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Tenders to operate new ferry routes invited

The Transport Department is inviting interested parties to apply for licences to operate one or both of the two new ferry services to Central.

The new routes offered for tender included ferry services between Tsuen Wan (Tsing Lung Tau) and Central (Queen's Pier) and between Lamma Island (Pak Kok Tsuen) and Central (Queen's Pier).

A notice on the invitation was published in the Government Gazette today (Friday).

Tender documents and further particulars can be obtained during office hours from the following offices of the department:

Ferry and Paratransit Branch, 40th Floor, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Hong Kong; and

New Territories Regional Office, seventh Floor, Mongkok Government Offices, 30 Luen Wan Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon.

Sealed tenders should be submitted in duplicate and addressed to the Chairman of the Central Tender Board.

All applications should be placed in the Government Secretariat tender box at the lift lobby of the lower ground floor of Central Government Offices, East Wing, Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong, on or before noon on August 30.

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Late submissions will not be accepted.

Dangerous roof-top structures to be removed

The Buildings Department announced today (Friday) that the unauthorised roof-top structures at No 69-71 Chung On Street, Tsuen Wan, will be closed for demolition early next year.

A notice of intention was issued to the owners of the building this morning informing them that a Closure Order would be applied from the Hong Kong District Court on February 26 next year.

The department's Chief Building Surveyor (Control and Enforcement), Mr Tong Kam-man, said the illegal structures, constructed of timber, metal sheets or bricks, were in a dilapidated condition.

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