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HKCO20/1
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FM BTC HONG KONG
TO PRIORITY F CO
TELNO 179
OF 29084OZ MAY 91
AND TO PRIORITY DTI, PEKING, LISBON, HONG KONG
41
072707
MDLIAN 4558
BAT PM 2015.
q pa.
масам
($2915
DTI FOR PEP1
FROM BTC AS CONSULATE GENERAL MACAU
MACAU AIRPORT
SUMMARY
VERY LITTLE WORK HAPPENING. NO AIRPORT CHAIRMAN SO NO DECISIONS ON ADDITIONAL FUNDING. STANLEY HO TRIES AGAIN TO ATTRACT HONG KONG INVESTMENT. INDEPENDENTLY, JARDINES MAY BECOME SHAREHOLDER. AIRPORT NOW UNLIKELY TO BE FINISHED UNTIL 1995.
CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY SET UP.
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GRAHAM CALLED WITH SAINTY ON THE BRITISH AIRPORT SERVICES LTD. (BASL) IMPLANT IN THE MACAU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CONSORTIUM (MIAC), CONTRACTED BY MACAU AIRPORT COMPANY (CAM) TO DESIGN AND BUILD MACAU'S AIRPORT. BASL SAID THEIR DESIGNS WERE UNDERGOING A FINAL REDRAFT IN THE WAKE OF THE EARLIER AGREEMENT BETWEEN MACAU AND PEKING ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND WOULD BE READY SOON. APART FROM EXTRICATION OF MUD FROM THE RECLAIM IN FRONT OF THE TERMINAL AREA, NOTHING WAS HAPPENING. THE CONTRACTS FOR PILING
AND RUNWAY HAD STILL TO BE SIGNED.
2.
BASL SAID THE ESTIMATED TIME NEEDED FOR COMPLETION OF ALL RUNWAY, TAXIWAY AND RAMP WORK WAS 40 MONTHS. IT WOULD THEN TAKE ANOTHER 3 MONTHS BEFORE THE AIRPORT WAS OPERATIONAL. SO THE EARLIEST THE AIRPORT COULD NOW BE COMPLETED WAS FEBRUARY 1995. BUT BASL HAD HEARD NOTHING ABOUT ANY PLANS FOR A NEW CHAIRMAN, WITHOUT WHICH NO CONTRACT COULD BE SIGNED.
3. FORMER CAM CHAIRMAN FERREIRA'S SECRETARY SAID SHE THOUGHT IT WAS UNLIKELY A CHAIRMAN WOULD BE APPOINTED UNTIL AFTER THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS. THE GOVERNOR, WHO HAS PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AS UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND HAS CHOSEN AS THE NOW UNDER SECRETARY A MAN WITH NO EXPERIENCE OF MACAU, MAY WANT TO MOVE FASTER. CAM AND MIAC WOULD NOT NECESSARILY BE PRIVY TO HIS PLANS.
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