Hong Kong debates tenth terminal.

(From Lloyds List)

Byline: Sam Chambers in Hong Kong

ON ANY given day, passing the packed Kwai Chung Container Terminals in Hong Kong, observers will have noted more than just a few quay cranes inoperative. This comes as the port nailed surprise double digit growth for many months this year.

Now that Hong Kong's largest container terminal, its brand new ninth one, is up and running on Tsing Yi island, debate has turned to whether or not a tenth terminal is needed.

Chief executive Tung Chee-hwa is in favour of the development as early as 2011 likely to be away from Kwai Chung and on the territory's largest island, Lantau, near the proposed …