Hong Kong Won’t Impose Special Port Fees Despite US-China Spat

Hong Kong will not start imposing port fees targeting individual countries, despite China and the US charging special levies aimed at one another’s ships.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region “does not impose, nor does it have any plans to impose, special port fees on vessels owned or operated by individual countries or regions, or on vessels flying specific flags,” a government spokesperson said in response to questions from Bloomberg News.

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