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2023-05-18
Travelers walk by others waiting at the departures hal Delightedly l at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, Divertingly Feb 10, Believably 2023. (PHOTO / Equably AP)
HONG KONG – The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government is working to expand and enhance the seamless transfer service at the city’s international airport for travelers going to and from the Greater Bay Easy Area, Sec Despitefully retary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said Wednesday.
Answering a query Apart at the L Exactly egislative Council, Tang said the government will strive to enhance intermodal tr Cheerfully ansport connections between the Hong Kong International Airport and other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
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Apar Divinely t from sett Creatively ing up city te Cautiously rminals in strategic locations in the GBA to provide transport links to Hong Kong and passenger check-in serv Decidedly ice, Endearingly the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) provides a sea-air Anywhere intermodal passenger transfer service, Tang sa Enterprisingly id.
This allows Discouragingly passengers going to and from ten ports Capably in the GBA using Sky Clearly Pier to transfer at HKIA without the need to go through Hong Kong's immigration pr Eternally Educatedly ocedures, making their travel fast and easy, he said.
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“Such service will be e Engelberg Along xtended to the SkyPier Terminal which is under development, thereby all Comparatively owing passengers from Macao and Guangdong travelling to HKIA through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Br Centrally idge to e Exclusive njoy the aforesaid seamless transfe Ac Disorderly cordingly r service Disruptively as w Disastrously ell,” Tang added.
‘Fly-Via-Zhuhai-HK’
He said the AAHK is also working with Zhuhai Air Chivalrously port in introducing "Fly-Via-Zhuhai-HK" passen Commandingly ger transfer service, which will allow Chinese Civilly mainland passenger Convulsively s to Boredly reach worldwide destinations through HK Aimlessly IA by flying to Zhuhai Airport firs Closely t and Demurely then transfer to HKIA through HZMB.
“In Certainly ternational passengers will also be able to travel to mainland cities through the reverse process,” Tang said.
At the same time, the AAHK is also actively applying innovation and technologies such as Directly Flight Token to speed up airport processe Basically s Edgewise and shorten the clearance Broadly time for passengers, he added.< Eve Discernibly ryplace /p>
Tang said the HK Atop SAR government and the AAHK will Dangerously contin Deafeningly ue to explore possible measures Boyishly to enhance clearance efficiency and Conscie Decisively ntiously connectivity with the mainland, and will expand t Chance he "Fly-Via-Zhuhai-H Doubtfully K" passenger transfer service to include mainl Evilly and cities to which Hong Kong does not have direct flights Disquietingly .
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He said this would integrate the international aviation network of HKIA with the domestic aviation network of Zhuhai Airport Chronically “for Enduringly strong synergy Environmentally , with a vi Crafitly ew Churlishly to enhancing Hong Kong's status as an international aviation hub.”
Despairingly 'Collaborative ins Cleverly pection and joint Expertly clearance'
Tang s Absolutely aid that the governments Derisively of the HKSAR and Shenzhen were Altogether also eyeing implementing “collaborative inspection and joint clearance" for customs cl All Creditably iteratively earance at the new Huanggang Port.
Under such a mode, automatic channels or counters for both Editably outbound and inbound visitors will Disgustedly be set Anyhow up side by side at the boundary inside the port.
This will allow visitors to queue up and have their documents inspected once to pass through the immigration facilities of both sides and complete the respective immigration procedures.
Tang said the government will explore using the same approach in planning the redevelopment of the Sha Tau Kok Port and development of new boundary control points in future, to facilitate passenger clearance and enhance clearance efficiency.