Logistics & Transport

Exporters sending goods by water or land to EU countries need to overhaul their paperwork, as the bloc’s Import Control System 2 (ICS2) comes into effect for all arriving goods from 3 June onwards.

The history of world trade has usually been an evolutionary one, with ports and transport routes forming and declining over generations.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has announced that it will implement the Industrial Labour Importation Scheme for the construction and transport industries, with a quota of 20,000. The government will launch the scheme this month, and be reviewed within six months after its launch.

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) this month opened its GoGBA Business Centre in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area city of Jiangmen.

Hong Kong exporters are turning increasingly bullish as the post-COVID business environment improves but the mood remains cautious amid an uncertain outlook created by geopolitical tensions.

Many of the concepts around sustainable business require university-level physical or chemical engineering to understand and generate heated debate even within the green community; busy managers of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can have a hard time navigating their way to such goals as Net Zero.