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Thursday, October 6, 1977
PWD ALARDS $3.7 14 COPTRACT FOR MUI WO PIŁK
The Public Works Department today awarded an $8.7 million
contract for the construction of a ferry pier at Mul Wo (Silvermine
Bay), Lantau Island, to Harbour engineering Co. Ltd.
The contract, which forms part of a programme to develop
Mui Wo into a rural township, was formally signed in the Sha Tin
Government Offices this morning.
Mr. Bosco Keown, senior engineer of P.W.D.'s New Territories
Development Branch, said that work on the new pier, which aims to
cope with the increasing number of visitors to Lantau Island, would
begin later this month and finish in about 18 months' time.
He said that facilities at the existing one-berth ferry
terminal at Mui Wo were inadequate to cope with the peak summer traffic
of 30,000 passengers a day.
"The new pier has been designed to cater for the largest
ferries and will be 78 metres long with two decks and berths on both
sides," kr. Keown said.
"A dolphin and Movable ramp will also be constructed on the
southern side of the pier to allow for the berthing of vehicular ferries."
The development of Hui Wo will move another step forward
tomorrow when the Public Works Department invites tenders for a
major engineering project.
The project comprises the formation of about four hectures
of land to be reclaimed from the sea to provide sites for a sewage
treatment plant, an abattoir, the second phase of a public housing
estate, a helipad and other government uses.
/. Beavell