The River Trade Terminal (RTT) is the only

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for river

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. The operator is known as River Trade Terminal Company Limited. Located in Siu Lang Shui /

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, within

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, it mainly handles and consolidates

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and

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from

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prior to dispatch to Kwai Tsing Container Terminals and vice versa. The company was established in 1996 and the terminal was completed in 1999. The terminal occupies a site in

Tuen Mun Tuen Mun or Castle Peak is an area near the mouth of Tuen Mun River and Castle Peak Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It was one of the earliest settlements in what is now Hong Kong and can be dated to the Neolithic period. In the more ...

with 49 berths along of

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front. Its

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include

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and

Sun Hung Kai Properties Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SHKP; ) is a listed corporation and the largest property developer in Hong Kong as of 2019. The company is controlled by the Kwok family trust, largely the Kwok brothers. The Kwok family trust was set up by Kw ...

.River Trade Terminal
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* {{Authority control Ports and harbours of Hong Kong Transport companies established in 1996 CK Hutchison Holdings Sun Hung Kai Properties Tuen Mun 1996 establishments in Hong Kong