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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1994

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HK'S CONTAINER THROUGHPUT INCREASES SUSTAINED

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HONG KONG HANDLED MORE THAN 3.1 MILLION TWENTY-FOOT EQUIVALENT MONTHS THIS YEAR, UNITS (TEUS) OF CONTAINERS DURING THE FIRST FOUR

A 20.1 PER CENT INCREASE REPRESENTING

SAME OVER THE

PERIOD LAST YEAR, THE DIRECTOR OF MARINE, MR IAN DALE, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

DALE

ANNOUNCING THE LATEST CONTAINER THROUGHPUT STATISTICS, MR SAID THE TERRITORY'S MONTHLY CONTAINER THROUGHPUT INCREASES SHOWED SUSTAINED DEMAND, AND HONG KONG'S ABILITY TO MEET WITH IT.

"THE KWAI CHUNG CONTAINER TERMINALS HANDLED 2,085,769 TEUS

WHEN RECORDED A STEADY 28 PER CENT GROWTH

COMPARED WITH CONTAINERS HANDLED IN THE CORRESPONDING TIME IN 1993, MR DALE NOTED.

AND

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THE STREAM SECTOR SHOWED A SLIGHT DECREASE OF 1.8 PER CENT HANDLED 833,487 TEUS IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS.

AND

CENT

MR DALE SAID: "RIVER TRADE ACHIEVED A HUGE 54 PER ALTHOUGH THIS WAS FROM A SMALL BASE LINE OF 171,530 TEUS FOR THE PERIOD LAST YEAR.

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MR DALE SAID THERE WAS EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE GROWTH IN HONG KONG'S CONTAINER THROUGHPUT WOULD CONTINUE.

SURGE,

SAME

STEADY

"BUT WITHOUT NEW HANDLING FACILITIES COMING ON LINE ON EFFECT OF SCHEDULE THE SITUATION COULD WELL CHANGE BY LATE 1995. THE THIS ON THE PORT MUST NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED," HE SAID.

THE FOLLOWING IS STATISTICS IN TEUS:

THE TABLE FOR THE

COMPARATIVE

CONTAINER

FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1993

FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF

1994

INCREASE PERCENTAGE

KWAI CHUNG CONTAINER TERMINALS

1,630,115

2,085,769

28.0 PER CENT

STREAM AND ELSEWHERE

RIVER TRADE

TOTAL

848,438

171,530

2,649,527

833,487

-1.8 PER CENT

264,097

54.0 PER CENT

3,183,148

20.1 PER CENT

556 NOTE: TO AVOID DOUBLE COUNTING, FIGURES ARE ADJUSTED DOWNWARDS BY

205 TEUS IN TEUS IN 1993 AND

1994 RESPECTIVELY HANDLED BY TERMINAL VESSELS CONTRACTED TO WORK IN THE STREAM.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

FOR ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CALL THE INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS SECTION OF THE MARINE DEPARTMENT ON TEL 852 4425 AND 852 4423 DURING OFFICE HOURS OR 9493 8262 OUTSIDE OFFICE HOURS.

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