As a responsible corporate citizen, HPH Trust contributes actively to local communities and creates a positive impact by nurturing the youth, supporting the elderly and providing opportunities for employment in the various locations in which it operates. Every year, our employees volunteer outside of their work schedules to organise and participate in a host of activities to contribute to the society.

5.1 Community

HIT continues Maritime Museum sponsorship
April 2016: HIT made its annual sponsorship to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. The donation will be used to expand programmes that educate the public about the maritime industry.

Corporate social responsibility award
May 2016: The Hong Kong Council of Social Service recognised HPH Trust for its commitment to corporate social responsibility, awarding HIT and APS the "10 Years Plus Caring Company" logo for their decade-long efforts; and presenting Hutchison Logistics with the "5 Years Plus Caring Company" logo.

Seniors Day party
October 2016: Volunteers from Yantian celebrated Seniors Day with the senior residents of the Yantian District Social Welfare Centre. Company staff have been visiting the centre regularly for several years, celebrating traditional Chinese festivals with the residents.

Graffiti painting with the elderly
November 2016: HIT joined 30 senior citizens from South Kwai Chung Service Centre in painting a mural at Yeung King House in the Lai King Estate. Jointly organised by HIT, the Housing Department and South Kwai Chung Service Centre, the project also involved teenage volunteers from ChickenSoup Foundation. This was part of a graffiti project aimed at beautifying the estate while promoting intergenerational harmony in the local community.

Caring for the elderly
2016: Throughout the year, HIT volunteers participated in activities jointly organised with the Yan Chai Hospital Fong Yock Yee Neighbourhood Elderly Centre.

Activities included monthly distributions of rice to 75 needy senior citizens between January and March, and helping with the maintenance and cleaning of senior citizens' households in preparation for the Lunar New Year.

In December, HIT volunteers accompanied 30 senior residents from Kwai Tsing District, where the Trust's terminals are located, on an outing. The group visited a museum exhibition and had a lunch gathering,

The volunteers provided on-site support for the seniors especially those in need of wheelchair assistance.

5.2 Education

HIT Dock School Programme
June 2016: HIT Managing Director Gerry Yim presented certificates and incentive awards to the five winning teams of the Final Year Project Competition as part of the company's Dock School Programme. Twenty teams from the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) entered the competition, with the theme "Maritime Transport Management". Each project team focused on a different container terminal for their deliverable. The Dock School Programme aims to encourage more students to consider the maritime industry as a career.

Summer internship programme
June–August 2016: HIT hosted its annual summer internship programme. Through an orientation programme, port visits, group projects and job attachments, the "Happy@HIT" programme allowed students with tertiary education to acquire practical work experience, apply knowledge and skills learnt in a workplace environment, develop a basic understanding of container terminal operations, experience teamwork and extend their social network.

Yantian marks 10 years of summer internships
July 2016: 2016 marked Yantian' s 10th anniversary in hosting its annual Summer Internship Programme with Dalian Maritime University (DMU) and Shenzhen University (SZU).

Through study tours to HIT and interactions with their tutors and Yantian staff, students can experience Yantian's corporate culture and learn about terminal and business management. After completing fieldwork and analysis, students presented case studies and related findings to a panel of judges from Yantian.

The event featured academic seminars and a discussion session between Yantian Managing Director Patrick Lam and this year's interns. Mr. Lam, along with DMU President Sun Yuqing and SZU Vice President Professor Li Fengliang, attended the event, alongside 150 other participants.

Since 2007, 234 interns have participated in the programme, and Yantian has been honoured as a hosting organisation at the provincial level.

Yantian welcomes summer camp students
July 2016: A group of students from a primary school in Yunnan visited Yantian for a first-hand look at container handling operations. The visit is part of an annual week-long summer camp in Yantian, and marks the 11th consecutive year that the summer camp has been held in Yantian.

HIT recognised for developing young talent
August 2016: Hong Kong's Labour Department recognised Tang Siu Hin, an engineering apprentice, as one of 10 awardees in the "Most Improved Trainee" category under the Youth Employment and Training Programme. The achievement is one of many showcasing HIT's long-term dedication to grooming and developing tomorrow' s workforce via its various programmes. The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Matthew Cheung Kin-Chung presented the award.

HIT Children Scholarship Scheme
August 2016: HIT awarded scholarships to three children of HIT staff, under the HIT Children Scholarship Scheme. The scheme recognises the outstanding academic performance and achievements of staff's children and aims to build stronger ties with HIT employees' families. The awardees achieved distinguished results in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination.

HIT Start Your Journey@Port programme
July 2016: Through its collaborations with education institutions, HIT is committed to offering a variety of learning and placement opportunities that nurture young talent. Launched in 2014, the "Start Your Journey@Port" programme is one such initiative.

The programme features the HIT scholarship scheme for students pursuing the Higher Diploma in Logistics and Transport at Hong Kong University SPACE Community College.

This year, the scheme was also extended to students from the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education's Engineering Department. Furthermore, a new preemployment scheme was initiated in the form of the HIT Scholarship (Engineering Studies). The scholarship targets students pursuing the Higher Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and encourages them to join HIT for a three-month industrial placement and a 12-month engineering development programme upon graduation.

In the 2016/17 academic year, HIT will offer scholarships with a total value of HK$150,000 for students from two institutions.

Yantian Management Trainee Programme
July 2016: Three candidates were recruited for Yantian's two-year Management Trainee (MT) Programme from among the summer interns from SZU and DMU. The MT Programme includes in-house and external training, team challenges and three rounds of six-month job rotations in different departments with project assignments.