The pleasure boat Lamma IV, and a high-speed ferry, the Sea Smooth, collided on 1 October last year.

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Later, as Asia's troubles threw this Pacific-coast province into recession, the government launched grand schemes to create forestry jobs, save lumber-mill towns, attract new aluminium smelters, build infrastructure and create a new high-speed ferry industry.

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Situated about 12 km west of central Hong Kong, the park will be linked to the airport and the urban area by a spur from the existing high-speed rail line to the airport, and by highway and by ferry.

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