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Easier road, rail, yacht crossings set for Greater Bay

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Hong Kong is pressing ahead with a series of cross-boundary travel improvements as part of a wider effort to deepen Greater Bay Area integration, said Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan on Saturday. She said the government would continue to enhance the Northbound Travel for Hong Kong Vehicles and Southbound Travel for Guangdong Vehicles schemes, as set out in Hong Kong’s first five-year plan and the Policy Address. The Marine Department and the Guangdong Maritime Safety Administration, Chan also said, will soon sign off on two working arrangements on yacht travel schemes. "We expect that by October there should be good news about southbound travel for Guangdong yachts," she said. Chan added that the government was introducing changes and support measures to the schemes at the same time. "At the time when northbound travel for yachts from Hong Kong was launched, the Marine Department had already set up examination centres in Nansha so that captains from the mainland would