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About the Marine Department?s Electronic Business System |
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The Marine Department of the HKSAR is the administrator of the port of Hong Kong and is
responsible for all navigational matters in Hong Kong for ensuring safe
operation of the port and shipping in Hong Kong waters and administering the
Hong Kong Shipping Register.
Hong Kong is a major international shipping center and is growing in
importance as a hub port for China and world trade. To cope with this dynamic
challenge and the emerging e-commerce environment in the 21st century, the
Marine Department's Electronic Business System (MD eBS) is implemented to provide
for the handling of port formality documents required by this department, the
Department of Health and Immigration Department, covering the following list of
services:
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1. Pre-arrival notification
2. Report of arrival and departure (M.O.618 and M.O.877),
Marine Department's Shipping Report, General Declaration
3. Port Clearance Permit Verification for ocean-going vessels
4. Application for permission to work cargo at special anchorages
5. Various permits including repair permit, dead ship permit etc.
6. Application for Government mooring buoys
7. Submission of Dangerous Goods Manifest
8. Pre-arrival Clearance application with attachment of crew list
9. Application for Radio Pratique and subsequent permission/rejection
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The objectives of establishing MD eBS for
handling port formalities and other related services for the Marine Department are to:
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Provide a one-stop electronic submission
solution to handle various port formalities and shipping related
activities in Hong Kong |
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Provide built-in intelligence
to extract the appropriate information from a single or multifaceted
submission and distribute it to the Marine Department's corresponding backend systems or
Government Departments for processing |
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Provide data exchange capability in XML format as recommended by
International Maritime Organization (IMO) and interact with other ports'
and e-Business systems in future |
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Maintain the competitive position of the
port of Hong Kong |
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The Technology Overview
Web-based technologies are deployed for being platform-independent,
high-performance, and very user-friendly. The MD eBS application design
is based on the industry-standard J2EE which inherently offers all
enterprise qualities such as resilience, scalability, secure authorization
access and transaction management. |
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The
story of beneficial and collaborative partnership |
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This MD eBS is provided not only to streamline the process flows
for the multitude of port and shipping related formalities and services, but also to
derive the whole package of benefits as follows:
Phase
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Provide a better service to meet the shipping
community needs on e-business by enabling submission of
port formality documents electronically |
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Save their resources and
operating costs involved in preparing paper application and submitting port formalities
in person for acquiring the department's service |
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Provide convenience for the public to obtain public
services online through user-friendly and
interactive service interface |
Phase
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Provide one-stop lodgement
services through electronic means for all port formality documents related to Marine
Department, Immigration Department and Department of Health such that shipping agents
can comfortably comply with the tight schedules of port formalities submissions |
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Provide a total e-business solution to support the
submission and collection of the majority of routine and regular port
formality related documents at anytime and anywhere |
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Fulfil the obligation as a member of the International
Maritime Organization by compliance with its recommendations to provide
electronic data interchange exclusively for ships arriving and leaving port |
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Eliminate its clients' redundant data
submission and reduce their resources spent
in acquiring Marine Department's services |
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Provide query facility on submission and payment status |
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Enable data storage and sharing on vessel-voyage related document submissions with other government departments |
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Enable capturing, storage and query of vessel
related information for Marine Department's sections on shared basis to carry out their
duties more effectively |
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Allow data sharing with some government departments |
With the implementation of this MD eBS, the
government provides the community with a better business environment in
terms of operating costs. The shipping industry can run the business with a
lower cost and increase the competitive edge. Having all the competitive
advantages in place, the system will increase the efficiency and the
flexibility of port services and enhance the competitiveness of Hong Kong in
international trade as well as facilitate the development of Hong Kong SAR
as a logistics hub in Asia.
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Online interactive introduction |
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For online interactive introduction of eBS2, please click here.
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