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Low-lying Macau casinos urged to assess 2019 typhoon risk

Jun 11, 2019 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck  


Low-lying Macau casinos urged to assess 2019 typhoon risk

Macau’s casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, said in a Monday statement that it recently held meetings with representatives from the city’s gaming companies to discuss contingency plans for this summer’s anticipated typhoon season.

The Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau forecast in March this year that between four and six typhoons could come within an 800-kilometre (500-mile) radius of Macau during 2019. It said the first such severe storm might arrive by mid-June, and that the 2019 typhoon season might run until early October.

The local gaming regulator – also known as DICJ – advised in its latest consultation with the industry that firms “regularly assess” any of their casinos or other betting outlets that were located in what the regulator termed low-lying areas – or that could be “easily impacted” by wind and rainfall – and formulate appropriate measures to deal with the effects of a typhoon.

The casino and hotel at Legend Palace, a waterfront resort on Macau peninsula promoted by Hong Kong-listed casino services firm Macau Legend Development Ltd, was closed for nearly four weeks after 2017′s Typhoon Hato, due to flooding. Ponte 16, a casino hotel resort in Macau’s Inner Harbour district, also saw a gaming area flooded during Hato and saw resort operations badly affected. Both venues are satellite properties under the gaming licence of SJM Holdings Ltd.

The casino regulator and the gaming companies were also said to have discussed at the series of meetings the two sides’ respective experiences in dealing with the effects of the category-10 Typhoon Hato in 2017 and the similar-strength Typhoon Mangkhut last year.

Tyhoon Hato struck Macau on August 23, 2017 with wind speeds of 200 kilometres per hour (124 mph), contributing to 10 deaths in the city and leading to widespread damage to infrastructure that disrupted the city’s tourism industry for more than a week afterwards.

The day after Typhoon Hato, the Macao Government Tourism Office had reported that nearly half the 64 local hotels it had canvassed were without either power or water, or lacking both utilities.

Last September the Macau government and the city’s six casino operators agreed on an unprecedented blanket suspension of casino operations due to the passage of Typhoon Mangkhut, the second category-10 storm to have an effect on Macau in little more than year. The weather phenomenon was described by the World Meteorological Organization as the strongest tropical cyclone anywhere in the world at that point in 2018.


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