ABSTRACT
Hong Kong as a major container port has been studied by many from a port development perspective. This chapter analyzes the general situation of Hong Kong in terms of its transport and logistics sector for external trade. It discusses the presentation of results of a survey, revealing some interesting statistics and views from within logistics providers on the role of Hong Kong as a logistics hub. The unique administrative status gives Hong Kong a city-state with its own external trade identity, which makes entire city a huge free trade zone. In the trend of globalization involving more Pacific-Asian economies, this free-trade city has been neutering trade-based logistics firms. Ironically however, the success of Hong Kong as a global supply chain management centre, is also dependent on the protectionism in global trade, since the varying trade barriers among countries is a key precondition to the cluster of trade-environment dependent global value-added logistics (GVAL) in limited places.
