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and Tsing Yi Island, 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 were added adjoining to

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in the 1990s and it was renamed Kwai Chung Container Terminals. In the 2000s, Container Terminal 9 on Tsing Yi Island was completed, and the entire facility was renamed as ''Kwai Tsing Container Terminals''. It has been the eighth-busiest container port in the world since 2019, just after

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, Ningbo-Zhoushan,

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and

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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, or ISO containers). Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading, is the process of uni ...

revolution in cargo handling. In early 1967 the committee declared that Hong Kong had to build the capacity to handle containers, otherwise the territory's economy would suffer and its port would be bypassed in favour of Singapore and Japan. The committee recommended the site at Kwai Chung. Two former islands on the Rambler Channel, Mong Chau and Pillar Island, were levelled and buried under the port. While the port was under construction, a main road, Kwai Chung Road, was built to connect Kwai Chung and

Kowloon Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a populat ...

. 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 the

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in 1986 as the world's second-busiest port. In 1987 it won the title of world's busiest port from Rotterdam. The sunken remains of the hull of the are currently buried beneath the reclaimed land on which the port stands.

Terminals

The port consists of nine container terminals and their operators: ^ HIT terminals 4, 6, 7 and 9 (North): 14.2 to 16.0 metres Hong Kong Container Terminal Operators Association Limited (HKCTOA)
Kwai Tsing Container Port / Port Facilities
accessed on 18 November 2024

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