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China - Hong Kong Cross-border Co-operation
on
Electronic Cargo Manifest Service
(Hong Kong, 18 July 2002) Tradelink Electronic Commerce Limited
and Guangdong Nanfang Communication Group Corporation signed a
Memorandum of Understanding today to jointly develop the "China
- Hong Kong Cargo Manifest Interface" which will help make
available to river carriers a more efficient and convenient electronic
cargo manifest service.
Tradelink is Hong Kong's largest electronic service provider,
with an impressive customer base of 53,000 companies. Tradelink's
current electronic service portfolio includes Restrained Textiles
Export Licence, Import and Export Trade Declaration, Certificate
of Origin, etc. Guangdong Nanfang is a subsidiary of Guangdong
Telecommunication and a key development enterprise in the Guangdong
province.
It is in Tradelink's plan to roll out the electronic cargo manifest
service in the fourth quarter of 2002. However, concerns have
been raised in respect to double handling of cargo data by the
river carriers to meet the requirements of both Hong Kong and
Mainland authorities. To address those concerns, Tradelink has
come into agreement with Guangdong Nanfang, the Mainland service
provider, to jointly work out a one-stop interface for electronic
submission of manifests.
The "China - Hong Kong Cargo Manifest Interface" is
a common interface process which makes it possible for river carriers
to input just once the cargo manifest data and send to Tradelink
and Guangdong Nanfang, without the need of duplication of data
entry.
Mr. Justin Yue, CEO of Tradelink, said, "Tradelink is honoured
to work hand in hand with Guangdong Nanfang Communication Group
Corporation on the Cargo Manifests interface. I am sure today's
collaboration is only the beginning. I have every confidence to
say that our two organisations are set to work more closely to
promote cross-border trade in the region with the development
of more value-added transaction services."
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For press enquiries, please contact Tradelink (Corporate Communications)
on 2599 1686.
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