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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1990

MONITORING AND

CO-ORDINATING

"A VERY COMPLEX STRUCTURE IS REQUIRED AS YOU CAN SEE, BUT EVERY SECTION AS EVERY ELEMENT OF THE PLAN AND PROGRAMME AS YOU WILL PLANNED ON A WORKABLE, PRACTICABLE BASIS.

AGREE

COMMITTEE

WELL

AS IS WELL

"THAT IS WHY WE HAVE ENGAGED THE AMERICAN FIRM OF INTERNATIONAL

ΤΟ A US$10 MILLION CONTRACT

TAKE OVER BECHTEL

THE FURTHER ON DEVELOPMENT OF THE MASTER PROGRAMME AND TO CO-ORDINATE AND MONITOR THE PROJECTS AS WORKS AND EXPENDITURE PROGRAMMES OF THE AIRPORT-RELATED OVERALL PROJECT MANAGERS.

ON PORT-RELATED DEVELOPMENT, MR KWOK SAID IT DEPENDED VERY MUCH ON THE MARKET DEMAND.

PACKAGES, AND

THE PORT DEVELOPMENT CONSISTED OF ROUGHLY FIVE THOUGH EACH WAS INDEPENDENT, THERE WAS SOME INTERFACED INFRASTRUCTURE.

BRIEFLY THE PACKAGES ARE:

HARBOUR, TSING YI/STONECUTTERS ISLAND (CONTAINER TERMINALS 8 AND 9),

(A)

(B)

TUEN MUN WEST AND TRANSHIPMENT CENTRE (AREA 38),

(C)

NORTH LANTAU PORT PENINSULA,

(D)

NORTH OF

DEVELOPMENT OF TUNG CHUNG THE AIRPORT INTERFACED WITH THE NEW AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT,

ΤΟ BE

(E)

BREAKWATERS OF A

LONG MAIN BREAKWATER

CONSTRUCTION

AND

NEW TYPHOON

THIS PACKAGE WOULD INVOLVE THE

THREE-MILE SHELTERS IN THE WESTERN HARBOUR, AS WELL AS IMPROVEMENT TO THE SHIPPING CHANNELS.

PROPOSALS FOR BY THE NEW

HE POINTED OUT THAT THERE WERE ALSO SOME BROAD PORT FACILITIES AT KWUN TONG WHEN KAI TAK IS RELEASED AIRPORT AND AT JUNK BAY SUPPORTED BY THE NEW TOWN TO THE NORTH.

ON

KWOK QUOTED THE BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR, MR PARTICIPATION CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, AS HAVING SAID: "BECAUSE OUR ECONOMY IS COMPLETELY OPEN, WE HAVE ALWAYS WELCOMED PARTICIPATION BY COMPANIES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IN OUR DEVELOPMENT.

"INDEED

BEEN BUILT BY COMPANIES FROM JAPAN, EUROPE, USA AND

THE

THE PORT

MANY OF

OUR EXISTING

HAVE BUILT DEVELOPMENT WILL BE THE BIGGEST YET.

BIG PROJECTS

IN

PAST BUT

HAVE INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS

AUSTRALIA. WE AND AIRPORT

/"NOT ALL