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SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1987

ANY

DECISION

IS TAKEN TO GO AHEAD WITH THE "BUT BEFORE

OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AIRPORT AT THAT SITE, A FURTHER EVALUATION

DETAILED EVALUATION, TAKING SITE IS NOW UNDERWAY, AND THAT WILL BE A

ENVIRONMENT, INTO CONSIDERATION ALL POSSIBLE ASPECTS OF THE SITE, THE THE FLIGHT PATH AND SO ON,

SIR DAVID SAID THE

HE ADDED.

AUTHORITIES CHINESE

ALSO CONFIRMED THAT MIRS THERE WAS A PLAN TO BUILD A SMALL PORT IN THE EAST IN YANTIAN IN

TONNES то BERTH, BAY TO ENABLE SHIPS BETWEEN THREE TO FIVE THOUSAND

MATERIALS AND OF CONSTRUCTION

FOR THE MAINLY FOR THE IMPORTATION LONGER-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA.

NEW AIRPORT ASKED IF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT'S DECISION ON A

AN AIRPORT IN SHENZHEN, SIR DAVID WOURD AFFECT THE CHINESE PLAN FOR SAID HE DID NOT THINK SO BECAUSE THE SHENZHEN AIRPORT WAS DESIGNED BE A DOMESTIC ONE.

TO

OF

"THE AUTHORITIES IN CHINA POINTED OUT TO US THAT THE AMOUNT

THE CAPITAL, PEKING, PASSENGERS TRAVELLING BETWEEN SHENZHEN NOW AND

VERY GREAT. THIS WOULD BE A AND OTHER CITIES IN CHINA IS ALREADY

ALREADY DOMESTIC AIRPORT TO CATER FOR AND COPE WITH THAT DEMAND WHICH EXISTS," HE SAID.

KONG'S PLAN

ON WHETHER THE SHENZHEN AIRPORT WOULD AFFECT HONG FOR AN AIRPORT, SIR DAVID SAID CLEARLY IT WOULD HAVE TO BE TAKEN CONSIDERATION.

INTO

IS

"BUT IF IT IS, AS IS REPORTED TO BE, A DOMESTIC AIRPORT, IT

THAT KONG

WE HAVE OUR OWN INTERNATIONAL VERY IMPORTANT FOR HONG AIRPORT. AND WE ARE PLANNING AND PROCESSING ON THAT BASIS A FULLY INTERNATIONAL FIRST-CLASS AIRPORT IN HONG KONG,

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OF KEEPING HE SAID.

HONG ASKED IF THE DECISION ON THE SHENZHEN AIRPORT WOULD DELAY

THE SHENZHEN KONG'S PLAN FOR THE AIRPORT, SIR DAVID SAID IT MIGHT IF AIRPORT WOULD SIPHON OFF SOME OF THE TRAFFIC FROM KAI TAK.

THE LIFE OF KAI TAK ΤΟ BE "THEN IT MIGHT POSSIBLY ENABLE

KNOW AND EXTENDED, BUT THAT SORT OF DATA IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO PUT INTO OUR PLANNING PROCESS."

WAS GOING TO SIPHON ON THE LIKELIHOOD THAT SHENZHEN AIRPORT

WAS OFF SOME OF THE PASSENGER TRAFFIC FROM KAI TAK, SIR DAVID SAID IT DIFFICULT TO SAY AT THIS STAGE.

DATA

TOLD THAT

ASKED IF THE CHINESE OFFICIALS HAD GIVEN HIM ANY SPECIFIC IN TERMS OF THEIR GROWTH PROJECTION, SIR DAVID SAID HE WAS IT WAS SOMETHING IN THE ORDER OF NINE PER CENT.

"BUT THAT'S A VERY APPROXIMATE FIGURE, FROM 63 MILLION PEOPLE. IT'S NOT NINE PER CENT

NINE PER CENT GROWTH GROWTI ON THE HONG

THAT FOR REPRESENTS A

KONG FIGURE. IT'S NINE PER CENT GROWTH ON THEIR FIGURE, AND

HONG KONG,

HONG KONG, IN TERMS OF THROUGH-PUT THROUGH

中

VERY LARGE FIGURE INDEED, HE SAID.

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