Cargo throughput at Hong Kong International Airport in 2006 hit
3.58 million tons, representing an increase of 1.51 million tons,
or 72.95 percent, compared with 2001, according to government
statistics.
"Hong Kong retains air cargo handling crown," Hong Kong's
Information Service Department said on its website, citing
statistics from the October issue of the Hong Kong Monthly Digest
of Statistics published by the Census and Statistics
Department.
The Hong Kong special administrative region government
attributed the growth to a rise in outward air cargo, which surged
1.1 million tons to 2.28 million tons, while inward air cargo grew
by 406,000 tons to 1.3 million tons in the same five-year
period.
(Xinhua News Agency October 23, 2007)
