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RATIONALE
PEP 1 is seeking to maximise the potential for UK industry arising
from the largest civil engineering project in the world, the Hong
Kong Port and Airport Development Scheme (PADS).
The Branch is responsible for supporting UK industry in winning major
overseas project business in both the port and airport sectors as
well as tunnelling, rail links and other civil engineering sectors
all of which feature in the PADS project. In addition the Branch has
responsibility for maximising UK companies pursuit of other project
and the sub-contract opportunities arising from major projects
worldwide by application of techniques successfully employed on the
Channel Tunnel Project. The Hong Kong PADS Project is a high
prestige project offering substantial opportunities for UK industry
including small and medium sized companies. The scale of the
project, the diversity of the opportunities, combined with current
levels of project activity within PEP1 and the apparent lack of
sufficient resource of British Trade Commission in relation to the
project scale suggests that additional resources need to be directed
to maximise the potential for UK industry.