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Following is a question by the Hon Sin Chung-kai and a written reply by the Secretary for Transport and Housing, Ms Eva Cheng, at the Legislative Council meeting today (December 12):
Question:
The Digital Trade and Transportation Network (DTTN) System, which has been in operation since December 2005, provides a neutral and open e-platform for the logistics sector to interconnect various information systems along various supply chains. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether it knows:
(a) the total number of registered clients to date since the introduction of the DTTN System, with a breakdown by trade, as well as the respective percentages of these figures in the number of institutions in the trade concerned; and
(b) the utilization of the DTTN System at present, including the number and value of transactions processed each day, as well as the respective percentages of these figures in all the transactions concerned?
Reply:
Madam President,
(a) The Digital Trade and Transportation Network (DTTN) was launched on January 1, 2006 in a pilot stage until September 30, 2006. It has been in operation since October 1, 2006. As at the end of November 2007, there were 1,118 customers registered with the Digital Trade and Transportation Network Limited (DTTNCo). A breakdown of customers by industry type is listed below:
Banking / Finance / Insurance 3
Carrier / Forwarder 123
Electronics / Automobile / Electrical Appliance/
Computer hardware 243
Garment / Textiles 286
General trading 139
Household items 50
Retail / Fashion accessories 94
Software vendors / solution providers 16
Toys 34
Trade Associations 3
Others 127
Total:1,118
In addition to the above 1,118 customers registered directly with DTTNCo, there is a total of 2,117 indirect customers who are connected to DTTN through DTTN interconnected Service Providers. As at the end of November 2007, the total number of direct and indirect DTTNCo customers is 3,235. According to the latest statistics of the Census and Statistics Department, there are 305,436 establishments in Hong Kong, and so about 1% of these establishments are customers of DTTNCo.
(b) The number of transactions processed through DTTN is increasing steadily. DTTN processed 3,398 transactions in 2006. In the first eleven months of 2007, the total number of transactions rose to 34,046. This is more than ten times of the full-year figure of 2006. The number of transactions processed since the launch of service is 37,444.
As regard the utilization of the DTTN System at present, taking November 2007 as an example, DTTN processed a total of 9,413 transactions, equivalent to a daily average of 314 transactions.
The scope of DTTN service is to transform the document structure from the sender's format to the recipient's format. For information security reason, DTTN does not access the content, including the transaction value, of the document during the transformation process. Hence, it is not possible for us to provide information in this respect.
As to the respective percentages of these figures in all the transactions concerned, given that operators in the logistics industry are predominantly private enterprises, and their total number of transactions is not public information, it is not possible for us to provide the percentages of the above-mentioned figures in all the transactions concerned.
Ends/Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Issued at HKT 15:18
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