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Hong Kong Port Looks to Ride Out Container Shipping Turmoil

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May 20, 2023
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Hong Kong Port Looks to Ride Out Container Shipping Turmoil

ReutersBy Jonathan Saul LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters)– Hong Kong’s port anticipates a mild increase in container delivery quantities this year in spite of proceeding worldwide chaos in the field.

The worldwide container market, which delivers every little thing from bananas to apples iphone, is revealing indicators of far better returns after a near-decade lengthy downturn.

Nevertheless, frets over worldwide retail need as well as a lot of ships have actually remained to place the brakes on a larger recuperation.

Hong Kong’s Secretary for Transport as well as Housing, Frank Chan Fan, claimed container throughput was anticipated to raise somewhat this year from 19.8 million TEUs (20-foot comparable devices) in 2016 as well as 20 million TEUs in 2015.

“This year it is going up by a single digit percentage,” Chan informed Reuters on the sidelines of London International Shipping Week, including that it was prematurely to anticipate concerning 2018.

Trading as well as logistics make up 22 percent of Hong Kong’s gdp as well as 20 percent of its work.

Hong Kong’s delivery ton of money rose with the Pearl River Delta export boom of the 1990s, however its when world-leading port has actually slid to 5th area by throughput, behind the landmass ports of Shanghai as well as Shenzhen.

Analysts sight competitors from various other Chinese ports as posturing an expanding threat to Hong Kong.

With several of the greatest property costs worldwide, Hong Kong likewise deals with problems with any kind of prospective growth of port centers.

“Hong Kong could do better if we have lower land prices, lower property costs,” Chan claimed.

“We are trying to boost the higher value end of maritime cargo volume. So, we are hopeful,” Chan claimed.

Hong Kong authorized a contract today with Britain to grow business co-operation in the maritime field.

Hong Kong, which went back to Chinese policy in 1997, is undertaking a variety of facilities tasks consisting of the building of a 22.9 kilometre (14-mile) bridge throughout the Pearl River Estuary.

An expansion of the city’s airport terminal paths, which is anticipated to be finished in 2024, is approximated to see air freight quantities expand from 4.5 million tonnes presently to 9 million tonnes in coming years, Chan claimed.

He claimed Hong Kong looked for to get from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trillion-dollar press to construct a modern-day Silk Road– referred to as Belt as well as Road– which intends to produce land, sea as well as air courses from Asia toEurope “We have to co-benefit from the Belt and Road initiative,” Chan claimed. “It is not a game that the winning one takes all – it has to be a collaborative approach.” (Editing by Susan Fenton)

( c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017.

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