1994, MR DALE SAID CONTAINER TERMINALS IN KWAI CHUNG INCLUDING THE TWO NEWLY COMMISSIONED BERTHS IN CONTAINER TERMINAL 8 HANDLED A TOTAL OF 1,499,993 TEUS, OR 27 PER CENT MORE THAN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

"WHILE THE THROUGHPUT IN THE STREAM SECTOR AT 1.1 PER CENT IS NEGLIGIBLE, THE RIVER TRADE SECTOR CONTINUED TO GROW SIGNIFICANTLY AND RECORDED AN INCREASE OF 54.3 PER CENT.

"THE CONSOLIDATED THROUGHPUT FIGURES IN THE FIRST QUARTER THIS YEAR WERE HIGHER THAN OUR PROJECTIONS," MR DALE SAID.

OF

"THEY SHOW THE PORT'S CURRENT ABILITY TO SERVICE THAT DEMAND BUT THEY ALSO UNDERLINED THE NEED FOR STARTING WORK ON CONTAINER TERMINAL 9 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE," HE SAID.

THE COMPARATIVE CONTAINER STATISTICS IN TEUS ARE:

KHAI CHUNG

FIRST QUARTER 1993 FIRST QUARTER 1994

PERCENTAGE INCREASE

CONTAINER TERMINALS

1,180,717

1,499,993

/STREAM AND

27.0%

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