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Atkins Selected for New Chinese Port
21 Feb 2008
Atkins has been selected to design a major new container port in China. The project is at Mei Shan Island, about 25 km northeast of Ningbo and will be potentially one of the most important bonded container ports in China. A manufacturing zone will also feature, as well as business, research and design districts, and leisure facilities.
Atkins Shanghai Planning Department manager Li Xiaodong said, 'The key challenges were not only how to develop the port but how to integrate it with the other uses of the island, including significant areas requiring ecological protection.'
The team from Shanghai and Beijing beat competition from Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and China. Ningbo is in Eastern China, to the south of the Yantze River Delta. The city has a population of some 8m people.
