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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 p ...

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 are added adjoining to Stonecutters Island 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 container port in the world since 2019, just after

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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 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 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

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. 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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