Policy Address

  1. Relax the requirements for visiting yachts and develop a Dynamic Yacht Monitoring System, allowing visiting yachts to anchor at government designated waters and navigate in a safe and orderly manner, without having to reserve berths at privately-operated yacht clubs or piers.

  2. Enhance the Electronic Business System to allow one-stop, pre-submission of arrival information from visiting yachts for preliminary vetting by relevant departments.

  3. Authorise relevant Mainland organisations to conduct examinations for local yacht masters, and offer short-term training courses to help visiting yacht masters of visiting yachts from the Mainland obtain qualifications for navigation in Hong Kong waters. These measures will be extended to visiting yachts from overseas in due course.

  4. Promote the systemic development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao individual travel scheme for yachts, and co-operate with the Guangdong Provincial Government on facilitation measures for the northbound travel of yachts from Hong Kong and southbound travel for yachts from the Mainland.