Hong Kong 2006
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Hong Kong:The Facts
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Transport
Roads
The 1 984 km of roads (as at end-2006) carry 552 980 licensed vehicles, or about 279 vehicles per kilometre
Bridges
Longest: Tsing Ma suspension bridge (main span 1 377 metres) and the cable-stayed Ting Kau Bridge (two main spans totalling 923 metres)
Air movements
2006#—280 412 flights; 43.28 million passengers; 3.58 million tonnes of freight
Shipping movements
2006—39 020 ocean vessel arrivals; 39 440 departures; port cargo throughput 238.2 million tonnes
Container throughput
2006—23.54 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units
Notes: figures presented on this page refer to those released up to end-March 2007
# provisional figures
less than 0.005 million
§ less than 0.05%
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