Hong Kong government considers moving trade terminal to make way for new town
- Residential settlement on land including existing site of River Trade Terminal would be on scale of other new towns, says minister
- Freight boss warns against move and district councillors express concern over infrastructure impact in Tuen Mun
Hong Kong’s government is looking at relocating the city’s 65-hectare River Trade Terminal to make way for a major new town in the northwest of the city, the development minister has said.
Under the vision, half of that land would be for the new town and the other half would serve as an alternative site for the container port and other transferred industry.
Explaining the long-term plan on a radio programme on Monday, Secretary for Development Michael Wong Wai-lun, believed the coastal area development could be on a similar scale to other new towns established in Hong Kong.
“We hope to relocate the current logistics and industrial businesses to the 220-hectare proposed reclamation land at Lung Kwu Tan, somewhere more remote in northwest Tuen Mun, thus freeing up another 220 hectares from the River Trade Terminal and its surrounding coastal land for residential development,” Wong said.
