29 July 1998 - Chek Lap Kok

Hong Kong’s new Chek Lap Kok airport offers us a foretaste of the Year 2000 problem. The airport’s main cargo handling company messed up its own software and can’t handle much cargo. Losses are expected to be billions of dollars.

Lawyers, mark this lesson. Shippers, freight forwarders, airlines, the airport, the cargo handler, and the final signees will all land in court. Detritivores feed well after a disaster.