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The Lands Department today (May 15) announced that tenders for two petrol filling stations have been awarded on 21-year land grants at a total premium of $317.776 million.
Lot No. 1985 in Survey District No. 2 at Clear Water Bay Road, Sai Kung, New Territories was awarded to ExxonMobil Hong Kong Limited at $115.588 million, while Fanling Sheung Shui Town Lot No. 247 at Sha Tau Kok Road, Lung Yeuk Tau, Fanling, New Territories was awarded to Shell Hong Kong Limited at $202.188 million.
"Authority from the Central Tender Board was given to the Lands Department to award the two sites to the highest tenderers," a Lands Department spokesman said.
The successful tenders were submitted on an individual basis for the purchase of the two sites. These two sites are existing, re-tendered sites for the development of petrol filling stations.
Five tenderers took part in the exercise, which produced a total of nine tenders - eight for the sites individually and one for the two sites collectively as a package.
The tenderers, other than the successful tenderers, that tendered (individually or as a package) in respect of each lot and in alphabetical order, with the name of the parent company where provided by the tenderer in brackets, were:
(a) Lot No. 1985 in Survey District No. 2
(1) Chevron Hong Kong Limited
(2) Sinopec (Hong Kong) Limited (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation)
(b) Fanling Sheung Shui Town Lot No. 247
(1) Chevron Hong Kong Limited
(2) ExxonMobil Hong Kong Limited
(3) Petrochina International (Hong Kong) Corporation Limited (Petrochina International Company, Limited)
(4) Sinopec (Hong Kong) Limited (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation)
Ends/Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Issued at HKT 17:25
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