Kwai Tsing Container Terminals is the main port facilities in the reclamation along

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between

Kwai Chung Kwai Chung is an urban area within Tsuen Wan New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Together with Tsing Yi Island, it is part of the Kwai Tsing District District of Hong Kong. It is also part of Tsuen Wan New Town. In 2000, it had a popula ...

and

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, Hong Kong. It evolved from four berths of Kwai Chung Container Port () completed in the 1970s. It later expanded with two berths in the 1980s. Two additional terminals are added adjoining to

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in the 1990s and was renamed Kwai Chung Container Terminals. In the 2000s, Container Terminal 9 on the Tsing Yi Island was completed and the entire facility was renamed to ''Kwai Tsing Container Terminals''. It has been the eighth-busiest

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in the world since 2019, just after

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and Qingdao.

History

The Container Committee was appointed by the Governor Sir David Trench on 12 July 1966 to advise the government on the

containerisation Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers). Containerization is also referred as "Container Stuffing" or "Container Loading", which is the p ...

revolution in cargo handling. In early 1967 the committee declared that Hong Kong had to build the capacity to handle containers, lest the territory's economy would suffer and its port would get bypassed in favour of Singapore and Japan. The committee recommended the site at Kwai Chung. Two former islands on the Rambler Channel,

Mong Chau Mong Chau () was an island off South Kwai Chung, in the Rambler Channel, Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a ...

and

Pillar Island Pillar Island or Tsing Chau was an island in the Kwai Chung area of Hong Kong, sitting at the mouth of Gin Drinkers Bay, by the side of the Rambler Channel, opposite Tsing Yi Island. In the 1960s, the bay was reclaimed and Tsing Chau became a ...

, were levelled and buried under the port. While the port was under construction, a main road

Kwai Chung Road Kwai Chung Road () is a throughway in Kwai Chung of the New Territories in Hong Kong. It is one of the busiest roads in Hong Kong. The Transport Department has classified it as a trunk road. It was built in the 1960s for the two main developm ...

was built to connect Kwai Chung and Kowloon. Container Port Road, a branch road of Kwai Chung Road, links the port with major industrial areas in Hong Kong. The first container vessel to call on the new terminal, on 5 September 1972, was the ''Tokyo Bay''. Thanks to the success of the Kwai Chung Port, Hong Kong overtook New York City in 1986 as the world's second-busiest port. In 1987 it seized the title of world's busiest port from Rotterdam.

Terminals

The port consists of nine container terminals and their operators: ^ HIT terminals 4, 6, 7 and 9 (North): 14.2 to 16.0 metre http://www.hkctoa.com/facilities Kwai Tsing Container Port / Port Facilities

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kwai Tsing Container Terminals Transport in Hong Kong Ports and harbours of Hong Kong Kwai Tsing District Kwai Chung Lai King Tsing Yi Stonecutters Island Container terminals

History

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