HK's passengers to reach 10 mln in holidays

The Hong Kong Immigration Department announced Tuesday that an estimated 10.95 million passengers will pass by land, sea as well as air carry out points during the arriving Yuletide as well as New Year legal legal holiday period, representing an enlarge of about 9 percent over the same duration final year.

To cope with the anticipated complicated traffic, the Immigration Department has minimized leave for staff working during carry out points as well as has arranged additional officers to be posted during different checkpoints during the legal legal holiday period.

Additional confidence guards will be deployed during some busy carry out points to provide crowd government support.

For closer co-operation as well as co-ordination during these periods, the Immigration Department, Police, Customs as well as Excise Department as well as the MTR Corporation will set up the joint command center.

This year's Yuletide legal legal holiday in Hong Kong is Dec. 25-27. New Year legal legal holiday is Jan. 1.