Container Port Traditional Geocache
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A small Tupperware container.
*** BESIDE CLIFF CACHE, ACCESS AT YOUR OWN RISK ***
*** The last few meters is not suitable to child, and extreme careful required for adult. ***
*** Hiking required to access to cache zone -
*** Not recommend to visit in rain / humidity day ***
Please bring enough drink & snack, looks like a short trip on the map, but may take 1.5-2.5hrs.
Free free to enjoy the view of Hong Kong's Container Port (Kwai Chung-Tsing Yi Container Terminals) right cache zone & on the way.
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Hong Kong is one of the busiest and most efficient international container ports in the world. It handled 21.0 million TEUs of containers in 2009, which rank no.3 in the world (2009). The port provided about 400 container liner services per week connecting to over 500 destinations worldwide.
In 2009, 205,510 ships, comprising both ocean-going vessels and river trade vessels for cargo and passenger traffic, visited the port of Hong Kong.
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The Kwai Chung-Tsing Yi Container Terminals handled 15.2 million TEUs, representing 72% of the port's total container throughput. The remaining 28% was handled at mid-stream sites, the River Trade Terminal, PCWAs, buoys and anchorages, and other wharves.
There are nine terminals operated by five different operators in Kwai Chung-Tsing Yi, namely Modern Terminals Ltd (MTL), Hongkong
International Terminals Ltd (HIT), COSCO-HIT, DP World and Asia Container Terminals Ltd (ACT). They occupy 279 hectares of land,
providing 24 berths and 7,694 metres of deep water frontage.
The water depth of the Kwai Chung-Tsing Yi basin is 15.5m. The total handling capacity of the container terminals is over 19 million TEUs per year.
Source : Hong Kong Port Development Council (visit link) (Information based on 2009 data)
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