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not be seen the
because of their links with Stanley Ho's companies. It is must yet clear to whom the contract will go, but the winner
to have no conflict of interest with those bidding terminal construction and airport equipment contract. bidders were Scott, Wilson and Kirkpatrick, Lufthansa/Franfurt
and the Airport
because The last is unlikely to win BASL's design of the airport.
BAA.
for
Other
of
The short list of companies prequalified in early November for the terminal and equipment contract are:
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AMEC Plc / Engil Sq / Gammon Hughes Airport Systems (UK / Portugal / USA)
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3.
4.
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Spie Batignolles / Hip Hing Construction (France / Hong Kong) Soares Da Costa / Siemens (Portugal / German)
Construcoes Technicas / Ballast Nedam / UK Airports Group (Portugal / Netherlands / UK)
SAE Cegelec (France / UK)
6. Kia Sun./ Kier (Macau / German)
There is british involvement in three of the bids, whose deadline has now been extended to the 24 March. The Ballast Nedam group, which includes subcontracts to Balfour Beatty worth approximately £15 million, has probably the largest UK content. In the Amec consortium, however, it is worth noting that both Engil and
Gammon are 50% UK owned.
from
Macau International Airport was originally planned to be ready for operations in 1994. CAM now admit publicly to a plan of mid 1995, and privately to a plan of by the end of 1995. MI AC has always said that it will take 40 months to complete the airport On that basis the the day that work on the runway starts. airport could be ready by the end of June 1995 if work started end now, and every week now lost takes completion closer to the of 1995. However MIAC' S calculation cannot be exact; the
of complications
the piling work are difficult to estimate exactly;
believes things can be speeded up: everyone that the window of
before opportunity lies
completion.
CAM
Chek
knows
Lap
Kok's
At the same time, Macau's CAA has been working at preliminary agreement with other countries (notably the USA) for the basis of Air Service Agreements. Macau has so far found the USA more demanding than it anticipated (and vice versa). Papers with Macau' s proposals
relations for aviation matters, and aviation with China, have been put forward at the Sino Lusitanian Joint Liaison Group (JLG) but without response so far. Talks with Hong Kong
Control and China will also need to be held on Air Traffic
These (ATC).
likely to be awkward, given the number of airports in the Pearl River Delta area on the one hand and national pride on the other.
are
Macau's first airport has been plagued with problems. It started with accusations of completion which brought down the last
Zhuhai. governor. It faced a rearguard obstructive campaign by
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