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Reorganization of the harbour area Kwai Tsing di Hong Kong in order to optimize the ability in the field of the container
the government starts a procedure in order to redefine the activities
June 10, 2015
The government of Hong Kong has announced today the start of a procedure for the definition of rearranges of the harbour area of Kwai Tsing to the aim to resolve the problems of congestion of the port. The area Kwai Tsing Container Terminals (KTCT), that it occupies a surface of 279 hectares, accommodates nine container terminal for a total of 24 docks, terminals that in the 2014 have enlivened 79% of the entire containerized trade of the port of Hong Kong. Scope of the initiative is to optimize the ability to containerized trade of the port of call to the aim to answer in the next few years to the increase of the volumes waited for.
In fact, second the last study commissioned from the government and published to the end of 2014, is previewed that the port of Hong Kong you record a annual medium increase of +1.5% of the containerized trade until 2030. According to the government, such increment returns the potenziamento of the efficiency of harbour infrastructures indispensable, in particular those of area KTCT that are all managed by private operators, that is by Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT), Modern Terminals Ltd. (MTL), CSX World Terminal, COSCO-HIT and Asia Container Terminals (ACT).
Bordering to the 279 hectares of harbour area of the KTCT are others 100 hectares of areas used for activities connected with those harbour ones, that lotteries in small assigned to numerous operators of the fields of the logistics and the road haulage are subdivided.
Beyond these areas an ulterior expansion of the harbour activities is not possible. Therefore the government of Hong Kong considers that in order to answer to the future development of the traffic it is necessary to optimize I use it of the 100 hectares of areas of Kwai Tsing on which enterprises of the logistics and the road haulage operate through a reorganization of the activities and of the types of operators that currently work to you, privileging those which more closely are connected with the activities of the harbour terminals that enliven containerized trade.
With such objective the government has demanded to the parts interested from the initiative the shipment of opinions on this plan.
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The government of Hong Kong has announced today the start of a procedure for the definition of rearranges of the harbour area of Kwai Tsing to the aim to resolve the problems of congestion of the port. The area Kwai Tsing Container Terminals (KTCT), that it occupies a surface of 279 hectares, accommodates nine container terminal for a total of 24 docks, terminals that in the 2014 have enlivened 79% of the entire containerized trade of the port of Hong Kong. Scope of the initiative is to optimize the ability to containerized trade of the port of call to the aim to answer in the next few years to the increase of the volumes waited for.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
