18 Mar 2005
RIVER TRADE TERMINAL CO LTD v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE
- Citation
- RIVER TRADE TERMINAL CO LTD v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACV17/2004
The words 'vessels regularly employed in trading or going within the Pearl River region' in SC16 mean vessels which regularly trade or go between ports within the Pearl River region; vessels that merely call at Hong Kong as part of a wider intra-Asia circuit but do not trade within the Pearl River region are not permitted to berth at the RTT; the appellant's Proposal is background context and not contractually prescriptive of permissible users.