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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1993

T

RUNNING FROM

THE HPP COMPRISED A DEEP TUNNEL SEWERAGE SYSTEM HONG KONG ISLAND EAST TO TSEUNG KWAN O AND TSUEN WAN, WITH TREATMENT WORKS ON STONECUTTERS PLUS IMPROVEMENTS TO ASSOCIATED NETWORKS.

LOCAL SEWAGE

THE ONGOING SEWAGE IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES COMPRISED MORE THAN SCHEMES FUNDED UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME.

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HK'S CONTAINER THROUGHPUT INCREASES

* * * * *

SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES OVER DIRECTOR OF MARINE, MR IAN DALE, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

THE AVERAGE OVERALL GROWTH

RATE OF

KONG'S CONTAINER THROUGHPUT FOR THE FIRST OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF

LAST YEAR

THE

INDICATES A

TO PERIOD MARCH

PER 17.1

CENT IN HONG SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR

LEVELLING OFF

OF JUNE, THE DEPUTY

THROUGHPUT

FIGURES,

MR

DALE UNITS)

THE

ANNOUNCING THE LATEST CONTAINER SAID HONG KONG HANDLED 4,177,908 TEUS (TWENTY-FOOT ENQUIVALENT

OVER COMPARED TO 3,567,664 IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

KWAI CHUNG TERMINALS SHOWED

AN INCREASE OF 13.1 PER

STREAM HANDLING 17.5 PER CENT, AND THE RIVER TRADE 68.3 PER CENT.

HANDLING COMMENTING ON HONG KONG'S FUTURE CONTAINER

GROWTH RATES "ACTUAL

MR DALE SAID:

UNDERLINED WHICH

THE FORECASTS, DEVELOPMENT TO PROCEED ON SCHEDULE.

CENT,

CAPACITY,

WERE GENERALLY

IN LINE WITH NEED FOR OUR PLANNED TERMINAL

"

ITS TERMINAL 8 CONSTRUCTION IS WELL WITHIN THAT SCHEDULE, WITH

OPERATION, BUT ANY FURTHER DELAYS ΤΟ THE FIRST BERTH ALREADY IN

WELL BE A DISADVANTAGE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME FOR TERMINAL 9, FOR THE PORT'S FUTURE, HE ADDED.

COULD

ΤΟ POTENTIAL

ABSORB THE SIZE THE

OF AVAILABILITY IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT

CONTAINER HANDLING IN THE STREAM HAS THE SOME SHORTFALL IN TERMINAL CAPACITY, BUT THIS IS LIMITED BY

CAN

AND UTILISE THIS SYSTEM, OF VESSEL THAT WATERFRONT LAND TO HANDLE CONTAINER LIGHTERS. THE TERMINAL 9 PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY, HE SAID.

THE FOLLOWING

IS THE

TABLE FOR THE

COMPARATIVE

STATISTICS IN TEUS:

/FIRST SIX

CONTAINER