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The Royal visitors will see workmen engaged on completing the
company's first of three huge berths. This will handle with ease the
world's biggest container ships in the latter part of the year, with the
whole project fully operational in 1976.
Hong Kong International Terminals' wharves are being designed
initially to serve container carriers with a total capacity of 300,000 containers annually, increasing in time to 500,000,
Container ships running between Hong Kong, Europe and the United
States will use the terminal, but later the Australian and African routes
will be added.
The other company developing Kwai Chung is a joint venture
between Kowloon Wharf - a long-established dockyard - and Modern Terminals
Limited. Together they are spending $224 million on à quay 1,130 ft. Long,
with a 420 ft. finger pier permitting berthing on both sides.
The quay is incorporating a roll-on, roll-off facility. Modern
construction techniques are being applied to such good effect that the
first container ships will be alongside the new berth later this year.
Mr. Derek Lygo, managing director of Modern Terminals, saya that
Kwai Chung and its facilities provide "positive proof of the partners' confidence in Hong Kong's economic stability and potential growth."