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The comparative container statistics in TEUS are:

First 10 months of 1995

First 10 months

of 1994

Percentage Increase

Kwai Chung/Stonecutters 6,892,414

6,038,830

14.1

Stream and Elsewhere

2,433,055

2,367,275

2.8

River Trade

1,089,268

759,393

4.3

Total

10,414,737

9,165,498

13.6

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Border crossing opening hours during Lunar New Year

The Hong Kong Government and the relevant authorities of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government announced today (Monday) that the Lok Ma Chau/Huanggang 24-hour border crossing will only be open from 7 am to 10 pm daily for 10 days over the Lunar New Year period from February 18 to 27.

The 24-hour service will be resumed at 7 am on February 28 (10th day of the Lunar New Year).

A Hong Kong Government spokesman explained that cross border traffic was expected to be very low during the Lunar New Year period.

This was the case last year when there were only 200 to 6,000 vehicles a day from the first day to the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, compared with the daily average of over 10,000 on a normal day, he said.

For the overnight facility (10 pm to 7 am), the number of vehicles had dropped from the normal level of around 1,000 to 180 - 400 from the nights of the sixth day to the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, he added.

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