-WS ATKINS: WS Atkins' subsidiary wins GBP 6 million infrastructure project in Hong Kong

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M2 PRESSWIRE-17 June 1998-WS ATKINS: WS Atkins' subsidiary wins GBP 6 million infrastructure project in Hong Kong (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:080698 The Board of WS Atkins plc is pleased to announce that the Highways Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("SAR"), of the People's Republic of China, has awarded Atkins China Limited the detailed design and construction supervision of a major new road, known as the Central Kowloon Route.

This GBP 380 million project will provide a trunk road connection between new land reclamation and associated developments to both the east and the west sides of the Kowloon peninsula. The Central Kowloon Route will be a toll road, in a 1.6 mile (GBP 2.6km) tunnel, which is being built to allow existing...