Sham Tseng & Tsing Ma Area

Tsuen Wan District

Located north of the container port, Tsuen Wan is an industrial suburb that started with wealthy textile manufacturers setting up shop in the late 1940's. Back then, factory owners from Shanghai were desperately looking for a place in Hong Kong to re-locate their businesses, and Tsuen Wan offered the advantages of cheap land, cheap labour and relative proximity to urban Kowloon.

There is some redevelopment activity in Tsuen Wan. One of them is Nina Tower, named after Asia's richest woman, Nina Wang. Originally she wanted to build the world's tallest building on this site but because Tsuen Wan is located along the flight path to the airport her plans were scaled down to the present development.

Sham Tseng

Sham Tseng is located along a narrow strip of flat land along the waterfront facing the Tsing Ma Bridge. The area is famous for its restaurants and new residential developments are under construction in many parts of town.

Lantau Island and the Kap Shui Mun Bridge are clearly visible from the waterfront.

Tsing Ma Bridge

The Lantau Link, carries a railway as well as roads, comprises the Tsing Ma suspension bridge linking Tsing Yi to Ma Wan; viaducts crossing Ma Wan and the Kap Shui Mun cable-stayed bridge linking Ma Wan to Lantau.
The Tsing Ma Bridge has a main span of 1,377 metres and concrete towers that are 206 metres tall. Construction of Tsing Ma Bridge commenced in May 1992 and completed in May 1997. Vehicles use the top deck while trains run on the covered lower deck.

The steelwork for the deck structure was fabricated overseas, mainly in Britain and Japan. The steel was assembled in China mainland at a site beside the Pearl River near Dongguan, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Hong Kong. These sections, each weighing about 1,000 tonnes, were brought to the site by barge, lifted into position and suspended from the cables. Connection of the erected deck sections then began, along with installation of the railway tracks, and this was followed by laying of the roadway surfacing and a multitude of other finishing works.

The bridge was built by the Anglo Japanese Construction Joint Venture. This joint venture comprised Trafalgar House Construction (Asia) Limited (part of the Kvaerner Group of Norway), Costain Civil Engineering Limited of Britain, and Mitsui and Co. Limited of Japan.

View of the Kap Shui Mun Bridge at street level :

Ting Kau Bridge

The 1,177m long Ting Kau Bridge and the 500m long dual Approach Viaduct form a vital link in Hong Kong's new Route 3, connecting Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the new airport at Chek Lap Kok to the New Territories and the mainland. Two main ramps connect to the Tuen Mun Highway and the Western New Territories.
The outstanding features of this unique cable stayed bridge are the 3 towers with heights of 170m, 194m, and 158m, located on the Ting Kau headland, on a reclaimed island in Rambler Channel and on the north-west Tsing Yi shoreline respectively.
The arrangement of separate decks on both sides of the 3 towers contributes to the slender appearance of the bridge while acting favourably under heavy wind and typhoon loads. Each deck carries 3 traffic lanes and a hard shoulder. Spanning the 900m wide Rambler Channel, the Ting Kau Bridge ranks amongst one of the longest cable stayed bridges in the world


Tsuen Wan District
Located north of the container port, Tsuen Wan is an industrial suburb that started with wealthy textile manufacturers setting up shop in the late 1940's. Back then, factory owners from Shanghai were desperately looking for a place in Hong Kong to re-locate their businesses, and Tsuen Wan offered the advantages of cheap land, cheap labour and relative proximity to urban Kowloon.





	There is some redevelopment activity in Tsuen Wan. One of them is Nina Tower, named after Asia's richest woman, Nina Wang. Originally she wanted to build the world's tallest building on this site but because Tsuen Wan is located along the flight path to the airport her plans were scaled down to the present development.
Sham Tseng
Sham Tseng is located along a narrow strip of flat land along the waterfront facing the Tsing Ma Bridge. The area is famous for its restaurants and new residential developments are under construction in many parts of town.





Lantau Island and the Kap Shui Mun Bridge are clearly visible from the waterfront.

Tsing Ma Bridge
The Lantau Link, carries a railway as well as roads, comprises the Tsing Ma suspension bridge linking Tsing Yi to Ma Wan; viaducts crossing Ma Wan and the Kap Shui Mun cable-stayed bridge linking Ma Wan to Lantau. The Tsing Ma Bridge has a main span of 1,377 metres and concrete towers that are 206 metres tall. Construction of Tsing Ma Bridge commenced in May 1992 and completed in May 1997. Vehicles use the top deck while trains run on the covered lower deck.


The steelwork for the deck structure was fabricated overseas, mainly in Britain and Japan. The steel was assembled in China mainland at a site beside the Pearl River near Dongguan, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Hong Kong. These sections, each weighing about 1,000 tonnes, were brought to the site by barge, lifted into position and suspended from the cables. Connection of the erected deck sections then began, along with installation of the railway tracks, and this was followed by laying of the roadway surfacing and a multitude of other finishing works.


The bridge was built by the Anglo Japanese Construction Joint Venture. This joint venture comprised Trafalgar House Construction (Asia) Limited (part of the Kvaerner Group of Norway), Costain Civil Engineering Limited of Britain, and Mitsui and Co. Limited of Japan.

View of the Kap Shui Mun Bridge at street level :

Ting Kau Bridge
The 1,177m long Ting Kau Bridge and the 500m long dual Approach Viaduct form a vital link in Hong Kong's new Route 3, connecting Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the new airport at Chek Lap Kok to the New Territories and the mainland. Two main ramps connect to the Tuen Mun Highway and the Western New Territories. The outstanding features of this unique cable stayed bridge are the 3 towers with heights of 170m, 194m, and 158m, located on the Ting Kau headland, on a reclaimed island in Rambler Channel and on the north-west Tsing Yi shoreline respectively. The arrangement of separate decks on both sides of the 3 towers contributes to the slender appearance of the bridge while acting favourably under heavy wind and typhoon loads. Each deck carries 3 traffic lanes and a hard shoulder. Spanning the 900m wide Rambler Channel, the Ting Kau Bridge ranks amongst one of the longest cable stayed bridges in the world