Previous page: Hong Kong's new international airport takes shape - transforming the 302-hectare island of Chek Lap Kok into a 1 248-hectare platform designed to service the world's airline traffic.
Below: The 2.2-kilometre Tsing Ma Bridge will link the islands of Ma Wan and Tsing Yi and carry road and rail traffic to, and from. the new airport. Right: Around 160 000 kilometres of wire will be used in the two- suspension cables of the Tsing Ma Bridge — enough to circle the Earth four times.
Opposite page: Part of a 500-tonne cable 'saddle' is hoisted to the summit of one of the suspension bridge towers, around 200
metres up.
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