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Attention News Editors:

The Airport Consultative Committee will hold its plenary meeting at 2.30 pm on January 16 (Monday) at the Conference Hall, 1st floor, Central Government Offices Main Wing (new annexe), Lower Albert Road, Central, to discuss the proposed additional advance for the PAA. You are invited to cover the meeting.

End/Thursday, January 12, 1995

Chief Secretary visits Singapore

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The Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan, will leave at 11 am tomorrow (Friday) on a five-day visit to Singapore during which she will name a new floating dock and address the Singapore Civil Service College.

The 290-metre long dock, built by Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd for Hongkong United Dockyards Ltd, will be named United on Saturday. It is 58 metres across with an operational width of 40 metres, can lift 40,000 tonnes and will be towed to Hong Kong soon after the naming ceremony.

The HK$350 million structure has been designed for the latest generation of container ships but can handle other types as well. It is Hong Kong's largest floating dock and the biggest to be built in the world for many years. It will initially be moored off Yam O Wan, North Lantau and is due to come into service by April.

Hongkong United Dockyards, which had its origins in Whampoa in 1846, is owned 50:50 by the Swire and Hutchison groups and has been operating in Hong Kong for about 140 years. Dockyards were Hong Kong's major industry until World War II.

Mrs Chan will call on Professor S Jayakumar, who holds two portfolios as Singapore's Minister for Law and Minister for Foreign Affairs, on Monday morning before attending a lunch hosted by the Singapore Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Yeo Cheow Tong.