Transportation and Logistics Hub

Hong Kong, Asia Pacific's Transportation and Logistics Hub

Hong Kong is one of the key transportation and logistics hubs in Asia-Pacific. As a free port with strong support services in telecommunications, legal, banking and insurance, it plays a pre-eminent role in this fast growing and dynamic industry. Hong Kong's advantages also include its ideal geographic location, which is close to the major economies in Asia, and its superb natural deep-water harbour.

Following mainland China's continuous economic growth, Hong Kong's transportation and logistics industry increasingly serves its rapidly developing hinterland. The Pearl River Delta (PRD) - with the commercial centres of Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan -is one of the most robust manufacturing centres in the world and a major portion of the PRD's export cargo flows through Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's airport is the largest international air cargo handler in the world with a throughput of 3.74 million tonnes in 2006. Hong Kong serves over 80 scheduled airlines, providing more than 5,000 flights per week to more than 150 destinations. Half of the world's population live within five hours flight time.

Hong Kong's seaport handled 23.9 million TEUs in 2006. The volume of containers carried by ocean-going vessels is forecast to grow to over 40 million TEUs by 2020.

Hong Kong is a free port with strong support services