‘No mood for work’: veteran ship mechanic’s future clouded by Aberdeen marina project

David Chan, a veteran ship machinery maintenance master in his seventies, faces an uncertain future due to a marina project in Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Chan began his career in the 1960s repairing vessels in Ap Lei Chau, which was then a major fishing village. He later established his own business and relocated to the Po Chong Wan temporary industrial area in the late 1980s after the government demolished squatter huts in Ap Lei Chau. Now, one of the few remaining ship mechanics in the area, Chan's livelihood is threatened by the development.