2.To cope with this demand Hong Kong is planning a completely new container port on Lantau Island with twice the capacity of the present port at Kwai Chung.
7.They are about 5 miles off the north coast of Egypt, near the port city of Alexandria, and run between Egypt and Palermo, on the Italian island of Sicily.
8.Each day some 180 tonnes of chemical waste and MARPOL waste are collected from 9200 waste producers and sea-going vessels calling at the port of Hong Kong are treated at a Chemical Waste Treatment Centre on Tsing Yi Island.
10.The port director, Matagi Ray McMoore, said the New Zealanders and many of the other 100 people stuck on the island had requested assistance to be ferried to Samoa so that they can catch flights home.