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Free Flow - China - Hong Kong works to keep on trucking
The traffic can be heard, seen and smelled
HONG KONG, China -International Herald Tribune ( France) -23 Aug 2006: -- The view is of trucks and containers in the once-rural foreground, and the skyscrapers of mainland cities like Shenzhen beyond... Keeping those trucks moving is vital not just to truckers, freight forwarders, mainland manufacturers and exporters in Hong Kong. It is also vital to the Hong Kong container port at Kwai Chung. Ports capable of receiving containers and sailing them down the rivers to Hong Kong or directly to other world ports have sprung up along the Pearl River Delta in southern China... Two initiatives in the past 18 months, the product of collaboration between the Hong Kong and mainland authorities, are aimed at keeping the trucking competitive and the goods moving... The idea is to allow for more than one delivery job to take place in a day. So the driver can drop his cargo on the mainland and pop back to Hong Kong for another load while the first is being processed... Of more significance is a more recent measure called the "Green Lane". It cuts out one of the two customs checks required at the Hong Kong- mainland boundary... There, the goods are checked through customs, bonded and electronically sealed, not to be re- opened or rechecked in Hong Kong... Once sealed, the goods are put on a "Green Lane" truck, which at the moment will belong to one of six companies licensed to carry these goods...
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