MACAU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
The history of aviation in Macau so far consists of a few seaplane flights before the war and a Taiwanese owned microlite strip now.
China In the Joint Declaration between Portugal and on the future of Macau there is no mention of aviation at all.
draw Macau therefore had no experience of its own from which to for the construction and management of an airport.
An international airport was first considered in Macau in 1980, and approval
later was
given in principal by the Chinese government. In 1988 the Macau government announced their airport plan. Statistics in the feasibility study claimed the airport should handle 2 million passengers and 150,000 tonnes of cargo in the first year of operation, and three times as much by 1999. would
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also act as an entry and exit point for Zhuhai as well Macau. Passengers and cargo would travel by a second bridge from Taipa Island directly to the border gate to China.
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Worked started in 1989 on 40 hectares of reclamation first phase of terminal buildings and apron. Sand was imported from Zhuhai for this. Macau government experienced problems with work during 1989-90, caused by Zhuhai's municipal government, who had very much hoped for an international airport of their own on not far west of Macau. A CAAC feasibility study had been approved for this, but was overruled by central
(Zhao
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Zhiyang) support for Macau's airport. problems raised by Zhuhai were firstly the contract for sand deliveries and secondly environmental pollution (noise of aircraft landings and take-off) over Zhuhai. Both of problems were resolved in 1990.
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The airport is being designed, built and operated by the Airport Company (CAM). It is a private company with a 25 franchise (and a 10 year renewal clause) whose shareholders the Macau Government, STDM (Stanley Ho and Henry Fok's Macau
Macau which has the gambling franchise), investors (Edmund Ho and Ng Fok) and Interfina (Portugese but largely Stanley Ho owned). CAM has appointed Macau International Airport Consortium (MIAC) as the contractor for the design of the airport. MIAC consists largely of a project team on secondment from British Airport Services Limited (BASL).
MIAC designs are
in turn approved by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which has taken over the work formally done by the Macau Government Airport Cabinet (GAIM). The CAA is advised by a consultant from Aeroport de Paris.
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The final design by MIAC has been approved and will consist of a 3, 400 metre
16 runway with Cat 2 navaids and lights,
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apron and 4 loading bridges in the passenger terminal. There will also be a cargo terminal, a multi storey car park and an aircraft maintenance area large enough to handle B747-400 aircraft. The design of the 50,000 square metre- passenger terminal is unusually complicated because of separate immigration and customs at both departure and arrival points for
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