3/
There is also strong British interest in the formation of the platform on which the Airport will be built. This is a massive job, worth about £1 billion, involving excavation of 180 million cubic metres of rock from Chek Lap Kok and sand which will be placed on the sea bed to the north of Lantau Island, 100 million cubic metres of silt having been dredged from the sea bed prior to this operation. Tenders are to be issued later this year. Trafalgar House and Costain have formed a joint venture for this contract with Ballast Nedam
Dredging (a Dutch company owned by British Aerospace), the Hong Kong arm of Nishimatsu Construction of Japan, Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company of the USA, Jan de Nul of Belgium, and China Harbour Engineering of the PRC (the last two both dredging companies). This grouping is considered to be a powerful one but it is not the only one involving British interests.
Balfour Beatty are participating in another consortium and Mowlem in yet
another.
Trafalgar House has a permanent presence in Hong Kong through Gammon Construction, of which it owns 50%. The other 50% is owned by Jardine Pacific. Gammon is Hong Kong's leading civil engineering and building contractor and expects to be extensively involved in the Airport Project. Gammon does not however have the particular experience necessary for either the suspension bridge or the platform. Gammon, in joint venture with Nishimatsu Construction of Japan, recently completed the construction of the Tate's Cairn Tunnel in Hong Kong. The Tunnel opened earlier this year. Trafalgar House is a shareholder in the company operating it under a franchise from the Hong Kong Government.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.