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Attention News Editor:

Media representatives are invited to observe HMS Trenchant's entry into harbour and securing alongside RFA Diligence. Members of the press should arrive at the Main Gate, Prince of Wales Barracks, Edinburgh Place, Central, no later than 7.30 am on Friday where they will be transported to the Outer Harbour by Royal Navy vessel.

This facility is expected to provide good photographic opportunities.

Members of the press may expect to be back in Central before 10 am.

End/Thursday, August 24, 1995

HK's external trade statistics by mode of transport

The value of Hong Kong's external trade by ocean accounted for 49% of Hong Kong's external trade in the first half of 1995, according to the statistics released by the Census and Statistics Department today (Thursday).

Another 25% was transported by land and yet another 20% by air. The remaining 5.4% included shipment by river, postal parcels, and accompanied goods of passengers travelling on various means of transport.

Shipment by ocean amounted to $659.2 billion in the first half of 1995, with an increase of 19% over that in the same period in 1994, Hong Kong's external trade by land went up by 17% to $338 billion while that by air also went up by 32% to $266 billion in the first half of 1995.

Table 1 shows changes in value of Hong Kong's external trade analysed by mode of transport in the first half of 1995 compared with the same period in 1994.

The United States remained the largest destination for Hong Kong's total exports (including domestic exports and re-exports) by ocean, accounting for a share of 32% in value terms in the first half of 1995. The value of total exports by ocean to the United States went up by 15% in the first half of 1995.