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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1990

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY PURCHASE COPIES OF THE SURVEY

PUBLICATIONS FROM

CENTRE, GENERAL POST THE GOVERNMENT

FROM THE PUBLICATIONS BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AND COUNTER OF THE CENSUS AND

19TH DEPARTMENT, STATISTICS WANCHAI TOWER 1, 12 HARBOUR ROAD, WAN CHAI, AT $5.50 PER COPY.

FURTHER

DETAILS

OBTAINED

FROM THE

THE

REPORT OFFICE

SALES

FLOOR,

BE SURVEY BUSINESS

MAY OF THE CENSUS AND

OF

QUARTERLY INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH SECTION STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ON TEL. 839 3223.

$203M PORT AND AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT SIGNED

PORT AND THE FIRST WORKS CONTRACT IN RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT WAS AWARDED BY THE GOVERNMENT TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE 20-MONTH CONTRACT, WORTH $203 MILLION, IS FOR THE OF YAU MA TEI ANCHORAGE AND KELLETT BANK. IT HAS BEEN AWARDED CHINA HARBOURS ENGINEERING COMPANY.

"THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD IN

ACTING DEVELOPMENT,

**

THE

AIRPORT SERVICES, MR SIU CHUEN, SAID.

DIRECTOR

"WE ARE NOW MOVING VERY DEFINITELY WORK AFTER MANY YEARS OF PLANNING.

DREDGING

AIRPORT

DREDGING TO THE

HONG KONG'S PORT AND OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

INTO THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL

OF ABOUT 240 THE EXISTING

MR SIU SAID THIS PROJECT COMPRISED TWO MAJOR PORTIONS OF WORK.

WITHIN AN AREA THE FIRST PORTION INVOLVED HECTARES OF SEABED AT YAU MA TEI ANCHORAGE AND LOWERING SEABED FROM SIX METRES TO EIGHT METRES BELOW CHART DATUM.

THE

MARINE ACCESS FOR "THE PROJECT AIMS TO PROVIDE A REPLACEMENT USERS ALONG THE COASTLINE OF CHEUNG SHA WAN AND SHAM SHUI PO WHEN EXISTING MARINE ACCESS NORTH OF STONECUTTERS ISLAND IS CUT OFF BY

MR SIU SAID. CONTAINER TERMINAL NO. 8 DEVELOPMENT,

THE

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AREA OF ABOUT THE SECOND PORTION INVOLVES DREDGING WITHIN AN

AND LOWERING THE EXISTING KELLETT BANK 270 HECTARES OF SEABED AT

BELOW CHART DATUM SEABED FROM ABOUT SEVEN METRES TO 11.5 METRES

SITE FOR

MOORING NINE MARINE PROVIDE A REPLACEMENT DISPLACED BY THE CONTAINER TERMINAL NO. 8 DEVELOPMENT AND SIX BY KOWLOON RECLAMATION.

BUOYS, THREE WEST

MR SIU ADDED THAT IT WAS CUBIC METRES AND 13 MILLION DREDGED AND REMOVED RESPECTIVELY.

CUBIC FROM YAU MA

THAT ESTIMATED

OF METRES TEI ANCHORAGE

ABOUT FOUR MILLION

MUD

BE MARINE

AND KELLETT BANK

WOULD

WILL "THE MARINE MUD GROUNDS, ONE AT SOUTH NINEPINS, HE SAID.

"

OF

DISPOSED BE

CHAU CHEUNG

AND

OF AT TWO

THE OTHER

MARINE

AT

EAST

SPOIL OF

THE WORKS WILL COMMENCE EARLY NEXT MONTH AND

BE

COMPLETED IN

MID 1992.

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