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| Traditional Chinese | 政府船塢 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 政府船坞 | ||||||||||
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Government Dockyard (Chinese: 政府船塢) is a dockyard of Hong Kong Government responsible for the design, procurement and maintenance of all vessels owned by the Government.
The dockyard occupies a site of 98 hectares on the northeast coast of Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong and has an 8.3-hectare protected water basin as an operational base for vessels operated by the Marine Department. The dockyard has a shiplift system and three ship-hoists capable of drydocking vessels of up to 750 tonnes. An on-line computerised information system is employed to co-ordinate the maintenance activities and support services to maximise maintenance efficiency and vessel availability.[1]
The dockyard is adjacent to Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Plant is accessible by Ngong Shuen Road.
- ^ http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/port.pdf Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]