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CAA says new air traffic control center in Taoyuan will be operational by 2011

The Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) announced yesterday that the Communication Navigation Surveillance (CNS)/Air Traffic Management (ATM) center, in Dayuan Township (大園), Taoyuan County, near the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport will be launched by 2011.

The center will be the "central nervous system" of Taiwan's air traffic system, the CAA said.

It will be equipped with an independent power system, including three power generators, three UPS systems and three air-conditioning systems.

Ho Chi-lin (何麒麟), executive secretary of the CNS/ATM project, said the control towers in an airport mainly regulate air traffic that falls within "5km in horizontal distance and within 3,000 feet [914.4m] vertically" of the airport.

The center, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, will be in charge of managing air traffic that is within "100km horizontally and within 20,000 feet [6,096m] vertically," he said.

The center will also be responsible for managing travel routes south of Shanghai and north of Hong Kong, Ho said.

As of yesterday, all the center's buildings are completed but not all of its large-sized machines are in place.

The CAA has completed construction of some important sub-systems such as the ATS message-handling system and an independent Backup Air Traffic Control System.

One of the renovated facilities in the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport is the airport's free-trade zone built by the Farglory Group. The free-trade zone was established to draw investments from overseas companies as well as returning Taiwanese businesspeople. Operations in the zone enjoy duty-free and tax-free privileges for all of their export goods.

The zone's chairman Yeh Chun-yao (葉鈞耀) said yesterday that 30 companies have begun operations in the zone. The applications of 10 other companies have been approved, while five companies have just applied to enter the free zone.

Yeh said that close to 36 percent of facilities in the zone's areas where the processing plants are located have been taken up.

The other facility was new duty-free shop gallery built by Ever Rich DFS Corp at the C concourse of Terminal 2 in the airport, which just began operation a year ago.

Ever Rich general manager Jack Wu (吳錫顯) said the company was granted the project based on an operation-transfer contract that it signed with CAA.

Some of areas inside the terminal have been remodeled and managed to persuade manufacturers of some internationally patented products such as Hello Kitty to set up outlets in the gallery, he said.
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