ROYAL
VISIT
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PRESS
RELEASE
Sunday, April 20, 1975
CONTAINERISATION IN HONG KONG
Queen Will See Asia's Largest Handling Complex At Kwai Chung
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will see the largest and
most modern container handling complex in Asia now two-thirds completed
in Hong Kong when they pass through the Kwai Chung Container Terminal
on Tuesday, May 6.
The Queen and the Duke will be attending separate engagements
in the New Territories earlier in the morning, but both will meet at
Kwai Chung before embarking on the Lady Maurine and sailing to the
Ocean Terminal where a reception will be held in their honour.
There are already three container berths at Kwai Chung, and
40 per cent of all cargo coming into Hong Kong is containerised,
But since this percentage gives every indication of rapidly
increasing, some of Hong Kong's best-known and oldest commercial
organisations have combined to create two companies with multimillion
dollar resources for transforming the Kwai Chung site into a giant
complex capable of coping with the demands of tomorrow,
One company is the Hong Kong International Terminals Limited,
formed by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company Limited and the China
Provident Company Limited to develop a 43-acre site at a cost of $360
million.
The Royal