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"The Highways Department will be liaising closely with the contractor, the Marine Department and the Marine Police to minimise the impact on marine traffic," he said.
When completed, the Kap Shui Mun bridge will be 820 metres long with a main span stretching 430 metres across the channel between Lantau and Ma Wan. It will be Hong Kong's first cable-stayed road bridge with the world's longest span carrying both road and rail traffic.
The double-decked bridge will carry six lanes of expressway on the upper deck and two rail tracks and two single traffic lanes on the enclosed lower deck for use in bad weather.
Together with the 2.2 kilometre long Tsing Ma suspension bridge, it will form part of the Lantau Fixed Crossing on the 34 kilometre long highway network of the Airport Core Programme linking the new airport at Chek Lap Kok and the Tung Chung new town to urban Kowloon and Hong Kong.
The Kap Shui Mun Bridge and the viaduct on Ma Wan are being built by the Kumagai-Maeda-Yokogawa-Hitachi Joint Venture under a $1.6 billion design and construct contract awarded by the Highways Department in November 1992.
The bridge is on schedule for completion in May 1997.
End/Tuesday, May 9, 1995
Volume and price movements of external trade in February
In the first two months of 1995, the volume of re-exports increased by 19% over the same period last year, while the volume of domestic exports increased by 12%, according to the statistics released today by the Census and Statistics Department.
Taking re-exports and domestic exports together, the volume of total exports increased by 18%. Meanwhile, imports increased by 22% in volume.
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