The Kwai Chung–Tsing Yi container basin is a connected waterfront, not one dock. It has nine terminals operated by five companies, 24 berths and 7,794 metres of deep-water frontage. A vessel approaches the basin, moors at a berth and transfers standardized containers into yards and inland transport links.
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Kwai Chung’s Container Basin: A Port Built from Nine Terminals
The Kwai Chung–Tsing Yi container basin is a network of terminals, berths and deep-water frontage rather than a single dock.
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A basin of terminals
The first purpose-built terminal
Modern Terminals opened Hong Kong’s first purpose-built container terminal at Kwai Chung in 1972. Containerization changed how cargo moved between ships and land transport, and the shoreline developed around that system. Terminal operators now line Container Port Road, with quays, storage areas and supporting facilities arranged around the movement of freight.
A working waterfront in the present
In 2025, the Kwai Chung–Tsing Yi terminals handled about 9.7 million twenty-foot equivalent units, roughly 74 per cent of Hong Kong’s container throughput. The terminals occupy 279 hectares and provide 24 berths. Terminal operations are part of a wider port system that also relies on container depots and yards, vehicle parks and repair workshops, many outside the terminal area.