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Chairman’s Statement
主席報告書
Prospects
With the general pessimistic sentiment towards the global economy
continuing in 2016, we expect a challenging year ahead of us for our
core business in GETS, in terms of business volume. That said, we are
reasonably confident with our ability to increase our GETS pricing without
eroding our market share and our concern could somewhat be mitigated.
Regarding our current GETS licence which is due to expire by end of
2016, the Government have formally expressed its intention to extend it by
two years till the end of 2018. As announced by the Financial Secretary
in the 2016/17 Budget Speech, the Government is planning to establish
a “single window” that connects with other governments’ systems as
well as trade information platforms run by the private sector for ‘one-
stop’ lodging of trade documents and submissions with Government for
trade declaration and customs clearance purposes. With this broad policy
direction set on the Government side, we would need to wait and see
more solid details coming out from the work of the dedicated office to
be set up to co-ordinate implementation of the single window, of which,
we believe GETS is going to be a key component. Admittedly, depending
on the implementation approach of the future single window, our GETS
business might be impacted to a certain extent. Anyhow according to the
Financial Secretary, private sector service providers, like Tradelink, should
have a role to play under the future single window. Indeed, looking at this
positively, we believe we could seize some new business opportunities
from the single window. We would keep a close eye on their work
progress and as the dominant GETS services provider and potentially one
of the key stakeholders of the future single window, we expect our active
participation in the Government’s industry engagement process from
which we could get more insight for the preparation of our GETS business
strategy beyond 2018. As always, we will continue our strategy to improve
our GETS services which our customers consider value-for-money and
at the same time offer more value-added services to enhance customer
stickiness with us. All said, we are confident with the sustainability of
our GETS services at least in the short-to-medium term. To enhance our
business resilience, we will continue working rigorously on other non-
GETS business areas which we have started to diversify some years ago
and some of which are delivering promising results to add to the Group’s
performance in recent years.
展望
由於二零一六年全球經濟狀況普遍仍不太樂觀，預期
年內我們的
GETS
核心業務的交易量將面臨挑戰。然
而，我們有一定信心在不影響市場份額情況下，能夠
增加
GETS
收費，稍減我們這方面的擔憂。我們現有的
GETS
服務牌照將於二零一六年底完結，政府已正式示
意將牌照延長兩年至二零一八年底。財政司司長公佈
的二零一六╱一七年財政預算案演詞中指出，政府正
計劃設立「單一窗口」連接其他政府系統以及商營貿易
資訊平台，讓貿易文件和資料能以「一站式」遞交至政
府作報關及清關用途。政府已訂立政策的大方向，我
們有待政府將成立的專責辦公室提出協調設立單一窗
口的具體細節，我們相信
GETS
為未來單一窗口的一
個主要部分。無可否認，視乎未來單一窗口的實施模
式，我們的
GETS
業務無疑可能受到某程度影響。然
而，據財政司司長所說，商營服務供應商（如貿易通）
於未來單一窗口中應可發揮作用。從正面來看，我們
相信能把握單一窗口帶來的一些新商機。我們會密切
注視有關工作的進展，作為主要的
GETS
服務供應商及
可能為未來單一窗口的重要持份者之一，預期我們在
積極參與政府與行業的諮詢過程中能洞燭先機，有利
籌劃二零一八年以後的
GETS
業務策略。我們會一如既
往貫徹我們的方針，繼續優化我們客戶認同為物有所
值的
GETS
服務，同時提供更多增值服務，加強客戶與
我們的黏性。總而言之，至少於中短期內我們對
GETS
服務的持續發展充滿信心。為增強業務的抗逆力，我
們將繼續努力數年前已開展的其他非
GETS
業務工作，
其中部分業務近年已為本集團業績帶來可喜的成績。
Annual Report 2015
二零一五年年報
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