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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1990

MR LAM SAID THE "PREQUALIFICATION" EXERCISE IN SELECTING TENDERERS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LANTAU FIXED CROSSING WOULD BEGIN SHORTLY.

THE PROJECT WOULD BE SPLIT INTO A NUMBER OF SELF CONTAINED CONTRACTS

OR

COULD INTERNATIONAL, 80 THAT INTERESTED PARTIES, WHETHER LOCAL TENDER FOR THE CONTRACTS IN THE FIELD BEST SUITED TO THEIR AND ABILITY.

EXPERTISE

INTEGRAL

MR LAM DESCRIBED THE TRANSPORT LINKS IN PLACE FOR PADS AS AN PART OF THE OVERALL STRATEGY TO MEET HONG KONG'S NEEDS IN THE NEXT TO 20 YEARS.

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HE ADDED THAT THE GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO RECEIVE THE CONSULTANTS FINAL AIRPORT BY THE END OF THE YEAR ON QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE REPORTS

ALIGNMENT, HOW RAILWAY, THESE QUESTIONS INCLUDED WHAT IS THE BEST SOON THE RAILWAY IS REQUIRED, AND WHAT SHOULD BE.

THE FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS

HIGHLIGHTED THE

THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, MRS ANSON CHAN, IMPORTANCE TO HONG KONG OF A REPLACEMENT AIRPORT.

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A 'THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT A CONSTRAINED AIRPORT WOULD SEVERELY LIMIT OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND MAKE HONG KONG INCREASINGLY LESS ATTRACTIVE AS MAJOR CENTRE FOR TRADE, FINANCE AND COMMERCE.

"KAI TAK IS ALREADY THE SIXTH BUSIEST AIRPORT IN THE WORLD IN TERMS OF TERMS OF IN BUSIEST FOURTH AND THE INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS

ANY AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL

IT IS SIGNIFICANTLY BUSIER THAN ANYWHERE IN CHINA.

FREIGHT.

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CONTINUED IN PASSENGER AND AS

THAT IF DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH SHE SAID AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS, CAPACITY AT KAI TAK WOULD BE REACHED AS EARLY 1993.

NEW

AIRPORTS

AT

MACAU COMPETITION FROM OF ON THE QUESTION

ATTRACT SHENZHEN, MRS CHAN SAID THAT MACAU WAS NOT EXPECTED TO SIGNIFICANT VOLUME OF TRAFFIC FROM AN AVIATION HUB LIKE HONG KONG.

HOWEVER, SHENZHEN WOULD POTENTIALLY FULFIL A HELPFUL ROLE IN PRESSURE ON KAI TAK PRIOR TO CHEK LAP KOK COMING ON STREAM.

AND

ANY

RELIEVING

It

MRS CHAN SAID.

кок, MACAU AND "IN THE LONGER TERM, WE SEE THE ROLES OF CHEK LAP

TO ALL THREE ARE NEEDED SHENZHEN AIRPORTS AS LARGELY COMPLEMENTARY.

RIVER DELTA AND THE DYNAMIC AREA OF THE PEARL SERVICE ADEQUATELY SOUTHERN CHINA GENERALLY,

BARNES,

OF

THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR GRAHAM MENTIONED SOME OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS FOLLOWING THE OPENING THE NEW AIRPORT AT CHEK LAP KOK.

AIRCRAFT ROARING CHATHAM

"ALMOST UNBELIEVABLY ON THAT DAY THERE WILL BE NO OVER KOWLOON TONG AND SHAM SHUI PO AND MUCH OF THE TRAFFIC ON ROAD FLYOVER AND AROUND THE KOWLOON CITY ROUNDABOUT WILL BE GONE.

/"THIS WILL