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Friday, July 13, 1973

AIRPORT APRON SERVICES COMPLEX

A combined new office and workshop complex is to be built at Hong

Kong international airport to meet the increasing demand for such facilities

by ground servicing companies.

The complex will consist of a three-storey building occupying

an area of about 110,000 square feet near the airport's maintenance area

on the castern bank of the nullah.

The ground floor will be taken up by workshops and storage areas

for heavy items of aircraft spares, and by open and covered parking spaces

for equipment and airport servicing vehicles.

Piling work is already in progress and construction of the building

is expected to start in September this year for completion in early 1975.

A spokesman for the Public Works Department said the complex would

provide better accommodation for the various services which had to be

performed on aircraft parked on the terminal apron.

These services included the provision of vehicles, equipment

and manpower for the handling of passengers, baggage, freight and mail,

as well as for cleaning, refurbishing, inspecting and repairing of aircraft.

When completed, the workshops and offices will be let to ground

servicing companies.

Note to Editors'

Photographs of a sketch of the building are boxed today.

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