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CONTROLS ON AIRCRAFT NOISE PLANNED
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UNDER LEGISLATION CURRENTLY BEING DRAFTED, ALL LOCALLY REGISTERED AIRCRAFT WOULD HAVE TO BE +NOISE CERTIFICATED TO MEET THE INTERNATIONAL NOISE LEVEL CRITERIA FROM NEXT JANUARY, THE DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION, MR TREVOR THORPE, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).
AND, PROBABLY, FROM JANUARY 1988, ANY AIRCRAFT EITHER LOCAL OR FOREIGN NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL NOISE CRITERIA WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO LAND OR TAKE OFF IN HONG KONG, MR THORPE TOLD THE PENINSULA ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON.
ANOTHER PIECE OF LEGISLATION THE GOVERNMENT WAS IMPLEMENTING CONCERNED THE CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS ON AIRCRAFT, MR THORPE SAID.
+WE ARE CURRENTLY INTRODUCING LEGISLATION TO ALLOW MY DEPARTMENT TO EXERCISE CONTROL OVER AIR FREIGHT FORWARDERS CONCERNING THE CARRIAGE OF CERTAIN TYPES OF DANGEROUS GOODS WITHIN AIRCRAFT.
+CIVIL AVIATION LEGISLATION, WITH SUCH A DYNAMIC AND HIGH TECHNOLOGICAL INDUSTRY AS AVIATION, MUST CONTINUALLY BE DEVELOPED,+ MR THORPE SAID.
TURNING TO DEVELOPMENTS AT KAI TAK AIRPORT, MR THORPE SAID STAGE V DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE COMPLETED BY EARLY 1988 AT A COST OF $273 MILLION.
A PROJECT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT IS A NEW TRANSPORT TERMINUS TO THE WEST OF THE TERMINAL BUILDING WHICH WILL BE OPENED WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.
THE TERMINUS WILL BE IN THE OLD OPEN AIR CAR PARK AND WILL ENABLE ARRIVING PASSENGERS TO BOARD TAXIS, HIRE CARS AND AIRPORT COACHES IN A BRIGHTER, CLEANER AND MORE PLEASANT ENVIRONMENT THAN CURRENTLY EXISTS ALONG THE ARRIVALS KERB OF THE TERMINAL BUILDING.
STAGE V DEVELOPMENT WILL INCREASE THE PASSENGER TERMINAL BUILDING CAPACITY FROM THE PRESENT 3 400 TO 5 300 PASSENGERS PER HOUR IN EACH DIRECTION.
+THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY EXTENDING THE EXISTING BUILDING BY A SIMPLE HORIZONTAL TWO-LEVEL EXTENSION TO THE EAST, HENCE INCREASING THE AREA AVAILABLE FOR PASSENGER PROCESSING BY ABOUT HALF AS MUCH AGAIN,+ MR THORPE SAID.
+PASSENGER THROUGHPUT PER YEAR IS EXPECTED IN THE ORDER OF 16 MILLION BY 1990, COMPARED WITH 9.6 MILLION LAST YEAR; WHILE THAT FOR CARGO WILL REACH 700 000 TONNES IN 1990, AGAINST LAST YEAR'S 417 000 TONNES,+ HE SAID.
/HE STRESSED