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MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1992

CROSSING, THE THIRD VEHICULAR

THE WILL LINK

PROPOSED

HARBOUR KOWLOON

THE WESTERN HARBOUR

TERRITORY, THE

WEST CROSSING IN RECLAMATION AND THE EXISTING WESTERN RECLAMATION AT SAI YING PUN.

CONSIDERATION IS BEING GIVEN TO THE POSSIBLE

THE PROJECT.

PRIVATISATION OF

32 OF

KILOMETRES FROM

THE AIRPORT RAILWAY COVERS A DISTANCE THE NEW AIRPORT TO THE CENTRAL AND WAN CHAI RECLAMATION.

THIS HIGH-SPEED LINK,

THE AIRPORT EXPRESS, IS ATTRACT A HIGH LEVEL OF AIRPORT PASSENGERS,

DESIGNED TO

CENTRAL AND THE WEST

TWO MAIN STATIONS ARE ALSO PLANNED FOR KOWLOON RECLAMATION WITH A THIRD SMALLER STATION IN TSING YI.

IN PARALLEL WITH

THIS

THE LANTAU LINE

J

HIGH-SPEED LINK WILL BE ON THE SAME

TO ROUTE SERVICE SUPPORT COMMUNITY IN TUNG CHUNG.

THE

A DOMESTIC NEW AIRPORT

TRANSIT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MASS

RAILWAY CORPORATION ARE AN NEGOTIATING FOR

FOR AGREEMENT CURRENTLY

THE CORPORATION TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE BOTH SERVICES OF THE RAILWAY. IT IS THAT AN AGREEMENT WILL BE CONCLUDED BY MID THIS YEAR.

ANTICIPATED

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HK'S ANNUAL CONTAINER THROUGHPUT EXCEEDS SIX MILLION TEUS

ANNUAL CONTAINER

FOR THE FIRST TIME, HONG KONG'S

THROUGHPUT HAS PASSED SIX MILLION TEUS (20-FOOT EQUIVALENT UNITS) AND THE ANNUAL OF TOTAL CARGO THROUGHPUT HAS TOPPED 100 MILLION TONNES, THE DIRECTOR MARINE, MR TONY MILLER, ANNOUNCED TODAY (MONDAY).

BY THE MARINE DEPARTMENT SHOW PROVISIONAL FIGURES RELEASED

AN THAT THE PORT OF HONG KONG HANDLED SOME 6.2 MILLION TEUS IN 1991 - INCREASE OF ABOUT 21 PER CENT COMPARED WITH 5.1 MILLION TEUS IN 1990.

SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES. THE MR MILLER SAID: "THESE ARE TWO

THEY EXCEED THE CONTAINER THROUGHPUT FIGURES ARE MOST SATISFACTORY.

PROVISION FIVE-YEAR TREND GROWTH RATE OF 14 PER CENT USED IN PLANNING

HONG KONG'S POSITION AS OF CONTAINER TERMINALS, AND THEY REINFORCE ONE OF THE BUSIEST CONTAINER PORTS IN THE WORLD.

"THE

IN GROWTH

OVERALL

ENCOURAGING.

CARGO THROUGHPUT

IS

ALSO

VERY

HANDLED

THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES SHOW THAT HONG KONG MILLION TONNES OF CARGO IN 1991. THIS REPRESENTS AN INCREASE 17 PER CENT COMPARED WITH 89 MILLION TONNES IN 1990.

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