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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1988
MASSIVE INVESTMENT IN PORT SERVICES: GOVERNOR
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THE ENORMOUS GROWTH IN VESSEL MOVEMENTS AND THROUGHPUT OF THE PORT OF HONG KONG CREATES AN URGENT NEED FOR ADDITIONAL SERVICES, AND THERE HAS BEEN MASSIVE INVESTMENT IN THE PORT AND ITS FUTURE FROM BOTH THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
"IN 1987 WE BROKE THREE SEPARATE RECORDS: WE HAD ALMOST 205,000 VESSEL MOVEMENTS IN AND OUT, OVER 15,000 OF THESE WERE OCEAN GOING CARGO SHIPS, AND WE BECAME THE WORLD'S BUSIEST CONTAINER PORT WITH AN ANNUAL THROUGHPUT OF NEARLY THREE-AND-A-HALF MILLION TWENTY-FOOT EQUIVALENT UNITS, HE SAID.
ADDRESSING THE 1988 SEATRADE CONFERENCE, A BIENNIAL EVENT BEING HELD IN HONG KONG FOR THE SEVENTH TIME, SIR DAVID SAID THAT THE NEW TERMINAL 6 AT KWAI CHUNG WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, WITH ITS FIRST BERTH ALREADY OPERATIONAL AND FULL COMPLETION SCHEDULED FOR MID-1989.
HE NOTED THAT THE TENDER FOR THE ADJACENT TERMINAL 7 WAS AWARDED IN APRIL THIS YEAR, AND COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT WAS EXPECTED IN 1993.
"WHEN FULLY OPERATIONAL, THESE TWO FACILITIES DOUBLE HONG KONG'S PRESENT CONTAINER HANDLING CAPACITY
WILL ROUGHLY HE SAID.
THEN BE FULLY BE BUILT
BUT IT WOULD ALSO MEAN THAT KWAI CHUNG WOULD DEVELOPED. FUTURE CONTAINER TERMINALS WOULD NEED TO ELSEWHERE.
SIR DAVID SAID THE SITING OF FUTURE TERMINALS AND PORT FACILITIES WAS ONE OF SEVERAL MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS BEING CONSIDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT IN ITS CURRENT PORT AND AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT STUDY.
"THE DECISIONS WHICH WILL BE TAKEN AS A RESULT OF THIS STUDY WILL BE AIMED AT PROVIDING HONG KONG WITH AN ADEQUATE AND COST EFFECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH WILL MEET OUR NEEDS ΤΟ THE YEAR 2011 AND BEYOND THAT," THE GOVERNOR SAID.
SIR DAVID ALSO MENTIONED THAT IMPORTANT IN A PORT AS BUSY AS HONG KONG'S.
SAFETY WAS
PARTICULARLY
A NEW AND ADVANCED VESSEL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WAS BEING INSTALLED IN THE MACAU FERRY TERMINAL BUILDING, HE SAID.
"THIS WILL INCLUDE COMPUTER AND RADAR-BASED DISPLAYS TRAFFIC SO THAT CONTROLLING STAFF CAN MONITOR AND DIRECT THE OF ALL VESSELS, BOTH IN THE PORT APPROACHES AND WITHIN ITSELF.
NOW
OF PORT MOVEMENT THE PORT
"THIS SHOULD
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