Industry attempts to identify ways to improve facilities, legal framework and training of manpower for future

To develop Hong Kong into a stronger logistics base, the Government has identified three areas to be strengthened, Hong Kong Port and Maritime Board (PMB) secretary, Alex Fong, says.

Since the formation of the Committee on Logistics Services Development under the board in March to improve logistics services, physical infrastructure was identified as one area for improving logistics.

'We have set up a sub-committee to look at the logistics facilities in Hong Kong and the inter-relations between them,' Mr Fong said, adding that the sub- committee would also see what the SAR should do in the future, including opportunity and timing of logistics activities.

Logistics is defined as a management science which embraces the efficient movement and storage of goods, and provision of services. Its scope extends from manufacturing to final delivery, including related aspects of information technology and other control systems, also known as supply chain management.

Although the SAR has one of the finest transport infrastructures in the world, the sub-committee will study how to better utilise and upgrade the existing infrastructure.

It will examine the precise movements of cargo by rail, road, sea and air in and out of Hong Kong.