The Hong Kong Logistics Association has offered to assist the Government in setting up a specialised training institute to upgrade the skills of logistics professionals.
Association chairman Raymond Leung said that over the past 12 months it had become apparent there was a lack of trained staff.
'Investing in the training of logistics personnel at various levels - operative, certificate, diploma, higher diploma/associate degree - not only meets the needs of the industry but also equips the unemployed from dying industries,' Mr Leung said.
He said Forms Five and Seven graduates could be equipped with a skill most needed by a fast-growing industry.
Mr Leung said Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's stated aim in his 2000 Policy Address to make Hong Kong an international logistics hub gave practitioners in the industry the biggest stimulus.
He urged the Government to support the establishment of an accreditation system, so that all logistics training and resources could be better organised and utilised to establish a sound qualifications framework and programme.
'We have worked out a membership structure to peg the education training, and with an accreditation system and professional recognition by the Government, our membership system will meet international recognition,' Mr Leung said.