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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1993
T
RUNNING FROM
THE HPP COMPRISED A DEEP TUNNEL SEWERAGE SYSTEM HONG KONG ISLAND EAST TO TSEUNG KWAN O AND TSUEN WAN, WITH TREATMENT WORKS ON STONECUTTERS PLUS IMPROVEMENTS TO ASSOCIATED NETWORKS.
LOCAL SEWAGE
THE ONGOING SEWAGE IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES COMPRISED MORE THAN SCHEMES FUNDED UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME.
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HK'S CONTAINER THROUGHPUT INCREASES
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SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES OVER DIRECTOR OF MARINE, MR IAN DALE, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
THE AVERAGE OVERALL GROWTH
RATE OF
KONG'S CONTAINER THROUGHPUT FOR THE FIRST OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF
LAST YEAR
THE
INDICATES A
TO PERIOD MARCH
PER 17.1
CENT IN HONG SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR
LEVELLING OFF
OF JUNE, THE DEPUTY
THROUGHPUT
FIGURES,
MR
DALE UNITS)
THE
ANNOUNCING THE LATEST CONTAINER SAID HONG KONG HANDLED 4,177,908 TEUS (TWENTY-FOOT ENQUIVALENT
OVER COMPARED TO 3,567,664 IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
KWAI CHUNG TERMINALS SHOWED
AN INCREASE OF 13.1 PER
STREAM HANDLING 17.5 PER CENT, AND THE RIVER TRADE 68.3 PER CENT.
HANDLING COMMENTING ON HONG KONG'S FUTURE CONTAINER
GROWTH RATES "ACTUAL
MR DALE SAID:
UNDERLINED WHICH
THE FORECASTS, DEVELOPMENT TO PROCEED ON SCHEDULE.
CENT,
CAPACITY,
WERE GENERALLY
IN LINE WITH NEED FOR OUR PLANNED TERMINAL
"
ITS TERMINAL 8 CONSTRUCTION IS WELL WITHIN THAT SCHEDULE, WITH
OPERATION, BUT ANY FURTHER DELAYS ΤΟ THE FIRST BERTH ALREADY IN
WELL BE A DISADVANTAGE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME FOR TERMINAL 9, FOR THE PORT'S FUTURE, HE ADDED.
COULD
ΤΟ POTENTIAL
ABSORB THE SIZE THE
OF AVAILABILITY IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT
CONTAINER HANDLING IN THE STREAM HAS THE SOME SHORTFALL IN TERMINAL CAPACITY, BUT THIS IS LIMITED BY
CAN
AND UTILISE THIS SYSTEM, OF VESSEL THAT WATERFRONT LAND TO HANDLE CONTAINER LIGHTERS. THE TERMINAL 9 PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY, HE SAID.
THE FOLLOWING
IS THE
TABLE FOR THE
COMPARATIVE
STATISTICS IN TEUS:
/FIRST SIX
CONTAINER