PRD Container Terminals Upriver, Downriver or Lantau

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PRD Container Terminals Upriver, Downriver or
Lantau

• Date 27 February, 2004
• Speaker Mr. Alan Y. Lee,
• Hong Kong Container Terminal
  Operators Association Chairman

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Port Development Options

• South West Tsing Yi
• North West Lantau
• Increase Competitiveness
• Increase Capacity

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Port Development Options
South West Tsing Yi
North West Lantau
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South West Tsing Yi

• Key Characteristics
• Industrial nature
• Oil terminals re-provisioning
• Synergy with existing port facilities
• Reclamation (107 ha.)
• Closer to Central harbour
• Limited expansion opportunities
• Visual impact - Disney Theme Park

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North West Lantau

• Key Characteristics
• Rural Nature
• Reclamation (315 ha.)
• Capacity to 2030
• Split port operation
• Dependent on HK-Z-M bridge
• or North Lantau Expressway
• Generate ecological impacts
• - loss of dolphin habitat

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Increase Competitiveness

• Increase road capacity
• Reduction in trucking cycle times
• Improve barge service
• Improve electronic support
• Equalize THC and ORC
• Productivity improvement
• Better utilization of annexed back-up land

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Increase Capacity

• Container terminals handled 12M teus in 2003
• Current 24 berth facility could handle 19.2M teus
• There is excess capacity
• New container terminals needed in 2012
• Terminal 10 or 11 are not the only option
• Cheaper way to increase new capacity by current
• terminal operators through
• - Productivity improvement
• - Better utilization of annexed back-up land
• - One Port
• Terminal 10 or 11 in Lantau will create
  inefficient split port operations

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