2020 Chief Executive’s Policy Address
Circular Ref: A(20)218
Issue Date: 25 Nov 2020
Today, the Chief Executive delivered her Policy Address. For details, please see below for the full text of the Policy Address and its Supplement 5, which covers the maritime industry among others.
Policy Address
Supplement 5
Specifically, you may wish to know that Supplement 5 gives a summary of the progress of the various policy initiatives of the government regarding the maritime, port and logistics industry, as follows:
- Injected $200 million into the Maritime and Aviation Training Fund in May 2019.
- Enhanced Hong Kong’s position as a global maritime hub: including (i) establishment of the first-ever overseas branch of The International Chamber of Shipping in Hong Kong in 2019; (ii)designating HongKong by the Baltic and International Maritime Council as the fourth arbitration venue, alongside London, New York and Singapore; (iii) setting up regional offices of the Hong Kong Shipping Registry in three cities (London, Shanghai and Singapore) in 2020; and (iv) enacting the Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Ship Leasing Tax Concessions) Ordinance 2020 to provide tax concessions to qualifying ship leasing business.
- Set up a dedicated task force comprising industry members to study tax measures to encourage more commercial principals of the maritime industry to choose Hong Kong as their base of operation.
- Launched a $345 million pilot subsidy scheme to provide financial incentive to qualified third-party logistics service providers for adopting technology to enhance productivity.
- Concluded the feasibility studies for two port back-up sites in Tsing Yi and Kwai Chung with a view to releasing the sites by phases through public tender for developing multi-storey port back-up and modern logistics facilities starting 2021.
- 於2019年5月向「海運及空運人才 培訓基金」注資 2 億元。
- 提升香港作為環球航運樞紐的地位， 有關措施包括:( 一 ) 國際航運公會於 2019年在香港設立其首個海外辦事 處;( 二 ) 波羅的海國際航運公會把香 港列為繼倫敦、紐約和新加坡後第四 個指定仲裁地點;( 三 ) 香港船舶註冊 處於 2020 年在三個城市(即倫敦、上 海和新加坡)設立區域辦事處;以及 ( 四 ) 制定《2020 年稅務(修訂)(船舶 租賃稅務寬減)條例》，向合資格船舶 租賃業務提供稅務優惠。
- 成立包括業界成員的專責小組，研究 稅務措施，以鼓勵更多海運業的業務 委託人選擇香港作為他們的營運基 地。
- 推出為數 3.45 億元的先導資助計劃， 向合資格的第三方物流服務供應商提 供經濟誘因，鼓勵他們應用科技提高 生產力。
- 已就位於青衣和葵涌的兩幅港口後 勤用地完成可行性研究， 以期由 2021 年起分階段以公開招標形式出售 該兩幅用地，以發展多層港口後勤兼 現代物流設施。
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