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Overview

The Hong Kong International Container Terminals (named Kwai Chung Container Terminals until Container Terminal 9 was opened on Tsing Yi) are situated in Kwai Chung-Tsing Yi basin. There are nine terminals under the operation of five different operators, namely Modern Terminals Ltd (MTL), Hongkong International Terminals Ltd (HIT), COSCO-HIT, DP World and Asia Container Terminals Ltd (ACT). (Appendix 2) They occupy 275 hectares of land which includes container yards and container freight stations and provides 24 berths and 8,530 metres deep water frontage. The water depth of the Kwai Chung-Tsing Yi basin is 15.5 m. The total handling capacity of the container terminals is over 18 million TEUs per year.

12 The information is this section is based on the website of the terminal operators, Working for you - the port of Hong Kong: Handbook & Directory by Hong Kong Marine Department & Critical Review of Port Planning System in Hong Kong by Wong

Table 1 Development Sequence and Operators of Container Terminal 1-9

Reference: Hong Kong’s Port and Airport Development Strategy – A Foundation for Growth and the Annual Reports and homepages of Container Terminal Operators

Opening Date Operator

Terminal 1 September 1972 Modern Terminals Ltd. (MTL) Terminal 2 During 1973 Kowloon Container Warehouse

(1973)

Terminal 4 April 1976 Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.(HIT)

Terminal 5 March 1976 Modern Terminals Ltd. (MTL) Terminal 6 1st berth May 1988

2^ndberth January 1989

Hongkong International Terminals Ltd. (HIT)

Terminal 7 1^stberth November 1989 2^ndberth January 1990 3^rdberth April 1990 4th berth September 1990

Hongkong International Terminals Ltd. (HIT)

Terminal 8 Situated in northern corner of Stonecutters Island January 1994

Cosco-HIT Terminals (Hong

Kong) Ltd. (CHT) owns 2 berths in the east (CT8 E)

2 berths in the west (CT8W), which were originally owned and operated by Modern Terminals Ltd., have been taken over by ACT in April 2004.

Terminal 9 Located on Tsing Yi Island, facing Rambler Channel

The berths were completed by the year 2005.

The terminal was developed by 3 operators, (MTL), (HIT), and Asia Container Terminals Limited (ACT).

Current, HIT has 2 berths in CT9 and MTL owns the remaining 4.

Modern Terminal Limited (MTL)

Modern Terminals Limited was established in 1969 and now a major player in the Container Port industry. By 1972, Modern Terminals had built Hong Kong’s first custom designed Container Terminal. This was the forerunner of the Hong Kong container shipping industry which established Modern Terminals as the industry leader. Modern Terminals is a privately owned company with a shareholder portfolio of regional industry leaders: The Wharf (Holdings) Ltd (68 percent); China Merchants Holdings (International) Co Ltd (27 percent); and Jebsen Securities Ltd (5 percent).

The annual throughput of MTL is 5.4 million TEUs and the annual capacity reached 7 million TEUs in 2006. Moreover, MTL offers to users a total of over 1,000,000 square feet of storage space in the form of an on-terminal 11-storey warehouse building which is located in Berth One in Kwai Chung.

Hongkong International Terminals (HIT)

Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), established in 1969, is the flagship operation of the Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Group, the world’s leading port investor, developer and operator. HIT is situated in the Kwai Chung container port area of Hong Kong and one of the busiest container ports.

HIT operates twelve berths at Terminals 4, 6, 7 and 9 and another two

through its joint venture with COSCO Pacific Limited at Terminal 8 (East).

In 2006, HIT and COSCO-HIT handled a combined throughput of 8.235 million TEU, over 50 percent of Kwai Tsing’s container port traffic. The Hutchison Logistics Centre located at Container Terminal 4 with over 377,000 square metres of floor space also houses HIT’s own container freight station operations.

China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO)

COSCO Pacific Limited has a 50 percent interest in COSCO-HIT Terminals (Hong Kong) Limited, a container terminal located at Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. COSCO-HIT Terminals (CHT) Limited, a joint venture between China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company and Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), manages two berths at Terminal 8 East, Kwai Chung.

These berths have a quay length of 640 metres and a minimum along side depth of 15.5 metres. The terminal is capable of handling two container vessels simultaneously. The use of advanced computer systems and communications equipment has been used since it become operational in 1995. The Annual handling capacity of COSCO is 1.8 million TEUs in 2007.

Dubai Port International Terminals Ltd. (DPI) ¹³

DPI (DP World since 2005), one of the world’s leading port operators, announced on February 22 2005 that it had completed the acquisition of CSX World Terminals (CSX WT), the international terminal business of CSX Corporation, for closing cash consideration of USD1.142billion, subject to final working capital and long-term debt adjustments. This places DPI among the world top six port operators. The acquisition of CSX WT gave DPI a strong presence in Asia for the first time, including CT3 and CT8W in Hong Kong, Tianjin and Yantai in China as well as operations in Australia, Germany, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. The combined portfolio consists of interests in 15 operational terminals in 13 locations with a combined capacity in excess of 24million TEU. Container Terminal 3, located in the heart of Hong Kong’s Kwai Chung port, is now operated by DP World since it acquired CSX WT.

DP World Hong Kong is recognised as the most productive terminal operator in Hong Kong with an average productivity over 40 moves per hour per shore crane, handling over 1.2 million TEUs in record in a single berth.

Apart from the premier terminal service, they also provide ancillary services

13DP World was formed in September 2005 with the integration of the terminal operations of the Dubai Ports Authority (DPA), which was focused on the UAE ports of Rashid and Jebel Ali, and DPI (Dubai Ports International) which had been set up to export this success internationally.

like on-dock equipment repair and maintenance as well as dedicated vessel and cargo agency services.

PSA International Limited

In April 2005, PSA used US$4.39billion to acquire 20 percent of the equity and loan structure of Hutchison’s ports network. This agreement made PSA a partner in Hutchison’s global business, it also cemented its interest in Hong Kong’s container terminal scene. PSA has now investments in 17 out of the 24 container berths in Hong Kong’s port that stretches across a total quay length of 6,125 metres. This includes two berths at CT8 West, one berth at CT3, 12 berths at CT4, 6, 7 and 9 and another 2 at CT8 East. PSA International acquired NWS Holdings’ 33.34 percent stake in CT3 and its 31.4 percent interest in Asia Container Terminals Holdings (ACT), which operated CT8 (West).

Asia Container Terminals Ltd. (ACT)

ACT, incorporated in 1993, is the major stakeholder in the six-berth Container Terminal 9 (CT9) development at the port of Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. ACT has an interest in two container berths at CT9. After the completion of ACT’s two-berth interests at Container Terminal 9 (CT9), ACT took over the two berths at CT8W in April 2004. ACT is jointly owned

by DP World (55.2 percent) and PSA International Limited (PSA) (44.8 percent).

On December 30, 2004, before the acquisition by DP World, CSX WT announced that it had raised its stake in Asia Container Terminals Ltd (ACT) to 68.6 percent giving the Group a majority share in the operation. ACT is the owner and operator of the premier terminal CT8W in Hong Kong. The transaction was financed from a committed loan facility arranged and underwritten by Deutsche Bank AG on December 16, 2004 for USD1.45 billion.