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Transport and Logistics Bureau

bureau of the Hong Kong Government

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ112707285 ↗
Source-derived summary

Transport and Logistics Bureau (Chinese: 運輸及物流局) is a policy bureau for the Government of Hong Kong. It is responsible for the transport and logistics policy portfolios. The agency was established on 1 July 2022, when the housing portfolios of the former Transport and Housing Bureau was spun off to form the Housing Bureau. The current (since 1 July 2022) Secretary for Transport and Logistics is Lam Sai-hung.

This bureau was newly established under the reorganisation of policy bureaux proposed by Carrie Lam, the fifth Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and was adopted by John Lee, the succeeding Chief Executive after Carrie Lam. On 19 June 2022, the Central People's Government announced the appointment of Lam Sai-hung, former Permanent Secretary for Development (Works), as the first Secretary for Transport and Logistics.

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The public source identifies “Transport and Logistics Bureau” as bureau of the Hong Kong Government. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Transport, Logistics and Bureau.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2022-07-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Transport, Logistics and Bureau providing the first useful test.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112707285. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Transport and Logistics Bureau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.